a) i noticed Jason raised ticket prices such that a full house would bring in nearly $800,000 in gate receipts. i thought this was a nice test of the attendance boost. apparently, one can raise ticket prices too much, as Jason's revenues have averaged only $515,000, which is i would think on the low end of what the attendance should bring for a large stadium.
Yeah, I outsmarted myself big time on this one :-( I figured coming off back to back promotions if there ever was a time go for max prices in D1, it would be now...but as it turns out, Max Prices are only for teams that have too few seats in a particular section so they can make up for that by charging more for their seats. Not sure why there is a mechanism to reward teams for not building an adequate size arena for the size of the division they are in, but there is.
I didn't expect to sell out with max prices, so I wasn't expecting anywhere near $800K, but I was shooting for $700K and figured if the strategy fell flat on it's face, I'd still get at least $600K. When I saw I had 85% attendance for the first game I was real excited figuring it worked, and looked forward to seeing how much my revenue would be for the game. But turns out I projected wrong in another way as well....When I did my projections, I figured I would sell a very good percentage of my Lower Tier, Court-side, and Luxury Boxes and I would take the biggest hit in my Bleachers...but as it turns out it was the opposite...I sold 100% of my bleachers, but was destroyed in my Lower Tier and Luxury Box section, and didn't fair too well in Court-side seats either.
The only good thing is that in the first trimester of the season I only have 3/7 games at home....so I can adjust prices and try to maximize my home game revenue with the bulk of my home games coming later in the season.