The History of MLB Postseason Ticket Pricing
The MLB Postseason represents the pinnacle of baseball, where the best teams compete for a shot at the World Series. For fans, experiencing the thrill …
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Ticket Scalping in Missouri – Now It’s Legal
Missouri’s decision to legalize ticket scalping — selling tickets at prices above face value — marks a significant shift in the secondary ticket market. This …
Progressive Field Becomes Winter Sports Field
The Cleveland Indians are getting ready to open a skating track and 10-lane snow tubing hill at Progressive Field during the offseason. …Senior director of …
Fans as Inputs
After last night’s Twins/Tigers game – helluva game, no? – the announcers for TBS mentioned that the fans played a big part in the Twins …
No Price Discrimination Here
Despite their non-profit status*, university athletic departments price their tickets using strategies like the pros do. For one thing, they practice price discrimination. Students get …
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The Use of the Two-Part Tariff in College Ticket Pricing
I’ve written before that when you look at how college athletic department officials make business decisions, they act a lot like their professional counterparts even …
Stub Hub and MLB Ticketing
This week’s issue of the Sports Business Journal has an interesting article about ticket sales for MLB and the relationship of the league to Stub …
PSLs in NYC
They played in Charlotte, and now it’s time to see if they’ll play in the Big Apple. Personal Seat Licenses (PSLs) will be used to …
More on Using the Airline Model of Pricing to Price Tickets
Matt Phillips at a Wall Street Journal blog called “Middle Seat Terminal” takes up this TSE post on the San Francisco Giants using the airline …
Tracking Changes in MLB Baseball Attendance
Baseball-Reference.com has a handy page (HT to JC Bradbury) where they are tracking changes in MLB team attendance. It calculates overall attendance, per-game attendance, and …