Ken Gilbert owns the Knoxville Warriors, a minor league baseball team in Tennessee. He wishes to move the Warriors south, to either Mobile (Alabama) or Jackson (Mississippi). The table below gives the factors that Gilbert thinks are important, their weights, and the scores for Mobile and Jackson.
|
FACTOR
|
WEIGHT
|
MOBILE
|
JACKSON
|
|
Incentive
|
.4
|
80
|
60
|
|
Player satisfaction
|
.3
|
20
|
50
|
|
Sports interest
|
.2
|
40
|
90
|
|
Size of city
|
.1
|
70
|
30
|
a) Which site should he select?
b) Jackson just raised its incentive package, and the new score is 75. Why doesn't this impact your decision in part