Autos vs Play-off Win (1 Viewer)

Think the ways the playoffs work is the money from the semi finals and final get split around, so would be more money from being in playoffs.

We need autos though , playoffs delay end of season by a month which impacts on pre season , a month delay also has massive impact on knowing which division you are in and transfer targets.

Autos preferable

There is no prize money for winning the play offs. 50% of net gate receipts from the play off semis is split between the 4 teams taking part. The other 50% is added to the pool account. For the final 50% of gate receipts is split between the 2 teams taking part and the other 50% added to the pool account. The pool account is split evenly between the teams in the league.
As I understand it every team in league one gets the same amount in prize money. Roughly £650-700k. There is no extra prize for finishing as champions.

Play off winners = more money, but fans lose a year off their life with stress.

Champions.

Autos guarantees promotion and the extra revenue (and costs) that go with it. Play-offs are only worthwhile if you win them. There's no guarantee of that (we won them after finishing in 6th place) and given our position at the moment to miss out on automatics would be deflating and we'd likely be in a rut whereas a team below may be on the up and buzzing they sneaked in. If we then didn't win them the effect on the squad going into next season could be huge and we could end up losing some of our best players (regardless of the loanees going back).

It's too high risk. The potential downsides of the play-off lottery massively outweigh any potential extra income from the extra games and It has to be a preference to autos just for that.

Autos every time

ccfc1234 said:

Autos every time

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Every!!!!!!!