Do u guys stand to make a huge profit while staying a float in 4-5 seeds? I know competing for a championship in D2 is basically braking even financially on a weekly basis at best, the price of winning is promotion to DI, the promotion $$$ alone is worth the cost of breaking even for a season. Then the attendance boost put u somewhere around 300k per week profit For a season.
I think it depends on how much payroll you carry to stay in the 4th/5th seed range. Some will profit more than others doing that...Don't forget though...when you drop down your attendance takes a HUGE, HUGE hit...First, you simply can't sell as many seats in D2 as D1, and then just like the promotion bonus you speak of, it works in reverse too...So a lot of the $1 million you receive promoting back up, you lost in attendance revenue by dropping down. Ultra Conservative would be a drop of $100K per game...that's $1.1 mil less than you'd make by staying up....But realistically, you are going to drop more than $200K a game dropping down to D2...So dropping down to pop back up will always be a net loss...The only way tanking is productive, is to do a total tank, maximizing every dollar you can by staying under the Players Salary Floor, training young players who will have value to sell, or will cost you significantly less as the season progresses than their actual worth because of training pops.