usa has website with a tab called "attendance helper". the charts at this website do not indicate if the teams tabulated are just usa or the entire world, but the usa is a large sample at any rate
you could use those extra lower tier seats to make extra gate revenue now before you promote, the only question is how soon the money spent would be paid back in higher profits. unfortunately the 5k seats beyond 10k in the bleachers will start to be transferred to the lower tier the more lower tier filled seats you fill (beyond 5k) at the "correct"/optimal price (up to 10k lower tier seats, up to 5k transferred tickets from the bleachers)
the usa charts calculate the optimal price (using curve fitting) even to the point where sections that size have not been built (using extrapolation). in all cases the gate is bigger the lower the section price (provided it matches the optimal/curve fitted price). the only limitation being the largest allowed size for a section (box 50, court 500, lower 10k) or the 20k total attendance practical limit (which implies a max of 10k bleachers for div 5 to div 1). since apparently there are few arenas with more than 4k lower the usa chart for lower does not go above 4k (even though 10k is the max for lower tier seats)
in lower divisions in some cases the optimal price falls below the min ticket price for that section. in those cases obviously the max section size is not what is the most desirable (unless building for the future to enter a higher division)
Last edited by joelwest at 9/10/2012 2:41:53 AM