Arenas

The peak of basketball - the match - takes place in arena. If appropriate arena is used, a club may get additional income or create atmosphere that will scare opponents.

Every club owns a small arena (which is also a court for training). As this owned arena is not big, most of the clubs have to rent additional arena/arenas that will be used for playing league matches. Club can have few contracts with arenas at the same time. Arena's size and features influence income from match and home advantage. Of course, arena's size and features also influence the price of rent.

Types of spectators:

• fan - comes to the match whenever it is possible. They do not care about the features of arena. The number of such spectators is not big. It depends on team's fan club and the league of the match.
• common - supporters of the team that tend to visit matches if conditions are good. The number of common spectators depends on the image of the club and the compatibility of arena.
• casual - visits the match few times in the season. The number of such visitors depends on the strength of the teams and arena's comfort.

Features of arenas:

• Compatibility - with club's colours, dislocation. It influences the number of common spectators.
• Comfort - how comfortable arena is for spectators (chairs, screens). Has big influence on the number of casual visitors.

Good atmosphere in the match brings bigger home advantage. Sometimes it may become the key  to victory. Atmosphere in the match depends on:

• how full the arena is (the less free seats, the better atmosphere)
• number of spectators (the more spectators, the better atmosphere)
• number of fans and common spectators. Casual spectators are quite passive during the match, therefore they have almost no impact on the atmosphere of the match.

Rent of arena

Arena may be rented at any time of the season and it can be used for playing match just after signing the contract.

When renting arena, the following parameters have to be indicated:

• Arena's features - compatibility and comfort. Depending on the type of spectators that tend to visit club's matches most (common or casual), it may be worth to invest in one or the other feature.
• Number of seats - what size arena is needed. Interest in matches (displayed in the schedule) may help to make the decision. It shows how many spectators would come to the match if it is played in arena of average features (value 7) and with average price tickets.
• Minimum number of matches - how many matches will be surely played in this arena till the end of the season. The more matches are planned to be played, the cheaper is price for one match. Though if too big number of matches is agreed, in the end of the season the club will have to pay fine for matches not played (fine = no. of matches not played * price of one match). Therefore, manager has to make the decision carefully, considering the number of matches that can be played in arena of this size (most clubs will probably rent few arenas of different sizes).

Contracts with rented arenas are automatically cancelled in the end of the season. If club hasn't played the agreed number of matches, it has to pay the remaining sum (no. of matches not played * price of one match).

Contract with arena may be cancelled manually during the season (in club's arenas page). If club wants to cancel contract and hasn't played agreed minimum number of matches in that arena, it has to pay a fine. If no match has been played in the arena, fine is quite small. The more matches have been played in the arena, the bigger is the fine for cancelling contract.

Contracts with arenas can be signed for the next season in advance. In the last week of the season, arena can be rented for the upcoming season (additional option in the page of renting arena).


Setting arena for the match

Different settings can be set for each league - arena and type of tickets. These settings can also be set for particular match in the page of schedule (PREMIUM users can make individual settings for any match in the schedule, other users - for the nearest matches).

If it is necessary, club can adjust the number of spectators by increasing or decreasing the price of the tickets:

• Cheap tickets - common spectators will not miss a chance to visit the match. It will increase the atmosphere of the match but won't be useful financially.
• Expensive tickets - some part of common spectators will not come, therefore the atmosphere of the match will be worse. However, such strategy of tickets is most useful financially.

Note. Even if the number of spectators is the same, either better match atmosphere or bigger income may be received. For example: Interest in the match is 7000 but arena has only 5000 seats. It is very likely that there will be 5000 spectators using either type of tickets (cheap or expensive). However, if cheap tickets are used (more common spectators), match atmosphere will be better. If expensive tickets are used, there will be more casual spectators that do not create such a good atmosphere.