Dazz
Years ago
"Selling" home games?
This has been done, in one way or another, in the AFL for sometime. I wonder if it could be the answer for struggling teams in the NBL?
Say Townsville currently sell a season membership for $630 for 14 games. They drop that to say $530 for 12 games. Not sure what their average ticket yield is, but say maybe they lose $100~125k per game in revenue.
Less the venue cost for those two games, plus lost sponsorship dollars. They should however sell more packages because they become more affordable.
They then sell those games to say Perth, and one of Melbourne/ NZ/ Sydney. Basically I'm saying move a game that might get 3,000 to a venue where it gets 8~12,000. The buying club pays the majority of their extra ticket and sponsorship revenue (plus travel) to Townsville, because they are getting an extra home game. Win-Win.
The other option is that before starting a new Franchise in Hobart, buy a couple of home games from Townsville and the Hawks to judge demand for NBL.
Years back, when they were struggling at the too-small Challenge Stadium, the Cats sold home games to Darwin.