Finally someone who understands and provides some worthy counter arguments. (@Phi 21)

The seasom ticket holder argument does not work. The game does not consider that sort of thing at all - if it did then the calculations would take that into account. Again, if 1750 VIPs where going to turn up to a 132500 stadium then that's all the VIPs that are going to turn up in any stadium. Saying that Exec and norm people would suddenly be willing to pay VIP prices is a stretch. You might get a few that would normally be in the Exec seating spilling over and a much lesser percentage of norm. Supply and demand also involves what people are prepared to pay.

The hamstringing of noobs is easily avoided in other ways. Give us a bigger starting stadium or whatever - that's easy to get around.

Speaking of hamstringing noobs, I am lucky to be starting out in the sparsely populated Oceania. Central Europe has 6 divisions so no matter how good you are you're years from TD. Imagine when some of the regions have 9 divisions!

Form of the teams you are playing has an impact too

Ok, todays game was with a div 1 team, at their 132,500 stadium on a sunny day - crowd = 9715

Last week I played a div 2 team at their 110,000 seat stadium on a rainy day and got a crowd of 15,697.

Only difference I see is that there is a larger split in rank between me and this div 1 team.

Is that it? Do you get lesser crowds to percieved greater mismatches?