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I still think that the biggest problem is that the winners (in Div. 1) get so much more money than anyone else. It allows them to maintain much better teams than the other players which then lets them win more and so on. It would help game balance if the arena income depended less on how many games you win.

You're over shooting the combination of ticket and cup rev. I took home the sum of 1.1m in cup money last season, but the cost was losing league games and ticket rev. The last two seasons I'm averaging under 525k per home game. It's so difficult to win road games it's not possible to expect much more than 550k. Haven't even made 550 after a road game either.

If you only focus on league then you'll lose the cup and the money that comes from that.

You're an American, so sign up there, if the games bores you...

Last edited by Pewu at 2/2/2013 7:17:28 PM

Actually I didn't realize until this last two weeks how big the drops in arena income are just for taking 1 or 2 losses.

Its mostly road games. If you lose most road games, like most NBBA teams do, at best still only 3 or 3.5 overall for home games. In a perfect world you could have a strong enough team to aim for winning the road games and then cup games. That would take a team that's not just better, but much better due to the extreme effect of HCA in BB (roughly double the effect from real life/NBA).

Heres the performance of the trophy winning teams in both league and cup in recent seasons:

S21
league champ - Bullish: cup finals
cup champ - King Drive: 6th in league

S20
league - Burlington: round of 64 in cup
cup - Visionaries: 6th in league

S19
league - Boomshakalakas: cup quarterfinals
cup - Silverbacks: 4th in league

S18
league - lake merritt: cup quarterfinals
cup - milwaukee lethargy: 4th in league

S17
league and cup - lake merritt

S16
league - lake merritt: cup quarterfinals
cup - silverbacks: 4th in league

S15:
league - chicago bulls: round of 1024 (4th round)
cup - silverbacks: 4th in league

But for season 16, its clear that pulling both off is not common. Lots of league champs making it to the last few rounds, but if you dont win those you miss out on lots of cup money.

So cup winner in micronation (6 rounds) earns only 50k less money than cup finalist in USA and 350k less than cup winner in USA.

If the winner of the Cup and Div. I are the same team, how do they decide who the other team that goes to the B3 is?