Mets Blog has the story but Adam Rubin tweeting “the Mets know things that are not circulated and don’t feel comfortable” about Backman sure is interesting.
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Keep the tickets comments coming. More on that when I can!
What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Mets Blog has the story but Adam Rubin tweeting “the Mets know things that are not circulated and don’t feel comfortable” about Backman sure is interesting.
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Keep the tickets comments coming. More on that when I can!
Dan, who knows a little about statistics, sent this over. Unofficial and I haven’t fact-checked but it comes with this snazzy graph.
A few quick numbers for you
70 different ticket prices
17 different tiers (not including Platinums)
Differences in pricing (except for Prom Res):
Premium 14% lower than Marquee (22%)
Classic 17% lower than Premium (29%)
Value 20% lower than Classic (40%)
Or looking at it the other way
Classic 25% higher than Value (67%)
Premium 20% higher than Classic (40%)
Marquee 17% higher than Premium (29%)
I went back and looked…last year I posted about the 2010 prices on November 11th, so the timing is similar. I was wondering they accelerated the announcement to get in under the cover of Sandy…the beat reporters will be distracted by Sandy reporting for work….but I’m probably over-thinking it.
It seems that for a schmoe like me the seats will cost about the same…I can’t be bothered to see how many Titanium Games there were last year, but from memory I often had $25 or $35 on my seats.
As I mentioned yesterday I bet the weekend plans will be that 10+5 crap which is disappointing.
I’m waiting for the Dave Howard Mathematics on this one which will explain how prices were reduced.
Overall, I’m underwhelmed and the 8 zillion (actually 70) different prices seems silly.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments!
UPDATED: if you are a regular reader, new content follows below this post. This one is drawing lots of attention so I want to leave it up top.
The screengrabs are from mets.com at around 9am Tuesday.
UPDATED 8:25pm: The links in this post have been deactivated by mets.com This morning they brought you to the dates listed according to each type of game marquee/value etc.
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Thanks to Peter and Robert for immediately sending this in.
The Mets have released ticket prices and…well…it’s more confusing than ever.
The pricing scheme features row differentials (that’s new right?) and different classifications.
The “Marquee” dates (where it will cost you $45 to sit in Prom Res Infield) are Opening Day and Yankee games.
There are 22 Premium Games…at first glance looks like Fri/Sat/Sun.
25 Classic Dates seems to be a mix of NL East teams and random Fri/Sat/Sun games
The Value Games are the rest of the weekday leftovers, although you can see the World Champion Formerlys.
I have to digest this before I can comment but at first glance it seems absurd and expensive and I am finding myself angry.
Click the below to see the deal…or lack thereof: