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.aspxThis 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.aspxThis 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