Showing posts with category "ticket pricing"

The Price of Linsanity

From Tom Van Riper at Forbes:

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

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

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

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

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:

Baseball Teams to Use Airline Pricing Model

From Darren Rovell:

Ticket Scalping in Missouri - Now It's Legal

In Missouri, ticket scalping at prices above face value is now legal..

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.

Report: Lower Ticket Prices for Women's Basketball is Due to Institutional Sexism

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed.:

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

Bringing the Game Back - The Role of Prices

Responding to some of the doomers and gloomers who see the NBA going to hell in a handbasket, Dave Berri argues that the the association will not suffer any