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Originally Posted by FusionX
But in the regular season, the playoffs? I go to see my team win. I don't care if Huberdeau is playing or not, I pay to go and hopefully walk out with a Flames W. You want to know why people don't go to watch Arizona? That's because their team sucks and has done so for years.
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This.
This is one of the topics mentioned in
Moneyball (the book, not the movie). Billy Beane spent years analyzing the value of stars in selling tickets. He concluded that, in baseball at least, they basically have none.
If you have a winning team, fans will take interest, and your top players will be recognized as stars. If you bring in a bunch of expensive stars and then have a losing team, fans will lose interest, and your stars will be regarded as has-beens.
In his earlier days as GM, before other teams caught on, Beane accumulated a lot of assets by pumping and dumping. By having a no-name team that won a lot of games, the A's turned nobodies into stars. Then Beane traded those stars for more than they were worth because other teams thought their names would sell tickets.
What sells is winning.