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Originally Posted by WillieMaysHayes
If your ticket prices are 5x or 10x the league average, no one should show up. But they still do.
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Originally Posted by bwburke94
Apparently reality is unrealistic. Speaking as a Red Sox fan, I know how it feels to have jacked up ticket prices. Over 100 bucks and you still get a crappy view.
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Well, we have to be specific about what kind of tickets we are talking about. Looking at the Fan Cost Index for the 2013 season, in terms of average ticket price (which excludes premium seats) the Red Sox were at $53.38 compared to a MLB figure of $27.73; that's just under twice the major league average. If you look at premium tickets exclusively, the Red Sox average was $172.51; the Yankees, on the other hand, were at $305.11. The MLB average was $90.92. That means Boston was at less than twice the league average while New York was at over three times the league average.
I think what needs to be looked at in OOTP is not the actual dollar value of the tickets compared to other clubs but rather the ratio of the highest ticket prices compared to the league average ticket price (as well as the lowest ticket price compared to the average).