Playoff Shares

[Can_of_corn]

 

[24fps]

46 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

 

Fair enough.  I guess is what everyone wants to know now is who gets a full share

[Can_of_corn]

12 minutes ago, 24fps said:

Fair enough.  I guess is what everyone wants to know now is who gets a full share

I only saw numbers for the two WS team.  Not sure if they make them all public.  I think the O's share being larger than say the Dodgers means the Dodgers gave out more shares.

[backwardsk]

Do the teams get a pot of money and then decide how many full shares to hand out which determines the amount per share? Is that how it works?

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Do the teams get a pot of money and then decide how many full shares to hand out which determines the amount per share? Is that how it works?

I don't know for sure but I think it is by tiers.

So the Orioles would have received the same pool as the Dodgers, Braves and Twins.

[OriolesMagic83]

Rays: $8,728

That's barely money to get out of bed.

 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Rays: $8,728

That's barely money to get out of bed.

 

It's basically league minimum.

I bet the non-players are pretty happy to get a piece of it tho.

[Frobby]

I wonder how much the Orioles received.  Not the players, the team.   It’s a share of the gate receipts from the 3 games the team played in.  Not that big a share, after the players and MLB get their cut.  The way it works, the players only get a share of the receipts from the minimum number of games that can be played in that series.   So, a sweep doesn’t hurt the players’ share, but it hurts the team’s share a lot.  If I had to guess, the O’s probably only made $1-2 mm from the 3-game ALDS.

[Pickles]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I wonder how much the Orioles received.  Not the players, the team.   It’s a share of the gate receipts from the 3 games the team played in.  Not that big a share, after the players and MLB get their cut.  The way it works, the players only get a share of the receipts from the minimum number of games that can be played in that series.   So, a sweep doesn’t hurt the players’ share, but it hurts the team’s share a lot.  If I had to guess, the O’s probably only made $1-2 mm from the 3-game ALDS.

You think it's that little?  You've thought about it more than me but seems really low.

45,000 tickets at 300 a pop is like 13.5 million dollars.

[Can_of_corn]

5 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I wonder how much the Orioles received.  Not the players, the team.   It’s a share of the gate receipts from the 3 games the team played in.  Not that big a share, after the players and MLB get their cut.  The way it works, the players only get a share of the receipts from the minimum number of games that can be played in that series.   So, a sweep doesn’t hurt the players’ share, but it hurts the team’s share a lot.  If I had to guess, the O’s probably only made $1-2 mm from the 3-game ALDS.

Plus parking and concessions.

[Frobby]

3 minutes ago, Pickles said:

You think it's that little?  You've thought about it more than me but seems really low.

45,000 tickets at 300 a pop is like 13.5 million dollars.

The tickets don’t cost $300 a pop.  I think I paid $237.50 and those were good seats 13 rows behind 1B.  Most tickets cost significantly less.

i looked it up.  The players take 60% of the first 3 games and the commissioner’s office takes 15%.   Then the two teams divide the remaining 25%.  So even by your numbers the Orioles only would get 12.5% of 13.5 mm = $1.675 mm.   And it’s probably significantly less.

[Frobby]

17 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Plus parking and concessions.

Yes.   Though the concessionaire gets the lion’s share of the latter, I suspect. 

[Pickles]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

The tickets don’t cost $300 a pop.  I think I paid $237.50 and those were good seats 13 rows behind 1B.  Most tickets cost significantly less.

i looked it up.  The players take 60% of the first 3 games and the commissioner’s office takes 15%.   Then the two teams divide the remaining 25%.  So even by your numbers the Orioles only would get 12.5% of 13.5 mm = $1.675 mm.   And it’s probably significantly less.

Well, lucky you.  I paid 200 to sit in the nosebleeds.

I bought from the team when they opened them up to the general public online.  I was lucky to get them.

So we're talking more like close to 5 million for the tickets for the series, not to mention concessions, which at 25 a head comes to 2.5 million for the two home games, and parking at 60 (yes) bucks a car times 20,000? comes to almost another 2.5 million for the two home games.

I think it's very safe to say the O's made more than 1-2 million.

[Frobby]

22 minutes ago, Pickles said:

Well, lucky you.  I paid 200 to sit in the nosebleeds.

I bought from the team when they opened them up to the general public online.  I was lucky to get them.

So we're talking more like close to 5 million for the tickets for the series, not to mention concessions, which at 25 a head comes to 2.5 million for the two home games, and parking at 60 (yes) bucks a car times 20,000? comes to almost another 2.5 million for the two home games.

I think it's very safe to say the O's made more than 1-2 million.

First of all, I messed up my math a little in the post you replied to, because I forgot to multiply by three for the three games.  But let’s say tickets cost $200 on average.  That’s 45,000 * 200 * 3 * 12.5% = $3.375 mm.

It’s interesting to hear that the general public got charged $200 for nosebleed seats.  Season ticket holders did not pay those kind of prices.  Not only was I able to get my regular seats for $237.50, but we were offered additional seats in the lower deck, behind 3B but further back than my other seats, and I think the price was $155.  Also, I paid $45 for parking, in the Lee lot which is closer to the stadium than most of the lots.  Glad to know that being a season ticket holder actually gets you advantageous pricing during the playoffs.

I’d imagine far more seats were sold at the prices offered to season ticket holders than were sold at the “general public” prices.  
 

 

[InsideCoroner]

I bought 6 tickets for Game 5 of the ALDS at public prices as soon as they went on sale, and they were $120 per ticket for upper deck seating (in two different sections). It wasn’t $200 a ticket.