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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I bet most of those other things (concessions, corporate support, advertising) are highly correlated to ticket revenue. If the hockey team is the #1 draw in town, it'll attract the corporate support. If nobody cares, then not so much.
Granted, there are some exceptions (the Islanders TV deal, etc) but it's probably as good a basis as anything else for estimating those revenues.
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It may get you in the ballpark, but it's not going to get you anywhere close to an accurate read on franchise health, especially when you consider that a modern professional sports franchise is but one entity in a maze of related companies. Losses for company A don't mean anything if they're due to payments made to company B.
My point is that I find that people generally take a far too simplistic view of these things.