No, this isn't actually any rules explanation.

Instead I'm going to talk about fluff today.
In particularly fluff about gold because the concept of inducements is probably hard to grasp for many.

a) Who gives me inducement money?
The inducement money is handed out by the stadium owner. The stadium owner reaps most of the benefits by organising the game.

b) Who gets the money the spectators pay for entrance?
The stadium owner gets all the money.

c) Why does the stadium owner give inducement money?
The stadium owners interest is to make sure that the highest possible amount of spectators appears to a game. So if he has to promote a game that is very unbalanced, he will provide the supposedly weaker side with a bunch of support options.

d) How can the stadium owner afford the high prices for inducements?
He can't and he doesn't. The stadium usually employs a staff consisting of 2 bloodwiser babes, a wiz, an apo, a range of referees a range of rookie players and some other personal.
Using these types of inducements simply fall under maintenance costs of the stadium and don't cost the stadium anything to bring up in a game.

e) Why do teams have to pay so much to buy inducements?
Running a stadium is expensive. The stadium charges commercial prices for commercial services and the money gained that way helps a big deal keeping the sport alive. Usually stadiums have clauses that forbid teams to bring more than a predifined number of staff on their own to the game.

f) But what about stars?
Stars aren't actually employed by the stadium owner but by the stadium association as contract players that travel between stadiums and can be booked for fixed prices. Fungus the Loon for example earns 16,000 gold for one appearance in a stadium. Morg N' Thorg earns 86,000 gold for an appearance. If the stadium owner provides inducements he has to actually pay this price out of his income, however if he gets a Coach to request a star player he can charge 5 times the price and recieves 60% of the money as pure benefits for the stadium. 20% go towards the star (thats his contract price) and the remaining 20% go towards the stadium association.

g) What if both teams hire babes and the stadium doesn't have enough employed to provide them?
If the stadium is understaffed it can request additional staff for a small charge from the stadium association. That is usually 10% of the amount the stadium owner would charge a team for the same services. The service of a wizard for a game from the association would cost a fee of 15,000 gold for example. A lucrative buisness for casting a single spell.


h) If the stadium owner gets all the money, how do the teams get paid?
Payments are usually negotiated after the game between the stadium owner and the teams based on the entertainment value of the game and the stadiums current situation. There is no garantee to be paid well if the coach negotiates poorly but stadium owners are supposed to hand out a miminum of 10,000 Gold for a game and a minimum of 20,000 Gold for the winner.

i) Why don't I get any more money once I have a better team?
The stadium owner doesn't only pay the teams a fee but also covers for the price of the players performances. This is usually negotated as part of the teams salary with the coach. So while a better team gets in fact a lot more money for their performance, the percentage the team recieves instead of the players gets smaller and smaller. Although better teams don't always produce more spectators and larger income, the stadium owner is still required to pay more for additional perfomance executed in a game.

j) How does Spiralling Expenses work?
Spiralling expenses start kicking in when the stadium association is no longer willing to provide additional money because it has been statistically proven that teams beyond a threshold of 1750 TV as assigned by the association doesn't draw a larger amount of spectators anymore.
In addition the stars of the team usually will start to be more demanding, requesting bonuses above their ground salary after surviving a larger number of games or threaten ot wander off, although it is mandatory that they have to remain in the team for life or upon release due to contract.
The stadium owner is still supposed to cover parts of the expenses but is likely going to write it off as other expenses or blatantly charge the head coach for the costs.

k) How much does a player earn in bloodbowl?
The stadium owner pays a player usually about 5% of his by the stadium association defined team value. So a player in a team recieves actually much lower salary than a star player. The main benefit for a player is in the buy in salary he recieves for joining the stadium association that is paid by the head coach out of the teams treasury, however even there 50 % of the buy in money goes to company that trained the rookie, usually to the stadium association. A rookie human lineman would for example recieve 25,000 gold buy in money and then 2,500 gold for a game. Maintaining a full rookie team costs as much as 50,000 Gold per game. A 2000 TV team would cost as much as 130,000 Gold per game (from of wich on average 20,000 Gold would be payed directly by the head coach.)

l) How much does a stadium owner earn from a game?
That depends on the amount of spectators and what he charges. Stadiums will have a loss many times featuring games but can usually rely to make a benefit long term.
On average a ticket to a game is charged 20 Gold and the average game visited by 32,000 spectators generating an income of 640,000 Gold from of wich about 200,000 Gold will go in stadium maintenance and paid inducements, And on average about 120,000 Gold to each team& players, aswell as another 64,000 Gold to the association leaving a total of 96,000 Gold benefit for the stadium on a good day.