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Did a bit of financial analysis on the league. I compared avg gate receipts and current salary by team, and then used the league averages for merch/staff/infra/scouting, along with team-by-team adjustments for merch based on who is likely to have better or worse merch than the league average. It left me with some interesting takeaways and a big question about the sustainability of the top team in each conference...

The league on aggregate is in a better position financially this season than last. Last season, the league in totality was consistently running a deficit and I estimated that 8 of 16 teams were negative net income per week. That is likely in the 5-6 range this season, with fewer teams losing 50K+ a week.

There look to be 2 teams that are running drastic deficits: Alaska Alphas and NY Nugs. I estimate they are both losing around 70-100K a week depending on how high their merch is and how cheap they are going on staff/scouting. Are they prepared to lose another 500K+ the rest of the season to try and promote?? Looks like it given Alaska just upgraded to a more expensive big... but at least one of them will be left unsatisfied by the end of the season

EBW is killing us with his arena. Somehow he is racking up 400K a game which is closer to NBBA gate receipts than it is to a standard D2 gate receipt. Even though his team cracks 500K salary, he is comfortably making profit every week, I estimate ~50K. The promo bonus is treating him well, and he must have a good PR manager or a TV/Radio station.

Our 3 tanking teams (Finisher, Forza, Goofily) are comfortably making 100K+ a week, a few may even be at 150K+. Serene Wolves looks to be joining them after selling off 3 starters with 2 more on the TL.

White Mambas and EDH Wolves are both negative weekly profit while being more likely to be an underdog in a relegation series vs making the playoffs. I'd guess both will make some changes at some point, whether it is a full tank like Serene Wolves or just selling off 1 piece to reduce the wage bill.

I am hoping to go bankrupt

I guess the refs had money on Chunks tn. lol. Smh.

This is interesting! Nice analysis. Obviously no secret I’m all in this season, but I’m fine with sharing a little more on where I’m at. I’m currently pulling in 115-120k/week of merch (all-American roster is huge for this), and I cut down to $0 combined scouting and infrastructure for this push although I’m still paying a decent chunk in staff wages. Overall I’m running about -$85k deficit each week, which is mostly neutralized in any week where I can win both cup and BBM. My cup run is likely to end here on Thursday though at which point I’m gonna trim a couple of scrubs, but I’ll still be somewhere around -$70k weekly. I have enough banked to suffer through it for this season but if I don’t promote it’ll be full rebuild time.

Last edited by Nick22 at 7/14/2024 3:36:56 PM

I'm on the inverse-square law financial plan, my attendance has gone form 376 to 363 to 338 as my league position improves.

Some tough draws for II.2 in the cup this round! I am matched up with our champ from last season who promoted up to NBBA, Rhino's Rage, and EBW and LA Lions drew each other. So much for a long cup run for me, I thought the schedule shook out well where I could not throw league games and still win cup games, but the best laid plans...

...I’m a bit more worried that your scorer is matched up against my C in M2M…

I'm guessing I'm in for quite a bit of this, oh, in a about ten minutes... *sigh*

edit: I ran out of tokens but my box-and-disasters were a little disconcerting

Last edited by Harold Miner at 8/10/2024 7:53:15 PM