Today I had a game against one of the top 10 highest income teams in the whole of grid-iron. Why then did I receive less money from this game than I did playing against lower income teams? I've been lucky enough to receive 200,000+ from some friendly games so I was expecting at least that from todays when in reality I only got 78,000.

The reason is, as stated by masterMark, is that the game isn't sold out. In your situation there were 8.093 fans in the stands.

Now the Ironstreet Raiders have a stadium of 36.200 seats and assuming, that all the VIP and Executive seats have been build, that leaves 23.700 seats as regular seats.

The way a friendly game is filled is by percentage of the type of seat compared to the total amount of seats.

So for VIP it would have been 3.500 divided with 36.200, which is 9.7% and that results in 782 of the attending fans were in VIP seats.

Executive seats are done with the same calculation and would have been 24.9%, which would have been 2.012 fans in executive seats.

You can also calculate the regular seats, but in the end it the rest. So 5.298 fans were in the cheap seats.

This should have given you a friendly income of 78.191.

For the optimal situation the stadium would have been exactly 8.093 seats and contained the starting 1.000 regular seats, 3.593 executive seats and 3.500 VIP seats. That would have resulted in an income of 155.145.