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Yes, I was very surprised to find out I couldn't change the ticket prices when I reached the playoffs last season. I don't really understand the argument against being able to change ticket prices weekly anyway. Clubs in many sports change more for premium games (better opponents or weekend games), and every club charges more for playoff games.

If BB is really against weekly ticket price changes, a good compromise would be to set playoff ticket prices and regular season ticket prices separately.

Yes, I was very surprised to find out I couldn't change the ticket prices when I reached the playoffs last season. I don't really understand the argument against being able to change ticket prices weekly anyway. Clubs in many sports change more for premium games (better opponents or weekend games), and every club charges more for playoff games.

i would find it curious if you got 2 price one for games after an win, and one for game after a loss ;)

To manage the prices right, makes fun 2 me at the actual situation.

Come to think of it, if you made the finals last season, the games were played on April 29, May 3 and if needed May 4. So if you wanted to charge more for the playoffs, you had to make changes before April 1 during the last weeks of the regular season when demand is completely different. Then,if you wanted to continue to charge playoff prices for the finals (if you were so lucky), you had to maintain high prices and stay with these prices well into next season (for about 10 cup and regular season games). Any reasonable team will change prices between seasons if demand changes (what if you get promoted/relegated?), so the monthly changes just don't make sense.

I strongly recommend a change to deal with these issues. It doesn't have to be weekly changes in ticket prices, but there needs to be a few exceptions to the monthly ticket price policy.

Last edited by Duncan Balls at 5/26/2008 3:07:24 PM

I will repeat once more what is said various times before: there is NO difference between regular games and play-off games for attendance calculations.

The reason why it might LOOK like play-offs bring more people is that high ranked teams play each other.
Should your last regular game be against the No 2 ranked in your conference, and you are at the 3rth place yourself, you will have exactly the same amount of spectators than if it would be the first play-off game.

Therefor setting other prices for play-offs then you would for regular games would not be the brightest thing to do. You either charge to much during play-offs, or not enough during regular games if you go for this system, both situations would not result in optimal revenue... The optimal price for regular games is the exact same as for play-off games.

The reason for BB that the prices are not changeable every week is to prevent teams from setting them higher when they play a higher ranked team, and lower when the play a lower ranked team. If they have it changeable right before the play-offs, this is exactly what they would make possible...

If that is true I suggest demand be higher for playoff games.

If that is true I suggest demand be higher for playoff games.

BBs have stated that this is not going to happen right now.

I wonder they have thought about changing that based on the stage of the season, rather than calendar month.

This is wrong, I like to think every month how to change prices to earn more, for a whole season would be Arena management very boring

I wrote stage of season. Not for the whole season.

It simply doesn't make sense to start the season with the leftover ticket price from the previous season just because of when a calendar month starts.

So for example you could set prices for (1) start of season; (2) after the ASG; and (3) before the season. Or if you wanted 4 times, it could (1) start of season; (2) before inter-conference play; (3) before intraconference play; and (4) before playoffs.

Or if you wanted to make it more complicated, have separate ticket prices for the cup and playoffs.

Or if you wanted to make it more complicated, have separate ticket prices for the cup and playoffs.

that is the one with I agree (for think about), the attendeance could be different too

..could you give here any reason why should be implemented the rest?

The reason for the others changes is so that they conform to the actual season.

For example, the July setting will be for the end of the regular season and the very first game of the playoffs. You will have to set your August prices without knowing for sure whether you will be promoted or not.

With a 14-week season, and 13-weeks per 3 calendar months, they will slow drift, so that using calendar months, you will be setting prices at different times during the season. The start of the season and the ASG would be convenient times to set a new ticket price.