On the other hand losing cup games does not seem to have any result on attendance.
... Doesn't solve the training minutes problem, though, but I guess that's the tradeoff with the increased money from cup games. (Well, from home cup games, anyway.)
I haven't bothered to calculate it or anything, but I have doubts that your total income for the season was higher becuase of that money. If you were forced to sacrifice even road games in your regular season it would affect attendance probably as much as you earn from those games. What good is making an extra 20k in a cup game if you lose it in revenue because of losses elsewhere?Simply put, the better your team plays the better attendance you have. Now, while focusing on home games will mitigate that problem a little bit you still will have a lesser record to overcome which will decrease attendance. On the other hand losing cup games does not seem to have any result on attendance.
See, here's my problem. I had 8 out of 10 road games in my cup run, and most (all?) of them were in default-size arenas. The income for me in those games was not good. Maybe things are a little different in the USA with more teams with expanded arenas?
Except for your last TV game at home. ...but it would seem then than as a whole you got lucky, because as has been explained you should have lost attendance because of your losses.
I think the important point here is not that I was lucky, but that my arena is too small to show the effect my losses have on attendance.Speaking of which...what have you been doing with all that extra cash then?
I think the important point here is not that I was lucky, but that my arena is too small to show the effect my losses have on attendance.