Hi all.
I wonder why there is no money got from attendance in cup games, besides (or at least instead of) the static revenue of $50K in most rounds? In the real world, cup games gain a lot, especially to the small teams when they have the opportunity to face big ones. It should be splitted between both teams, either equally or like in playoffs (2/3 for home team and 1/3 for visitors).
in germany(RL) they give up the cup, because it don't generate money at all and replaced it with a tounament of the best clubs of the first league and many other countrys in europe make the same step in the past because it don't generate that much money.
But the problem here was that you can not combine that with the draw, if i had a homegame i would generate 550k(1/3 ~ 180k) if i play away i maybe my opponent could generate 120k(i get 40k) with a even taffer competion ;) So the difference betewen a home and away draw would be huge, and could affect heavily the competion(also for the small teams who could lost at my place, where other teams in their league need 5 round to make the same money).