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I do think the idea of luxury suites or premium seating in general can be incorporated. But I would go with a more indirect route.
Basically, you could adjust the percentage of your seats in your ballpark that are premium seating. Premium seating gives a monetary bonus on top of the gate receipts for that game. So more premium seats yields more additional revenue for the club. But it's based on the attendance generated for the game and the current ticket price, thus eliminating any need to have more complicated attendance models based on the type of seating.
Of course, to add more premium seating to your ballpark you'd have to spend money as it costs money to make such physical improvements to the park. There is another tradeoff in that the higher the proportion of premium seating the lower your overall park capacity becomes (since premium seating takes up more physical space to accommodate its various amenities).
A similar alternative would be to use a somewhat abstracted "luxury suite" count instead of a premium seating percentage. The luxury suite number serves as a proxy for both suites and other premium seating. To add more luxury suites to your park you'd have to spend money. But hopefully the additional revenue the extra suites bring in will recoup the investment in the longer term. As before, adding more suites would gradually reduce the overall seating capacity of the park meaning there is a tradeoff. The suites provide a revenue bonus based on the actual attendance and ticket price of the club during the season.
There is enough real-world data to serve as a foundation for these suggestions, and it also has the benefit of being fairly simple at its core yet offering some meaningful decisions to the user.
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