RTrees
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I don't know what percentage of teams these days care about filling seats as much as optimizing their dollars. I'd speculate that under many teams calculations, some seats will always be left empty just to milk multiples more dollars from those who will pay a lot more. Ugly consequence is the empty seats.
Filling seats, on its own, is as simple as it sounds. Lower the prices.
But if they want to do it AND make money, they just need to be more flexible at game time. There must be creative ways to fill up the seats if they are not sold out.
For example, since they're not selling out anyways, those tickets are going wasted, and you could get SOMEthing for SOME of them at only the cost of having a better system.
For example.. 3rd inning make all unsold tickets half price. After 5th inning half it again.. or make it a buck, just to get the sell out. Meanwhile you get the added concessions income and maybe a little parking income, as well as the tickets themselves. The only price is people stumbling in throughout the game (wouldn't happen much on nights they'd sell out anyways) and updating the system and staff to sell tickets this way.
It takes a little extra effort from the organization, but it would create more loyal fans knowing there will be a full stadium each night especially in games when there's a crunchtime or extra innings. The place will be rocking every night. Creating lifelong fans from a very young age, which is only good for business. Wish they'd just go the extra mile. Seats would be full.
Filling seats, on its own, is as simple as it sounds. Lower the prices.
But if they want to do it AND make money, they just need to be more flexible at game time. There must be creative ways to fill up the seats if they are not sold out.
For example, since they're not selling out anyways, those tickets are going wasted, and you could get SOMEthing for SOME of them at only the cost of having a better system.
For example.. 3rd inning make all unsold tickets half price. After 5th inning half it again.. or make it a buck, just to get the sell out. Meanwhile you get the added concessions income and maybe a little parking income, as well as the tickets themselves. The only price is people stumbling in throughout the game (wouldn't happen much on nights they'd sell out anyways) and updating the system and staff to sell tickets this way.
It takes a little extra effort from the organization, but it would create more loyal fans knowing there will be a full stadium each night especially in games when there's a crunchtime or extra innings. The place will be rocking every night. Creating lifelong fans from a very young age, which is only good for business. Wish they'd just go the extra mile. Seats would be full.
