Maintainance costs are calculated from the amount and type of seating, each having its own cost to maintain. My wages for comparison are around 9000 with 32000 staff costs.
The best advice I can give all of you before you wade in is to read the rules thoroughly, you will find most if not all of your questions answered in there.

Thank's for this Mike, and for your advice Statto.
Sounds like fun, not unlike a football manager game that are popular for the PC and game consoles.

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I've spotted a potential problem. We have 593 Club Members but only seating for 100 members. Every home match we play we are losing potential revenue as the limit of 100 seats is always filled:

09/09/2005
Attendance: 3935
Standing: 1798
Sitting: 1598
Covered Seats: 439
Members area: 100

07/10/2005
Attendance: 7276
Standing: 3534
Sitting: 3142
Covered Seats: 500
Members area: 100

09/10/2005
Attendance: 7916
Standing: 3873
Sitting: 3443
Covered Seats: 500
Members area: 100

11/11/2005
Attendance: 6544
Standing: 3147
Sitting: 2797
Covered Seats: 500
Members area: 100

18/11/2005
Attendance: 6560
Standing: 3155
Sitting: 2805
Covered Seats: 500
Members area: 100

The covered seats are also constantly filled. This begs the question: should we expand our Members area and Covered Seats? It would cost us £60,000 to add 400 seats to the Members area and take about 5 matches to pay for those costs from increased revenue. Given that we are half-way through the season and in no danger of being relegated I think we should do it. We're unlikely to be promoted so the extra revenue will help manage our debt and invest in developing the players and improving the competitiveness of our team.

If we hold our 3rd position to the end of the season we will get £35,000 prize money.

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I my self manage a team by the name of Starfire. Currently 1st in my league, lahore region in pakistan.


Just some pointers when you expand your stadium do all of the types of seatinig and standing at one time, in increments of 100. trust me it is a much better and ceaper investments and yes increase members and covered seats, brings in alot of income. This is advice from exprience.


And no the extra stats dont help much so the free version is very much a good option.

Well, this thread has gained a lot of activity overnight. A few points from my perspective:

Ground Capacity: Although there is a lot of wasted space at the moment in terms of general capacity, there has been a large increase in attendances since last year, and in general, attendances are still on the up, so a reduction in capacity is probably not on the cards. An increase in covered and members areas sounds good, but given the current financial situation, I don't think such an investment should be made until we are at least on an even keel with the finances.

Youth Squad: I have been balancing the books of late by selling players brought through the Youth Team. Every week, you can pull a player (batsman/bowler/keeper) from the Youth Squad. I make the maximum investment possible in the youth team as once you have a strong youth team, you can often remake that money by a good youth pull. As an example, young starlet Graeme Adu was a youth pull from only about a month ago. I agree with Statto that the net sessions for batting could probably be concentrated on Adu as he's only 17, he'd gain much more benefit than Binnion. In fact, I have been wondering of late whether it might be a good idea in the long term to sell Binnion whilst he is still a great player, and could garner a transfer fee of, hopefully over £1,000,000 and then buy a replacement

Dead Wood in the Squad: Although all players in the first team are 'useful', there are several pretty useless players in the squad which are just costing us money. These are Roy Mayo, Arthur Pinnock, Ryan Rafiq, Aaron Ricketts, Matt Stroud, Keith Tonge, Francis Whittington and Maurice Woozley. Also, the only half decent backup player, Tom Fife is an 18 year old 'mediocre' batsman. I'm wondering if it might be worth selling him, he should probably realise a few squid on the transfer market.

Friendlies: We should probably accept the friendly with Statto, there's only benefit to be had as players can build up form etc. and a few quid will be received through the gate. The only risk is that of injuries, and that risk is fairly low.

Finances: In terms of finances, it seems that whenever CECC have a home game, we make profit - mainly due to decent gate income of circa £40k, but when we have away games and gain no gate income is when we make a week on week loss. This probably means we are just about breaking even in terms of income annually. It would be good to get out of debt to remove the 'interest' element from the expense column

Net Sessions: As pointed out by Statto, it is a bit pointless trying to train Richard Binnion in the nets. As such, unless anyone says otherwise, I will move the Keeping training sessions to backup Keeper, Colin Kent and Binnion's batting net to Tom Fife as the best young batsman that isn't already getting net practise. Let me know if you have any better ideas.

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Cheers,

The Chairman

Andy, please correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot decrease capacity. You can only increase it. We seem to have too much capacity in Standing Room and Uncovered Seats and not enough capacity in Covered Seats and Members Area. I don't know how this happened but we seem to be losing potential revenue. Consequently, if you feel happier to reduce the current debt levels before we expand the Members Area then we should sell a player or two. I'd be happy to undertake the expansion while in debt as long as we manage that debt properly to avoid bankruptcy.

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ok i will se the website an dthought

But who? And one other thing - how are we going to come to a decision on contentious issues, is this going to be a democratic vote kind of thing; with the casting vote being made by either myself or you where the Democratic Vote ends up tied, or do you have some other idea of how to run this?

As I see it, we can either take a risky strategy and put Binnion on the transfer list, inviting offers of over £1,000,000 and then bring in the much worse Colin Kent to replace him in the short term and then invest the sales proceeds in the ground and in some better players across the team as a whole.

Alternatively, we can put Tom Fife on the list for about £20k, and also put all the dead wood on the list to see if anyone comes in for an offer - just to get rid of them. I'm tempted to sack some of the dead wood, as at the moment, they're just costing us wages every week!

The other thing that I've just noticed is since last week, the Club Captain, 19 year old Rob Wright has improved his batting to 'strong', added to his 'strong' leadership skills and 'respectable' bowling, this probably puts him up with Binnion in star player material. His battrick player rating is over 10,000 points, which is excellent. Unlike Binnion though, Wright is the future and i definately don't think we should sell Wright!

I don't think we have to vote on issues. I think anyone can raise an issue for discussion but leave the final decision in your hands or someone you nominate in your absence. Take the ground capacity, for example: any decision involves a certain amount of risk and risk-taking is an element of leadership style. If the fortunes of the club (financially) or team (winning) trend upwards then the leader of the club should continue to assert their preferences. Only when the club's fortunes fall should we look at installing a new leader with a different attitude to risk-taking. You have decided that expanding now while the club is in debt is not a move you wish to take. I accept that provided we make changes that will enable the expansion to happen by the end of the season or early next season. This may delay our push for promotion but we should get our house in order before tackling the pressures of a higher division. We don't want to yo-yo between divisions.

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Hi guys,

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