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Originally Posted by bizaro86
UFC prices are also well above what an NHL team would need. Have changed the typo above, thanks.
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UFC shows are again one off events, and typically championship events, that people will travel to a city specifically to see.
Are 10,000+ people going to travel to Las Vegas specifically to see a mid week hockey game against Tampa? I'm going to say no. So who goes to that game? Your local season ticket base? I believe your argument is you don't need one so there's probably only 5,000 of them. Is there a convention in town? Yeah? Are 10,000 of them interested in going? Oh what's that, they have convention related events that evening? Let's say a couple thousand of them skip those and go to the game anyways, so we're at 7,000. Maybe a couple thousand in casino comps or the like to get you to 11-12,000.
That's really a best case scenario for that kind of situation IMO, and it's still completely unpredictable. There's a reason that sports franchises value season ticket holders, because they allow a team to have a pretty accurate measure of their baseline ticket sales for each game and for the entire season. Without that you're in a situation where teams have no idea if they'll have 5,000 fans or 20,000 fans. Do they fully staff the arena just in case? Do they spend based on aggressive or conservative estimates? It makes doing business very difficult in a number of ways.