Comments on: Will Sky-High Post-Season Ticket Prices Keep Tigers Fans Away? http://blog.detroitathletic.com/2009/09/03/will-sky-high-post-season-ticket-prices-keep-tigers-fans-away/ All Tigers all the time. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://blog.detroitathletic.com/2009/09/03/will-sky-high-post-season-ticket-prices-keep-tigers-fans-away/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Andrew Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:24:01 +0000 http://blog.detroitathletic.com/?p=1784#comment-325 Last week was an odd week in terms of tickets. Anyone that has a 27 game package or less ended up getting tickets on days of the week that they usually don't. I'm not sure why exactly this was, but it wouldn't shock me if that had some effect on the number of people that showed up. I know it did for several of my friends. And really, season ticket sales are the primary factor in attendance. Given they lost most of the post-2006 World Series and pre-2008 hype bandwagoners after last season's debacle, it's really not that surprising that attendance is back down to 2006 levels. It takes more than a couple years of respectability to build up a solid ticket purchasing fanbase. Last week was an odd week in terms of tickets. Anyone that has a 27 game package or less ended up getting tickets on days of the week that they usually don’t. I’m not sure why exactly this was, but it wouldn’t shock me if that had some effect on the number of people that showed up. I know it did for several of my friends.

And really, season ticket sales are the primary factor in attendance. Given they lost most of the post-2006 World Series and pre-2008 hype bandwagoners after last season’s debacle, it’s really not that surprising that attendance is back down to 2006 levels. It takes more than a couple years of respectability to build up a solid ticket purchasing fanbase.

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