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Originally Posted by nhannaford
If they have to cut salaries, that means that they will have to cut ticket prices, concession prices, etc, there fore leaving them without alot of profits.
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Player salaries have absolutely no effect or bearing on ticket prices whatsoever. Ticket prices are set at what the market will bear, and are priced at the demand for them. Playoffs are the most expensive tickets of all, and players don't even get paid for them (standard players contracts only cover the regular season). If 2000 people want to watch a game in a 50,000 seat stadium, prices go down. If 5,000,000 people want to watch game 7 of the World Series, prices go up due to demand. Simple supply side economics All of this is independent of player salaries.