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Your prices are a bit high for div4 basketball, there is only so much a PR manager can do. Going unbeaten in division 4 will surely fill up your arena with fans at the right price. Your arena looks better built for a div3 team. I had a basic manager last season and was able to fill up my arena consistently. Of course, i was in first place half of the season though. Winning consistently makes it easier to sell out your arena. I think PR managers contribute better in terms of merchandise. I have tried experimenting on high lever PR managers only to find out winning and pricing are the two most important factors to sell out.

Alright, makes sense. I never get a high rating on the consistant star players because I always change them.

I noticed there was some talk about increase in attendance due to PR manager; however, I was wondering if it would better economically just to put your prices were they sell out. (which is where my team is at)

I saw your attendance went up? Did you upgrade your PR guy, and from what to what?

You wanna hear a shocker, I didnt change it yet. I still have a 3. I really dont know what caused the change... I have been winning more games recently, but I was playing the 8th seed and was not expecting anything high for this game. I got 170k from this game, a franchise record for ticket sales.

how is it possible for division IV team to make 170k-180k from ticket sales over there, while here in turkey div. III teams gets 150k-160k (averege) from tickets? can anyone explain?

With a 14k seat arena.

irrelevant. there are many 15k+ plus arenas here and i dont see them appealing many fans and $$'s. plus 180 k ticket income is way above average turkish div. III teams' income. i see a definete imbalance.

there are many 15k+ plus arenas here and i dont see them appealing many fans and $$'s.

Link to these teams and we will explain why, probably too high ticket prices.

There are many contributing factors. 1st, you need to have an Arena big enough to do it. Secondly, your prices have to be right. Of course, have a great fan survey will always help, along with having a good opponent.

But 1st their are some guides, I like to follow, these are not fact or written in stone or something. Each of the 5 division have an acceptable price range, from looking around and what I've seen, id range them like this.

           D.I     D.II     D.III     D.IV        D.V
Bleachers 15-20    12-17    9-13      7-12      5-10
Lower Tier 55-70   37-60    30-40     25-35     18-30
Courtside 150-200  120-150  80-120   65-110    50-90
Luxury Box 1200-1600 900-1400 700-1200 500-1000 400-800

Of course these prices, have to be in correlation to amount of seats. You can't just be a winning D.III team with 5000 seats and expect to sell out at 20$ a pop, because other D.III teams are making 100$K on their 10,000 seat arena.

This D.IV team made 170022$ And it wasn't even the Finals! http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/29052/arena.aspx

This D.III team promoted and has a winning record, but he can't sell Bleachers because they are too expensive. http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/29042/arena.aspx

This D.III team is making over 225K$ a game!http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/23228/arena.aspx Even making that much money, I'm sure if he adjusted his prices, he could possibly make even more.

You have to look at how many seats you have, the smaller the number the more you can charge, but their are breaking points. At a certain point, fans won't pay X$s for a certain division, etc.


Edit - those columns are as good as they are going to get!

Last edited by WFUnDina at 1/8/2013 6:53:26 PM

@ Manouche and WFUnDina
first i want to say i am sorry that i was agressive to you just because i was dissappointed.

now on i take your answers as an advice and enlarge my arena, lower my prices. hope to get enough $$ in return, if i can't, watch you backs i will be all over there :D.

just kidding, thx...