Adamopolis Smegheads
The Adamopolis Smegheads
10 Oxygen Avenue, Adamopolis
Industry: Athletic Entertainment
Entity type: For-profit
Product: Sportsball, professional
Home Attendance: 2,431,900/AU
Revenue: 933,800μ/AU
Ticket Price: 0.24μ
Personnel:
- 45 active athletes
- 52 standby athletes
The Adamopolis Smegheads is a professional major-league sportsball club based in Adamopolis, affiliated with the National Sportsball League.
The Smegheads is a for-profit corporation, owner of the 199,000-seat Smeghead Stadium at 10 Oxygen Avenue. The team hosts an average of 16 home games per season.
Smegheads Stadium is a semi-enclosed outdoor facility, with spectator seating which is protected by a transparent roof that allows natural solar light into the stadium to illuminate the field. Gameplay takes place on an outdoor field which can be adapted for two to five-sided play. Games can take place with a roof over the field during times of inclement weather.
The Smegheads employs the athletic talent of 97 total athletes, 45 of whom are active players during the season and 52 of whom are serve on a standby basis. Active Smeghead athletes earn a salary of 600μ/AU while standby athletes earn about 150μ/AU.
As with much of professional major-league sportsball, up to two-thirds of the games that the Smegheads play in any given season are three-sided games—played against two other teams with all three teams on the field at the same time. As a result, the club plays only roughly 16 home games per 45-game season.
The club has enough athletes to field two fully-staffed games concurrently, which is a common occurrence—with occasional game days in which the club's "A" team plays a two or three-sided home game while the "B" team plays a three-sided away game. "B" teams exclusively play three-sided games. Frequently, standby athletes are activated to play a game supplementing one or two of the "B" teams so that "A" team players do not become too exhausted from a frequent game schedule. The Smegheads' "B" team will generally play only the "B" team of another club. For games staffed by "B" teams, ticket prices are discounted accordingly.
The Smegheads earn a revenue of 933,800μ/AU from an average home game attendance of 2,431,900/AU. The majority of revenue comes from ticket sales averaging 0.24μ per ticket, while the club earns a minority of revenue from licensing deals—mostly for broadcasting rights for coverage the games. Prior to the dawn of the age of broadcasting in Illuminatia, the Smegheads developed a semi-exclusive partnership with the Adamopolis Times that continues to this day. As a part of this preferential arrangement, the newspaper gets favorable access to the team and its athletes and is provided with detailed information relating to gameplay on a timely basis—an arrangement no other newspaper is able to enjoy.
The team's mascot is Rimmer the Smeghead.