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 merchandising and licensing Kurt Schloss ...MLB Postseason Ticket Pricing
I am spending the weekend in the NYC area, so the New York Times is my local paper for the next couple of days. I came across an interesting tidbit ...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 win. 54,000 Twins fans hollering ...Ticket Scalping in Missouri - Now It's Legal
In Missouri, ticket scalping at prices above face value is now legal.. And there was some rejoicing (and economic development???). To wit: Hal Wagner, owner of Ace Sports & Nationwide ...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 cheaper tickets than the general ...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 though the athletic departments are ...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 Hub. Written by Bill King ...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 finance the construction of the ...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 pricing model: Granted this is ...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 comparisons between this year and ...The Price of Linsanity
From Tom Van Riper at Forbes: According to TiqIQ.com, which aggregates online ticket prices from various sources, the average price Knicks fans are paying online for a game at the ...A Report From the Cutting Edge
This just in: remember that image of baseball front office types as slow-witted dinosaurs who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century by Michael Lewis? Forget ...
