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Delivery ratio on three partners: the whole arithmetic on one page

The complete sponsorship delivery ratio calculation on three partners at two thirds of a season, small enough to check by hand: each partner's contracted assets and fixtures, rate card per asset per fixture, units delivered from the delivery log, delivered value at rate card, contract value, the delivery ratio, the expected ratio from the package discount, the gap in points, the unconfirmed fixtures that count as neither, the make-goods owed with a third of the season left, and the assertion that delivered units never exceed capacity, so a reader can reproduce every figure and then run it on their own contract file and delivery log.

The short answerThree partners, twelve home fixtures, eight played. Each partner's contracted assets have a rate card value per fixture; the delivery log records units delivered per fixture. Delivered value is units times rate card; the delivery ratio is delivered value over contract value; the expected ratio at this point is one over one less the package discount, scaled to eight of twelve fixtures. Partner A is 15 points under expected with two fixtures unconfirmed in the log; partner B is 22 points over; partner C is on expected. A's make-goods are owed and can still be delivered in the remaining four fixtures. Delivered units never exceed capacity. Every number can be reproduced by hand.

The delivery ratio is delivered value at rate card over contract value against what the discount implied, and on three partners it can be done by hand, including the unconfirmed fixtures. This page works the rate card, the log, the ratio, the expected ratio, the gap, the make-goods and the assertion. Fixtures played: 8 of 12.

The contracts and the rate card

Partner Assets, per fixture Rate card per fixture Contract value, season Package discount
A LED 5 min; west board; 20 hospitality seats $12,000 + $4,000 + $6,000 = $22,000 $200,000 25%
B East board; 10 seats $5,000 + $3,000 = $8,000 $60,000 20%
C LED 3 min $7,200 $70,000 10%

Full-season rate card: A $264,000; B $96,000; C $86,400.

The expected ratio

Expected ratio, full season = 1 ÷ (1 − discount); at 8 of 12 fixtures, × 8 ÷ 12

Partner Full season At 8 of 12
A 1.333 0.889
B 1.25 0.833
C 1.111 0.741

The delivery log, eight fixtures

Partner Asset Fixtures delivered Fixtures unconfirmed Fixtures not delivered
A LED 8 0 0
A West board 4 2 2
A Hospitality 8 0 0
B East board 8 0 0
B Seats 8, plus 4 extra seats at 3 fixtures 0 0
C LED 8 0 0

Delivered value and the ratio

Delivered value = Σ delivered units × rate card; ratio = delivered value ÷ contract value

Partner Delivered value Ratio Expected at 8 of 12 Gap, points Unconfirmed at rate card
A 8×12,000 + 4×4,000 + 8×6,000 = 96,000 + 16,000 + 48,000 = $160,000 80% 89% −9 2 × $4,000 = $8,000
B 8×5,000 + 8×3,000 + 12 seats × $300 = 40,000 + 24,000 + 3,600 = $67,600 113% 83% +30 $0
C 8 × 7,200 = $57,600 82% 74% +8 $0

If A's two unconfirmed board fixtures were undelivered, A's ratio is 80 percent against 89 and the gap is 9 points; if they were delivered and unlogged, 84 percent and 5 points. Both shown.

Make-goods

A's west board: two fixtures not delivered, two unconfirmed. Owed: two to four board fixtures, $8,000 to $16,000 at rate card, deliverable in the four remaining fixtures. That is a call to A this week, with the log.

B, over-delivered

Extra hospitality seats at three fixtures, and a board and seats package bought at 20 percent off receiving 113 percent at two thirds of the season: B is on track for about 170 percent of its fee in rate card value. The renewal conversation prices that in.

The assertion

delivered units ≤ capacity per asset per fixture: west board capacity 1 per fixture, delivered 1 at each of 4. Holds. Seats: capacity 180, B's 14 at peak. Holds.

Where it goes wrong, even at three

Delivery not logged. A's board assumed delivered; the partner keeps the list.

Measured against 100. B at 113 looks fine and A at 80 looks fine; the discounts say otherwise.

Unconfirmed as delivered. A's gap reads 5; at renewal A says 9.

Read after the season. A's make-goods become a credit.

From three to thirty

The same rate card, log and expected ratio per partner, every fixture. Covirage runs it on the contract file, the inventory master and the delivery log. The renewal value guide covers the measure, and the inventory utilisation guide covers the fixture-level view beneath it.

Questions people ask

Why compare to the expected ratio and not to 100 percent?

Because a partner that bought a package at a 25 percent discount should receive 133 percent of its fee in rate card value over the season, and 89 percent at two thirds. Measured against 100, every discounted partner looks over-delivered; measured against the expected ratio, the real gap appears.

What is an unconfirmed fixture?

A fixture the delivery log has no record for on that asset. It is neither delivered nor undelivered; it is the delivery process's gap. It is counted separately, and the partner's ratio is shown with and without it, because at renewal the partner will treat it as undelivered.

Why two thirds of the season?

Because make-goods can still be fulfilled in the remaining fixtures. A partner 15 points under with four fixtures left can be made whole on the pitch; the same partner after the season gets a credit and an argument.