Author Topic: Attendance impact of World Series  (Read 2621 times)

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Offline bluestreak

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Re: Re: Postseason Awards
« Reply #25: November 06, 2019, 10:05:38 AM »
Essentially alot of non fans/ticket brokers or non diehard fans bought 2020 season ticket plans in order to get WS tickets to either go to or make a profit.  Their plan is to sell their season tickets either as a block or to individual games (in order to recoup their cost or make profit) which will flood the resale market driving prices down.

In terms of Attendance number, it's the look test.  It may say sold out but if the stadium is half empty then it's a half empty stadium.

I understand why people are thinking this. But tickets prices dropping would be the result of tickets being on the market that otherwise wouldn’t be there. But there are a fixed amount of seats in the park. And every seat is for sale. So it doesn’t matter if that ticket is being sold by a season ticket holder on Stubhub or by the Nationals on their website or on Stubhub. If the Nats hadn’t sold those tickets to more casual fans in the form of season plans, they wouldn’t have kept them off the market, they would have sold them.
And I would argue that a ticket is less likely to make it on the market if it’s owned by a season plan holder than it is if it’s held by the Nationals. A plan holder may decide to go, or give it to a friend, or thinks it’s a pain to list it on stub hub that day. The Nationals are guaranteed to try to sell it.