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What's everyones thoughts on this?

I imagine 1-4 seeds would hate it while 5-8 seeds would love it. I do think its more realistic since opposing teams usually get tickets to sell as well.

It should be like a boxing match - both sides get something from the gate receipts. The Home Team should get to keep all concessions (spoils of hosting the game).

Distribute Ticket sales like so:
20% off the top to the Home Team - (spoils of hosting game)
80% split between the winner/loser in a 70/30% split

e.x. with a $4,000,000 ticket sales

Home Team Wins: All concessions+800K off the top+2.24Mil for winning the game. 3.04 Million in ticket sales.
Home Team Loses: All concessions+800K off the top+960K for losing the game. 1.76 Million in ticket sales.

Visiting Team Loses: 960K ticket Sales
Visiting Team Wins: 2.24 Mil in ticket sales.

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To the victor should go the spoils (ticket sales) - and right now if a lower seed beats a higher seed they get nothing and the loser gets everything.

An 8 seed under the current system could go on to win the whole enchilada and actually lose money (salaries > winning bonuses) - all the while the losers were raking in 10's of millions. It needed to be fixed.

I'm for it but think it should be just like in real life - the visiting team gets the revenue associated w/ any tickets sold for the visitor section. That's it. I recognize that in GLB that'd be roughly half the stadium, but think Bort could put some code in to reduce it by a percentage, like 80% or something.

It should work something like the NFL (this is just ripped off a news blog so it might not be worded exactly right)

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During the regular season, home teams get to keep two-thirds of the ticket revenue, the remaining third goes into a pool shared by all other teams. The NFL keeps all ticket revenue during the playoffs, but home teams can keep money made off other stadium related sales, merchandise, concessions etc. etc. The NFL pays division winning teams a flat fee of $580,000 and other teams $500,000 in the first round. In the second round, each team gets $580,000 and in the championship round $960,000. The Super Bowl winner receives $3.5 million and runner up $2.59 million

Now i say you combine the way the regular season and playoff works. I dont like the fact that the NFL is keeping all the revenue from the ticket sales, so this is what i would do.

1. Home team gets 2/3 the ticket sales with the other 1/3 going to the visiting team
2. The winning team would get 1.5x more money than the loser for the round (so if its the first round then the winner would get 150,000)
3. Home team would keep the concessions/merchandise profits

If we're going a 75/25 split between higher/lower seed, I'd have no problems with it. In addition, home side keeps concessions.

This way, this way, teams will battle even just to sneak in at 8th, whereas the financial side will still be in favour of the higher side as a reward for doing well in the regular season.

I've felt it was not fair to the teams that made the playoffs (seeds 5-8), and get knocked out in the first round to only come away with 100k. Though the home teams will get less money, at least the playoff teams will get extra cash to expand their stadium, and improve their roster.

In the NCAA, the reason there are conferences, is the teams that don't do well in a paricular season, will still get some postseason income. Bowl teams get to keep 50% of their share, while the other 50% goes to the conference, to be shared amongst everyone else. I would not mind seeing a system simular in place, provided the chamionship game is played at a neutral site stadium with max seating. Concessions can be shared by the two teams in the championship.

PSH i dont want to share my hard earned winnings!