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34910.17 in reply to 34910.1
Date: 7/10/2008 7:37:41 AM
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sorry about the thread necromancy, but I've been told to place my question in an existing thread...

has anyone got any idea of the best ratios for an arena as yet?

I've just started selling out my basic 4500/500/0/0 arena, and am considering upgrading it if it's not going to cost me silly money.

On a related note, what about ticket prices.

I've increased the cost of basic tickets to $11, but haven't touched anything else. What kinds of levels are achieveable for a team likely to get relegated from II this season?

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34910.18 in reply to 34910.17
Date: 7/10/2008 2:11:05 PM
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It appears that you can only sell a tiny number of Luxury boxes, but the attendance is steady. I have literally increased my luxury boxes in increments of 2, and the attendance has never declined. Whenever the two new seats are sold, I build another 2. I don't know how many you can build straight away, My very first expansion was to 5002, with just the two luxury boxes, and I have increased a bit ever since.

The courtside seats are similar, but they are less than 2% of my seats. The bleachers are much more volatile, but if they are consistently selling out, you are probably very much under your potential in the more expensive seats. If I were you, I might boost my ticket price on the bleachers, and build some more expensive seats and see how they do.

I typically consider expanding after every TV game, and sometimes toward the end of the month when I am setting my new tickets. If I'm consistently coming up short up capacity, I'll drop my ticket price a bit in that section. If I'm filling a section or coming close, I'll either expand that section or raise the ticket price.

The ratio of seat cost/ticket cost ranges from 12.5 to 16.7 in my sections. That probably isn't an accident, the ROI has to be about the same across all ranges.