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Rough 1st quarter for you...

Oooo, tough draw. Your guy loves his cup runs. He made it to the USA Cup Quarterfinals last season.

Lots of tougher draws now that the majority of the bots are gone.

NBBA - 0
II - TF, Rebels
III - DC, Roosters, BM, Ice, DEM
IV - ERG, 10inch, IYF, Phantoms,
V - Dragons, Machines
VI - 0

I think this is the week Ice Storm bows out of Tournament play.

i was looking over my attendance figures, and got to wondering about what draws fans to the different tiers.

Bleacher seats are (to me) easy to figure out. These are filled with fans who are easily excited -- the fans who hop on the bandwagon when times are good, with short memories (they only remember the game before). Price is important to them. (i still remember when i raised prices by a dollar in middle of the season -- attendance dropped by 20%.) i don't think any of this is news to other managers.

What caught my eye were the courtside seats. Quite a discriminating bunch -- play DII opponent, sold out. Play bot Cup opponent, 81%; play DIV Cup opponent, 87%. My guess is this crowd places a premium on good basketball, unlike the bleacher bums who only want to see wins.

Luxury box folks, i figure, are influenced by prestige. i have little to go on here except that i am finally selling out all my luxury boxes for the first time -- and i have had 15 boxes for maybe six seasons. i am guessing these are a function of markets, and moving up the ladder is analogous to getting a larger market (with more corporate money and so on) -- sort of like going from Eugene to Portland to Seattle to Los Angeles.

i can't figure out the lower tier crowd. they must fit between the emotional cheapskates who fill the bleachers and the well-informed sophisticates who are courtside (my Jack Nicholsons and Spike Lees). and if i can't figure out who they are, i don't know how many seats to build for them.

any ideas?

They're just waiting for your seats to be a bit cheaper. I bet you sell all 2200 if you price them at, say, $37 a seat.

i was thinking $40, but either way the revenue remains more or less the same. what i was really wondering was the characteristics of the lower tier fans -- i would suppose a mixture of bleachers (motivated by price and recent performance) and courtside (loyal, discriminating, willing to pay to see high quality basketball even if the home team does not always win).

and i wonder if fans, who want to see victories, retain interest and loyalty if the losses are close, and / or if this is a characteristic of different fan levels. i'm pretty sure bleacher bums only care in victories or losses -- even when the team is in first place (this was my experience last season). if i am right, then my luxury boxes and courtside fans will hang tough, even if i don't win another game. i hope.

obviously my concerns are a reflection of the results thus far of this season. and i read on an earlier post that fan enthusiasm that comes with promotion will start to fade perhaps two-thirds into the season.

i'm on the clock.

Let me be the first to say: Yerevan.

No more Yerevan.

Clean sweep. The Great 8 was at home and won every single game.

Last edited by AZ at 8/24/2011 12:04:43 AM

Looks like I may lose my next 5 league games

See, winning a game wasn't that hard :)

Congrats to DC for finally getting a well-deserved win!