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Monkey Boy
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I am running finances for 2 teams. In both cases, I accurately predicted that the scores would be similar to late season home games, so I reused the concession prices from those 2 games. In both cases, the teams received only about 2/3 of the concessions as they had in the earlier games. Both teams had more tickets sold, had higher fan support than earlier, and sold more beer, but everything else was much much lower.

I always thought that concessions were based on fan support and score which works great during the regular season. So this rematch makes no sense to me:
W 70-21 5784 8263 3866 6413 4927 3572 1542
W 90-31 6342 5576 2999 5138 4526 2690 962
$ increase .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .50 2.25
fan support 1st game 100 88 42 2nd game 100 100 56

Another note is that my prices are set BELOW expected prices by .25+ because we've made less per game when I use those prices.
 
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ticket sale prices are based off fan support

I have never seen evidence of that for concessions - generally the more of a blowout the game is, the more concessions you sell, but it isn't always true
 
Novus
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I assume ticket prices were higher for the playoff game?

I've always kinda suspected that the income level of the fans affects concession sales, and that lower-income fans actually spend more on concessions. When you raise prices for the playoff games, you replace low-income fans with higher-income fans. But I've never done any sort of rigorous testing on it... it's just always been a gut-instinct theory of mine.
 
sunder B
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The #1 factor in concessions is the number of plays in the game not the score. Even though the scores were similar, if one had more passing with quick scores and incompletions with clock stoppages, that game would likely return higher concessions
 
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Originally posted by sunder B
The #1 factor in concessions is the number of plays in the game not the score. Even though the scores were similar, if one had more passing with quick scores and incompletions with clock stoppages, that game would likely return higher concessions



And the 1st match up had less plays.

I am wondering if what Novus suspects is actually correct. If you raise your playoff ticket prices, there is less for the fans to spe d on concessions?

 
Monkey Boy
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It was bad enough that after a 14 game winning streak, I only got $1 more per playoff ticket than the final regular season game. The weird thing is that we did sell more beer, so why not more food?
 
Novus
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Rich people don't drink beer, I guess.
 


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