Potential wrote:WuTang_OG wrote:?s=20
Ngl I didn't know how great of a sports city las vegas was. I didnt even know it was a city I thought it was just a gambling strip. Great fans there.
There's a crap ton of corporate investment too. A lot of the SS are purchased to be used as comps/conferences/promotions etc.
Also FWIW:
The team sold 8,600 season-ticket memberships for Michelob Ultra Arena, which fits around 10,000 people. The lowest-priced season ticket was $200, which made up about 40% of season-ticket sales, per the team.
The back-to-back WNBA champions will put a limited number of single-game tickets up for sale by late April. Those tickets will cost as little as $15 per game, up $5 from last year.
$200 for a season seat (yes that's the ENTIRE season), is less than chump change esp in a city like Vegas. Doing the math on that, 40% = 3440 seats at $200 a pop = $688,000. That doesn't seem like a lot of revenue (esp considering what the WNBA players want to get paid). That's for a championship team too.
Before fees, the get-in rate for a Chicago Sky game is $25 or less, but when the Fever come to town, the cheapest seat is $320.
The Fever are predicted to get Caitlin Clark - which goes to show what some actual star power and better marketing would do for the WNBA. People want to see Caitlin more than they really want to watch the WNBA players/teams. She delivered a great competitive performance at All-star weekend, and said all the right things. Props to her.
If they spend less time complaining about the pay gap and misogyny and whatever, and focus on delivering an entertaining product and marketing it well, like the All-star shootout...they'll improve the league exponentially quicker that guilt tripping people into watching them.