croverja wrote: Simon89 wrote: projectrracing wrote: i challenged a division 1 team that had a stadium of 60,XXX seats. i got smashed 56-7, but i did receive $106,XXX in ticket sales. $106,000 seems a bit low for a 60,000 seat stadium? I made around $118,000 from my 6000 stadium last week. Joys of VIP seats It was a friendly, so not everybody came, and regular seats fill first, then executive, and then VIP.

think your a little wrong on the regular seats filling first rule...

think you will find that spectator numbers are spread across all seating, dependent on the percentage of seating... so say you had 1000 VIP, 2000EXEC, and 17000 standard, and you got 10000 people turning up, you would end up with 500 people in VIP, 1000 in Exec, and 8500 in Standard..


but you are right about the point it was a friendly, and so attendance will never fill a 60k stadium in a friendly...

croverja wrote: mdjseymour wrote: croverja wrote: Simon89 wrote: projectrracing wrote: i challenged a division 1 team that had a stadium of 60,XXX seats. i got smashed 56-7, but i did receive $106,XXX in ticket sales. $106,000 seems a bit low for a 60,000 seat stadium? I made around $118,000 from my 6000 stadium last week. Joys of VIP seats It was a friendly, so not everybody came, and regular seats fill first, then executive, and then VIP. think your a little wrong on the regular seats filling first rule... think you will find that spectator numbers are spread across all seating, dependent on the percentage of seating... so say you had 1000 VIP, 2000EXEC, and 17000 standard, and you got 10000 people turning up, you would end up with 500 people in VIP, 1000 in Exec, and 8500 in Standard.. Oh yes, that is correct. The large stadiums just have a high percentage of regular seats. So the income would still be cut.

yep you got it..

VIP gives the best return on investment. Then Executive. That's all I have for my answer.

yobby wrote: croverja wrote: VIP gives the best return on investment. Then Executive. That's all I have for my answer. I dig, and that's why i'm continuing to follow the model ... but it does make me wonder. I wish we had a guy good with numbers in the house.

i pay a guy to do just that its called a CFO less headaches for me but i cant upgrade intill the offseason cause unlike these other teams that got cash coming out of there ears i only got about 3mil and plan on spending most of it this offseason on the stadium

croverja wrote: yobby wrote: croverja wrote: VIP gives the best return on investment. Then Executive. That's all I have for my answer. I dig, and that's why i'm continuing to follow the model ... but it does make me wonder. I wish we had a guy good with numbers in the house. Building too big a stadium doesn't work, so you may want to keep it low, around 40,000 seats if you plan on losing. As for a numbers guy, serrie figured out the return on investment quickly, ask him I guess. And I'm pretty sure either merc or pstimpel are good with numbers.

bro, i don't understand. how could building too big a stadium not work?