the market has responded accordingly<\/a>.<\/p>\nPer GameTime, the cheapest price to get into Hard Rock to watch the Hoosiers and \u2018Canes is a tidy $2,700 a ticket. That\u2019s down from $3,500 the day after Indiana won the Peach Bowl to clinch a trip to Miami, yes, but it\u2019s still about $1,000 more than the Ohio State-Notre Dame championship game cost at this point last year.<\/p>\n
(Also, remember: that $2,700 is just to get in the door. If you want to be anywhere near the field, you\u2019re looking at double, triple or more the cost. Hope you saved your money!)<\/p>\n
Ticket prices are always an interesting exercise in what, exactly, the market will bear, how much fans can be expected to pay to support their teams. It\u2019s not uncommon to see ticket prices for less than the price of a hamburger to get into various bowl games, baseball games, even NFL games. (Team names withheld to protect the terrible.)<\/p>\n
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The flip side of that equation, though, is that the College Football Playoff committee now sees that fans are willing to fork out nearly three grand for a single ticket. Extenuating circumstances like those noted above don\u2019t matter; the money is exchanging hands. And so face value gets bumped up a couple hundred bucks, leading to a commensurate increase in secondary markets \u2026 because if you\u2019re fortunate enough to have one of these lottery tickets, you might decide that you can watch the game at home and pocket a whole lot of cash.<\/p>\n
Which brings us around to our next ticket topic of the weekend \u2014 the Seattle Seahawks\u2019 plan to police secondary market ticket sales. When the Seahawks organization identified certain tickets on the secondary market as belonging to season ticket holders, they emailed the seller with a polite but unmistakable message: Get those tickets off the market or risk losing out on season tickets for 2026.<\/p>\n
If you think that\u2019s too draconian of a punishment, may we introduce you to Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters Tournament. If you are fortunate enough to win the lottery for a badge to the tournament, and you decide to sell that badge \u2014 which you can typically do at upwards of 20 times the cost of ticket \u2014 you are risking a lifetime banishment.<\/p>\n
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Is that fair? Maybe yes, maybe no, but it\u2019s definitely legal, and it\u2019s likely that more teams will start to use this method of ticket control in the future. It\u2019s already the rule in various European soccer leagues, where fans of the opposing team can\u2019t buy tickets in a home-team section. (This is done as much for the visiting fans\u2019 safety as for the home fans\u2019 unity, but the point remains.)<\/p>\n
So this leaves the ticket market with two diametrically opposite forces working it from both sides. Are you with the free market \u2014 meaning tickets are more available, but at a substantially higher cost? Or do you go with artificially enforced controls like those laid down by the Seahawks, which can keep prices lower but severely impact supply? Which way do you go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What exactly is a postseason ticket worth these days? Not just its monetary value, or its ability to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,56787,60175,9791,60174,35973],"class_list":{"0":"post-119979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news","11":"tag-national-championship-game","12":"tag-postseason-ticket","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-secondary-markets","15":"tag-ticket-prices"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}