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Re-pricing Triathalons
Some interesting items reported in this NYT story on triathalons. First, the demand to compete in a triathalon is increasing and so is price. The triathlon is a sport that ... -
Mixed signals on the sports economy
Season ticket renewals for the LA Lakers ran at 99%, "despite price hikes that raised the cost of Jack Nicholson's seats at Staples Center to $2,500 a basketball game." In ... -
The Downside of Baseball's Data Revolution
Most revolutions have a downside (see October 1917). So too with baseball. The use of data analytics in baseball has changed the game in important ways -- where fielders are ... -
Active bidding for BCS TV rights
The story is pitched as "first major sports event goes to cable," but for me the real information is in the size of the bids: On Monday afternoon, current rights-holder ... -
Success in Year t, Greater Demand in Year t+1
Two things are well-known among sports economists. Ticket prices do not drive team performance. In other words, when a team says it must raise ticket prices to become/stay competitive, you ... -
Olympic bailouts
The developers who are Vancouver's partners in the 2010 Winter Games reportedly have ... financial issues. UBC's Professor Somerville sums up the implications nicely, I think: "We’re looking at a ... -
MLB in Japan & the EPL too?
From today's WSJ: The number of MLB licensees in Japan has grown to 61 from just six in 2000, according to MLB. Retail sales revenue from licensed products has nearly ... -
Hockey in the Great Depression
Given all of the talk that sports are acyclical -- and indeed some pieces of evidence -- I found the following set of facts very interesting. There's no question the ... -
Non-profits Often Behave Like For-Profits
This morning's St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article on the Southlake (Tx) Carroll Dragons football program. Southlake, a suburb of Fort Worth, is a wealthy enclave whose residents have a ... -
Two on the economy & attendance demand
"Economic downturn isn't slowing luxury box sales," at the NY Times. The focus is on the New York market and sales at the new stadiums. The article stresses the size ... -
Sayonara Arena Football
At least for 2009. As posted in the comments, here is the story. My take (as I've said before): investments in new forms of commercial sport will see both fan ... -
Paying for Sports Programming
It is pretty widely understood that sports programming drives live television these days. The Nielsen ratings for broadcast networks during the week of December 24 provide some recent data. Nielsen's ...
