From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Subject: Blood Bowl -- Stadiums
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:41:57 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God


	This season we have added rules to allow a team to change the
purse of the game. The purse is based in the number of fans that come
to the game. This adds some real thinking about wether or not you want
to play at home. Home games are nice, but if the other team has a much
larger stadium that you do and they can fill it, it is oftentimes better
to play away.
	It should be noted that our league has 4 different brackets.
Every team starts in bracket D, but moves up depending on the number
of veterans the team has; 1 for C, 3 for B and 5 for A. We are think-
ing of making the requirements for bracket advancement higher, but
that is still being discussed. This is what the "Bracket Modifier"
referred to below is talking about.


                           Stadiums, Fans, and Purse

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Each team will be required to build a stadium (and can only build one
stadium). The size of stadium you build will dictate the maximum number of
fans that can attend the game. The number of fans that attend a game dictates
the size of the purse for the match. However, if your stadium is constantly
underfilled, you may find that you don't have much of a purse for the match!

NOTE: All teams must name their stadiums. The League Commissioner should have
the stadium names on file. You are free to submit blue-prints (which the
commissioner will also keep if he has them).

BUILDING A STADIUM
To build a stadium, the League Commissioner will give each team 10,000 GC.(Add
10K GC to the starting money that a teams receives.) The exact out-of-pocket 
cost of the stadium depends on the stadium size chosen. Stadium sizes range 
from 10 to 1000. The stadium size is the number 1,000s of fans that can be 
packed into the stadium (stadium size times 1,000 is the stadium capacity). 
The formula for determing the team's cost for building a stadium is 

      (Stadium Size x 200) GCs

The minimum size of stadium is 10. Use the table below to help determine the
amount of money to build a new stadium. The table only shows common sizes. You
may build any size stadium (up to the limits of your funds).

      Size           Cost       Upkeep
      ====        ==========  ==========
        10          2,000 GC    4,000 GC  Smallest
        25          5,000 GC   10,000 GC
        50         10,000 GC   20,000 GC  Normal
        75         15,000 GC   30,000 GC
       100         20,000 GC   40,000 GC  Big
       250         50,000 GC  100,000 GC  Really Big
       500        100,000 GC  200,000 GC  Titanic!
      1000        200,000 GC  400,000 GC  !!!!
      ====        ==========  ==========

Upkeep is how much is taken out of the Total Game Income to pay for opening up
the stadium (paying the cooks, ticket takers, vendors, etc.). 

UPGRADING A STADIUM
To upgrade you stadium, simply inform the League Commissioner that you wish to
upgrade your stadium and what the old and new stadium sizes are. You will be
required to pay the difference between the cost of the old and the cost of the
new. In addition, there is a construction fee of 10% of the cost of the new
stadium.

FANS AND FAN FACTOR
There are two types of fans that show up to the game: those that get into the
stadium and those that don't! Each team will have a base number of fans that
show up for the game (referred to as the Team Base). Home teams have a base of
6,000 fans, visiting teams have a base of 4,000 fans.

To the Team Base, add the following.

      (d6 + Loyalty + Number of Seasons) x 5,000

The Number of Seasons is the number of seasons that the team has finished
(regardless of how they finished). This is the core number of fans that have
shown up for the game. Finally, modify this number by your Fame, using the
formula below.

      (Fame x Bracket Modifier*)
            * Bracket A uses 500, Bracket B uses 400
            * Bracket C uses 300, Bracket D uses 200

If the match is a quarter-finals match, multiply this number by 150%. If this
match is a semi-finals match, multiply this number by 200%. If this match is
the finals, multiply this number by 300%! This is the total number of your
fans that show up for the game!

If the sum of the home team fans and visiting team fans is less than or equal
to the stadium capacity, all fans can get in! However, if the total number of
fans who show up for the game is larger than the stadium capacity, you must
check and see which fans got there first! Each team makes a Loyalty check for
their fans. If both sides succeed or both sides fail!, each side gets an equal
number into the stadium (both sides show up equally early - or equally late).
However, if one side succeeds and the other fails, the successful side had
their fans show up to the gate first! All of their fans get into the stadium
(up to the stadium capacity). Any remaining seats are sold to the other team
(if there are any!).

FAN FACTOR
To determine the Fan Factor for your fans, divide the number of fans in the
stadium by 5,000 (dropping all fractions). The result is the Fan Factor for
the match. Note that it is possible to have a 0 Fan Factor (if no fans got
into the stadium).

NOTE: After playing with these rules for a while, we decided that if
a team has 0 fans get into the stadium, they do not get Fan Intervention
for rolling a 2 on an armor check. If any fans made it into the stadium,
even if the fan factor is 0, the do get fan intervention.

THE PURSE
Each match will generate a certain amount of money (called the Total Game
Income - or TGI). Out of the TGI the stadium upkeep must be paid. Any
remaining monies (if there are any) make up the purse for the match.

To determine the TGI, simply sum the total number of fans in the stadium! This
is the number of GCs income generated by the match. Out of this money, the
stadium upkeep must be paid. If there is not enough money to pay for stadium
upkeep, there is no purse for the match! In addition, the home team must pay
the difference between the TGI and the stadium upkeep (out of their team
treasury). If the home team decides not to pay (or doesn't have enough money
in the treasury to pay), the stadium size is decreased by a d6 (to a minimum
stadium size of 10).

NOTE: The size of the purse will be known before the match begins (since fans
are determined before the first kick-off)! One team or the other may choose to
forfeit if he doesn't think the purse is worth his time!

When calculating the purse, the winning team gets two-thirds of the remaining
TGI and the losing team gets one-third of the remaining TGI. In the event of a
tie, the remaining TGI is divided equally between the two teams.

SCALPERS
If the number of fans showing up for the match is MUCH larger than the stadium
capacity, scalpers show up and hawk tickets for more than the gate is selling
them for. This does not increase the number of fans in the stadium, but does
increase the TGI for the match.

If the number of fans who show up for a game is twice the stadium capacity,
the TGI for the match is 1.5 times the number of fans in the stadium! If the
number of fans who show up for a game is three times the stadium capacity, the
TGI for the match is 2 times the number of fans in the stadium! Finally, if
the number of fans who show up for a game is four times the stadium capacity,
the TGI for the match if 3 times the number of fans in the stadium.

The maximum hawking price is 3 times the normal rate.

-- 
"Hey, Guido! It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the cheese and
you're the lemon merchant. Getit? And he knows it! That's why he's gonna kill
us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah, before he lets loose the marmosets on us! - Ren
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