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Average ticket prices rental cars with dvd player in nyc last season ranged from $8.55 (for an early season game between the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians) to $222.58 (a New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox game commemorating Fenway Park s 100th anniversary). The median price for all games was $39.96 . Ticket prices are highest for the first games of the season, but they peaked again around June 11.
Across the league, the average ticket price for the first series of the season topped $100 , making them the year s most expensive tickets. Seven of the ten most expensive games in 2012 were on Opening Day. The other three were all games the Yankees played at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
Excluding rental cars with dvd player in nyc opening day, 6 of the 10 most expensive rental cars with dvd player in nyc games were contests between the Yankees and the Red Sox (five in Boston, one in New York). Two others were the Chicago White Sox at the Chicago Cubs; one was the Red Sox at Cubs; and the remaining rental cars with dvd player in nyc game was the Yankees at the Mets.
After the opening series, prices fell to around $40. As spring turned into summer and the weather became warmer and dryer, average ticket prices rental cars with dvd player in nyc rose, peaking in June around $60. For the rest of the season, tickets on secondary markets fell in price until closing the season around $30 in October.
Weekends were more expensive than weekdays, and day games, which typically fall on weekends, were more expensive than night games. rental cars with dvd player in nyc However, tickets rental cars with dvd player in nyc to weekend day games sold for roughly the same as weekend night games last year, while workweek day games were more expensive than after-work rental cars with dvd player in nyc evening contests.
Throughout the league, the cheapest tickets are sold for Tuesday and Wednesday games, at an average price of $37 . Tickets get progressively more expensive Wednesday through Saturday, before falling again from Sunday to Tuesday.
Despite finishing dead last in their division with the 6th worst record in baseball, the Red Sox had the highest median price for home games, at $69.27 . The cheapest tickets last season were for Kansas City Royals home games, at a median price of $25.78 .
For some teams, it s cheaper for fans to see their team on the road than at home. That s the case for the Toronto Blue Jays, which had home game ticket prices 70% above the team s away games in the United rental cars with dvd player in nyc States. Conversely, the Los Angeles Angels rental cars with dvd player in nyc can be seen at home for 63% less, on average, rental cars with dvd player in nyc than their away games.
The New York Yankees were the only team to drive prices up for every opponent it played on the road. For games the team played outside rental cars with dvd player in nyc of the Bronx, tickets sold for an average of $36 dollars above that home team s typical price on secondary markets. The largest premium paid to see the Yankees was $67 per ticket rental cars with dvd player in nyc when they were hosted across town by the New York Mets. (The Chicago White Sox have a similar effect on their crosstown rivals, the Cubs, adding $67 to the ticket price.) rental cars with dvd player in nyc Yankee games in Boston against their division rival, the Red Sox, saw a ticket premium of $55 .
The Red Sox also pushed prices higher rental cars with dvd player in nyc on the road. Games the Red Sox played away from Fenway increased ticket prices by an average of $17 . The Sox only pulled prices down at one stadium, Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, when the team was there for a three-game series in April.
The Seattle Mariners consistently suppressed ticket prices on the road. They only played one team where the average ticket price was higher than the home team s average: the Colorado Rockies, a marginal premium rental cars with dvd player in nyc of $0.70 . The Mariners typically brought down ticket prices by $10 , though their games against the Red Sox were sold $36 cheaper than other Red Sox home games, the steepest such discount in 2012.
The surest rental cars with dvd player in nyc way to spend too much on a baseball ticket is to buy your tickets far in advance, and that goes for other kinds of events, as well. According to Will Flaherty, director of communications at SeatGeek, ticket prices rental cars with dvd player in nyc fall pretty dramatically, as you get closer to the event, particularly in that acute 48-hour window right before kickoff, first pitch, whatever that may be. Be sure to time the market well.
Notes about our analysis: SeetGeek provided us with the average ticket price for each game on every Major League Baseball team s schedule, using data the company collects from online ticket exchanges. We derived our analysis from that data as if each team sells the same number of tickets (they don t), has the same number of seats (they don t), and as if all tickets rental cars with dvd player in nyc are sold in the same volume and under the same rules on secondary exchanges (they re not).