 If you are running a three-on-three basketball league, one of your biggest expenses is going to be your facility fees. So you might be asking yourself, how much should I budget? How much should I spend on facility fees each month to run my three-on-three basketball league? And I wanna get into that question today and have you actually think about it in a little bit different direction. I'm gonna give you a tool to help you with this. So I'm gonna flip my screen around. We're gonna look at a couple of examples of leagues that we've run and how the facility fees play into all that. And then I'm gonna get you some good stuff afterwards so you can play around with this. So let's flip the screen. First of all, I wanna just look at one of our facility invoices. This is a facility we use for two different leagues in the year, one in June and then one in August, September. So here you can see the four dates of our league. And this was in 2023. So we just ran this this past June and you can see our rate for our facility is $150 an hour. This facility, it's an amazing facility. We actually have six full courts that we're paying $150 an hour for. So they charge us $25 for a full court, which means we have 12 baskets and each basket's gonna cost us $12.5. And that's an important number that we're gonna use here in just a second. So we have these four dates. We're paying $150 an hour. Our league's gonna be four and a half hours. Our total facility fees were $2,700 for this league, this past June. All right, now this is a great facility. It has, like I said, 12 half court baskets. It has a nice space for spectators. We've got tables in the foyer area. We have a nice music system so we can play music during our games all of the courts have plenty of space and they all have the right lines, out of bounds lines, free throw lines, et cetera. So this is a wonderful space that we get to use. This is what our schedule looked like on one of these dates. So you can see we had 12 courts or 12 baskets. You can see which teams are playing on each court. When you do your scheduling you're gonna help your facility costs if you leave your blank spaces at the beginning or the end so the refs don't have to come and then have a break or whatever. You just have them work straight through and then they can leave early if they're over here on this court. The reason we have court one and two open here for the first few rounds is because we are running a K through three clinic on those courts. So that's why we didn't have three on three games but that's what our schedules look like. Let's take a look at a tool that I'm gonna give you access to. This is an estimated profit calculator. And if you use this tool you're gonna be able to play around with some variables that will help you figure out your expenses and your total profit or estimated profit based on things like your facility fee. So in this example how much does your facility cost per half court per hour? So remember we were paying 25 bucks an hour for a court that means 12.50 for a basket. We had 12 baskets in this situation. The hourly rate that we paid our staff and I put $28. We have beginning like high school refs where we're gonna pay them currently in 2023. We're paying them about $20 an hour and our certified staff might be making as much as $30 an hour. So we try to balance it with some new staff and experienced staff. This number is gonna change obviously depending on where you live in some places things are more expensive in some places things are cheaper but you're gonna just have to be the expert in your community and then you're gonna use the relative cost of what things cost in your community to kind of play with this. We get a pretty good t-shirt price because of the number of shirts we get. You maybe won't be able to get t-shirts for $6 but in our situation that's about what we're paying. For a four week league in 2023 we're charging $255 a team. That's for early bird. If they sign up after early bird which a big percentage of teams will do we charge another $15. So many of our teams were paying $270 and I put 118 teams here for how many teams we want. If we pop over to our 2023 Maple Grove three on three basketball league you can see we had 118 teams in this league. All right and the interesting thing is a year ago in 2022 this exact same league had 102 teams. So we are just seeing tremendous growth in all of our leagues. This represents a 17% growth from 2022 to 2023 in this one league. All right let's go back to our calculator. Okay so that's where I got the 118 teams. So when you plug in all these variables this calculator is going to figure out how much money you're spending, how much court time are you gonna need with this many teams if you have this many baskets and if you're paying this many staff members to work it's also factoring in that you're gonna have a site director there as well too. So it does some fancy math for you. And if this is a four week league you're gonna see we're gonna bring in $30,000. All of our expenses including our facility and staffing and shirts is 12,000 and our profit for this league was a little over 17,000. Roughly it might have been a little bit more because we actually have an upgrade opportunity on getting dry fits where they pay a little bit more and also remember you have quite a few teams that are gonna pay that extra signing up after early bird fee but this is a pretty good estimate that we made over $17,000 on this four week league. All right so and if we wanna just kind of see we didn't change any of these variables from last year so last year what did I say we had 101 teams okay so then we made 15,000 last year so we saw a 17% increase in profit just because we grew the number of teams. Now you might be saying well Christie we can't get a facility for 25 bucks an hour on our for a court here where I live and I know I realize that in some places things are more expensive so all you need to do is let's just say you're paying $50 an hour that means you're paying $25 an hour for a half court let's just say all the rest of your variables are the same okay so now instead of oh wait let's change this to the 118 that we have instead of the $17,500 you're making $15,000 so you're losing $2,500 about with that double the cost on your facility so if that number is fine for you then that facility price is reasonable and I think you should pay that if this is the kind of profit you're gonna see but if this number, this bottom line isn't what you need it to be then you're gonna go in and you can adjust your how much you're charging per team and here again you need to be your community expert on how much things cost so if you do the math if you charge a team $255 and the teams either usually have four or five kids on it and they're coming for an hour each week to play basketball games figure out what each family's paying per hour I think this math is gonna show you that a family's paying $15 a week for their kid to come and play an hour of basketball well let's take a look at what parents are willing to pay for camps so here is the Timberwolves and Lynx basketball camps for this summer so if you look at this 2023 camp they're running at four days for six hours and if you figure out how much they're paying per hour for their kids to be at this camp you're gonna see that they're paying just over 13 between 13 and $14 an hour to put their kid in a camp so if they're paying $14 or $15 an hour to be in a three on three league we're right on target with our pricing here so you can kinda just play with these variables now this facility that we're using this Maple Grove facility we run a second league each August, September and this is our 2023 Osio Maple Grove League this registration's still open so we've passed Early Bird the final registration ends in six days so we still have like a little bit less than a week this league in the past has been our biggest league we've ever run where we had 181 teams at this league so we could go back to our profit calculator same facility we're paying $12.50 for a half court per hour we have 12 baskets all these numbers stay the same we are charging it's a five week league so we're charging a little bit more and the year of our biggest league we had 181 teams so let's just see it's not a four week league we gotta scroll down to the five week league that league estimated profit was over $26,000 again if those numbers this bottom line isn't working for you then you're just gonna have to go in and try some different things here until you're seeing the number that makes sense for you to run a league now keep in mind my estimated profit calculator is only including the expenses listed paying your staff, paying your facility paying your t-shirts those are the big expenses you might have some other expenses for your league like having your website or an email service or your online registration fees things for running your business are also going to play in here but at least you can get a general idea of the amount of profit and when you're seeing these facility costs some people get really frightened by them but if you use this tool you can see how it makes sense okay so I hope that demo was useful for you and you saw how the estimated profit calculator tool can help you determine what you might charge for your three on three basketball league registration fees so that it makes sense with the expenses that you anticipate having with your league if you enjoyed this video and you would like to learn a little bit more from me about what we're doing with our business Midwest three on three we run over 35 three on three basketball leagues every year we've been doing this since 1997 we have over 14,000 players playing in our leagues and like I was showing you we are seeing crazy unprecedented growth right now with more and more teams signing up for our leagues as people are learning how much they love to play three on three so if you want to learn more about our proven system and you would like to follow a step by step process to get three on three basketball leagues up and running and profitable in your community please enroll in one of my free trainings there's a link below and I would love to work with you and support you and help you get on this journey of running three on three basketball leagues see you soon