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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
During the beta, I remember a few people mentioned how this is a game-saver for an online league, where teams were constantly gaming the system, especially around playoff time.
Yes, the current system is certainly a simplification of real world data. We can certainly look into ways in later versions to be able to adjust things - maybe something simple like "slash ticket prices", which will adjust ticket prices down for the rest of the season, but may come with other consequences. And if more and more teams do end up moving to a more dynamic pricing scheme, we can certainly look into the best way to adjust that - It could even be something simple like you deciding whether you want dynamic pricing or not, and the game internally would adjust attendance and revenues for the game accordingly.
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Out of curiosity I did a bit of a google search on different MLB team "Average Ticket Price". I found a site that gave the past few decades of calculated average prices for pre-season, season and post season playoffs) tickets. I pulled up my MLB 2016 setup and found that the tickets for most of the teams were right in line with that average.
You can do a pull of total average or just by team. For a brand new major league level team setting, the price per ticket matches the national average ticket pre-season, and scales by fan base, just as RL does.
So, though it may not be exact, it does a pretty good job of pulling the average of the statistical information available.
So, when I set up a new game that is suppose to have some realism based off of RL, I just hop on google, search up the "average ticket price for [team]", and then adjust the tickets in preseason to the average of those teams. Works out well, and I adjust based on their performance in the previous year for the next year.
Just for fun, the key site I use, Statista.com, shows that the average MLB ticket price per game is actually $31.82 currently.
? Average ticket price for a MLB game by team 2015 | Statistic