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still it's expensive for me. I'm not sure if I can survive the league or not economically, lol.

As Perpete said (it is too late now and will have to wait) you should increase your seat prices. Even with a small arena and you can make 400k in D1. As soon as you can, set the bleachers at $20 (max) and they will sell out easily. Set LT at $70 (max) and they will also sell out. Lower Tier you can probably set it at over $160 and still sell out. Finally, I think your 22 Boxes can probably sell out at $1200 and probably more.

You have 3 weeks to check what other newly promoted teams in Japan or elsewhere can sell at what price. The next Price change is taking effect on 27/9.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/3/2016 3:48:51 AM

oh, dear. I wanted to know such info early before today, lol. such highly prices are, however, sold out? I was just following the recommendation as buzzer manager stated. let's see at the next price change.

You got a promotion bonus and that is huge. Even without bonus, you can sell out bleachers at $20 with a 14k-15k arena (so you can safely assume your bleachers should be at $20 for some time).

I'm sorry I didn't see your post before. I recommend you find 4-5 newly promoted teams in other countries and check what their prices are and how much they sell. So you can get it exactly right next time you can change prices in 3 weeks.

Arena v price comparison works this way:
Boxes: the number of seats to keep in mind is just the boxes sold per level of price set
Courtside: the number here is the Boxes+Courtside sold, because if you can sell 10 Boxes at $1000 and 150 LT at $150, you would also sell 160 Courtside at $150 if you had no boxes.
LT: Boxes+Courtside+LT sold
Bleachers: all seats sold

As I said I'm pretty comfortable that at least Bleachers and LT should be at the maximum or near it. Courtside I'm not sure, but if it's not the max it should be fairly close. Boxes (at 22 like you have) are debatable and require some research.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/3/2016 4:26:43 AM

How do I know if they are newly promoted to the Div.1 or not?

Unfortunately there is no easy way. You just have to go in your country page: http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/53/overview.aspx and select another country and then the highest division. Once there you can check the s36 teams against the s35 ones and hopefully you will find the 4 who promoted. Alternatively check the champions of each the D2s. Do this for 4 or 5 leagues and you will have a good enough sample. Hopefully you will find teams with medium size arenas that can be of help.

LA-Bernspin is a good example for you though as he just promoted this season and his arena is not much larger than yours:http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/65708/arena.aspx
He maxed out all the sections

Another thing you could do is to fire your PR manager now and then rehire a new one in 3 weeks before the next price change takes effect. I think at your current prices you're going to sell out irrespective of PR. If you fire him before Monday you will not pay the severance fee and his salary but only his severance fee.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/3/2016 7:21:18 AM

hmmm...it's a bit of work then, but
(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/65708/arena.aspx)
is a good example. it shows I don't have to follow the buzzer manager's suggestion.

I can't understand PR manager thing. What's your suggestion? Do I have to hire competent one, instead of current basic PR?
or, basic PR isn't good enough?
I think I don't have enough money for it, though, because I'm going to use money to expand my arena.

Pr manager is very useful when your arena is not full. In your case, there is no need.

Just fire your current PR manager. it won't help you in any way to fill your arena and the bonus they provide (it they have a specialty) is minimal.

So fire him today then hire a new PR manager when your new prices will start. I'm not sure a PR manager will be needed even then with such a small arena but you will have to decide when the time comes.

I suggest you fire him today so today you pay his severance fee today, however tomorrow (monday) you will not pay his salary and will pay only 2k for the default staff guy. If you fire him tomorrow you pay his salary in the economic update and then you will also pay the severance fee, so you will pay double the money if you fire him tomorrow instead of today. Hope it makes sense.

Obviously if you have a lvl 6 PR manager on 18k salary you paid 1.5 million for, maybe reconsider, but if you have a lvl 3 or 4 you have no reason to keep your PR manager at the moment, as it won't cost you a lot to replace him in the future and in the meantime you will not pay his salary

ooops, too bad I didn't see your post before monday, but I fired my PR manager as you suggested.
It, however, raised another question to me. How much staff skill level is effective enough for PR and Docter?
It's going to different question than title, so I'll make another thread because as far as I know, there is no such topic in the forum.

The impact of a PR is not clear to anyone. Some people suggest a higher level PR might not bring in enough extra revenues to justify his higher salary. It has never been definitively proved either way. My personal opinion is that the PR has an effect, probably enough to justify higher salary but for 99% of the teams it is not significant. Presumably if you have NT players who bring in higher merchandising, the PR manager will boost that too, so there the benefit should be clearer.

The doctor on the other hand is key for 2 things:
1) Reducing injuries obviously. This is also anecdotal evidence, but higher doctors usually lead to fewer permanent injuries and shorter injuries as well. It's likely that the doctor level determines the length of the injury, so if they shorten it enough it goes below the level where it becomes permanent and the player is ready to play again after the game. The effect is there, I think Advanced or Competent (if you feel lucky) is the most cost effective and in particular if you have top tier trainees, you will not want to be cheap on the doctor.
2) Massage specialty. This affects the GS especially for players who play more than the optimal minutes. Personally I think the most important specialty among all staff, followed by Fitness, Career Extension and the 2 small bonuses the PR can grant.

So if I were you, considering you have the issue of the arena and small profits, I'd go with competent with massage specialty. You might probably get one for less than 10k salary per week without spending a fortune. In general terms I'd go for Advanced/Massage.