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From: [email protected] (Mike Jones)
Subject: Re: MLB = NBA?
Reply-To: [email protected]
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[email protected] (Mark Singer) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> writes:
>>In article , [email protected] (Mark Singer) says:
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>>1) why would owners decrease ticket prices when they obviously get
>> lots of people to pay the price they're asking?
>I don't think that it is "obvious" that "lots" of people are willing
>to pay the price. I'm sure someone out there in net-land has some
>facts about trends in attendance regarding percentage of capacity
>sold. But even if the trends are relatively flat, you have to consider
>what is happening on a team-by-team basis.
Attendance in 1992 was down. By .3%. From an all-time record in 1991.
In people terms, attendance was down by 310,000 from 1991 to 1992. Two
franchises, the Dodgers and Mets, were down by 1,100,000 from 1991 to 1992.
Had either of them not been entirely awful, MLB would have set another
attendance record in 1992.
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | [email protected]
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