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Just a good follow up to my last post for all of you out there convinced your kid can get a full ride to school for athletics, even if they “focus” and/or “outwork” everyone. Answer, not good….figure a 55-1 ratio of athletes to available scholarships….
http://www.scholarshipstats.com/scholarshipodds.html
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Just as an FYI. You think your kid can play beyond high school? About 7% in total of all athletes in all sports men and women in high school actually play a sport in college at any level in college. Division 1,2,3, etc. This chart really breaks it down by sport by division etc. Just a great reality check for some of my friends out there who have a certain vision of their kid….
Chances of a High School Athlete playing College Sports Scholarship
Stats.com
What are the chances of a high school athlete making the transition to the college level? We compared the number of athletes participating in varsity sports at US high schools during the 2013-14 school year to the number of college student athletes and arrived at the following percentages. Overall a little over 7% of high school athletes (about 1 in 14) went on to play a varsity sport in college, and about 2% of high school athletes (1 in 50) went on to play at the NCAA Division I level:
http://www.scholarshipstats.com/varsityodds.html
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Just an outstanding detailed article on possible steps the NBA could take…
http://m.si.com/4157973/whats-next-for-nba-in-donald-sterling-case-from-a-legal-standpoint/
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http://deadspin.com/how-the-myth-of-the-ncaa-student-athlete-was-born-1524282374
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SOme very interesting numbers came to my attention from the latest WR Hambrecht report. As TV contracts grow in size the teams in each league are less and less dependent on home ticket revenue. Now in the 1970s and 1980s teams generally ran their operation almost entirely on home ticket revenue, leading to TV blackout rules and a heavy emphasis on game experience.
Now with hugely lucrative TV contracts and the growth of HD giving a better experience at home to a degree rather than taking the time and expense to go to a game, the home ticket revenue has become less important to teams and leagues other than the appearance of what a crowd at a game looks like on TV. Let’s look at some numbers…
Revenue from Home tickets is something that is easily tracked. I have put together some summary numbers to take a look at.
Revenue from Home Ticketing-
NFL – In 2006 16.8%, 2013 15% for a -2.2% change
MLB- 2006 33.2%, 2013 30.7% for a -1.5% change
NBA- 2006 30.1%, 2013 26.1% for a -2.8% change
NHL- 2006 39.7%, 2013 38.9% for a 0.5% change
Now obviously the NFL is the most dependant on TV revenue, and probably has the most geographically dispersed fan base. The NHL’s numbers will change with their new huge TV contract. I wouldn’t be surprised if that number comes down to 28-30%. Now what does this all really mean? Is there a day coming where there are much smaller stadiums, little crowds and everything is online or on TV? Just an interesting trend to keep an eye on both fro ma fan perspective and diving into issues during a lockout or strike.
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Just an interesting note I think. The corollary between team value and the salary cap. Whilst the teams with the lowest salary cap number probably make more year to year cash for their owners, the teams with the least amount of salary cap space seem to win more as well as being more valuable. Here are the numbers….
League Cap ReportThis Report is generated at 8 AM
And now the valuations…
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Sorry I have been away for a few months. Had quite a bit of things taking my attention. I wanted to talk a bit about attendance in sports today. Even though in previous posts I have written that ticket sales are a relatively small percentage of revenue for a sports team. In the NFL as an example it is 16.6% of the total revenue of a team. I wanted to share something from the Boston Globe that shows attendance for the major sports team in a given city vs. the total capacity/seats available. It is a pretty interesting piece of information that can show the health of a given league or team in a given city as well as the appetite for spending on sports event tickets from the populous of a given area. I was actually surprised that Boston ranked #1 with over 100% of capacity sold. New York was 6th (must be those huge Yankee Stadium prices or just that there are sooooo many teams there).
These stats I think can not only be used as the raw ticket revenue data, but is more likely an indicator of how likely a given fan base is to buy other items from the team. Such as shirts and other team logo items. I have talked so much about the finances and revenue of teams and leagues here, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at the appetite for spending from fans. The link to the full article is below as well as the graphic. Let me know what you think of it!
Article – http://www.boston.com/sports/blogs/statsdriven/2013/08/boston_strongest.html
Here is the graphic / list of cities…
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Really well done article in the Boston Globe….
http://www.boston.com/sports/blogs/statsdriven/2013/01/one_less_show_in_town_the_nhl.html
I keep hearing fans saying they will boycott the NHL or go to games and not buy concessions as a sort of protest. The old fans vote with their feet.
Be careful given the current NHL administration. A boycott of goods or services leads to lower revenue. So hurts the owners in theory. The problem is that with this group lower revenue will just cause these guys to have another lockout to change the deal to make up for THAT lost revenue. I am not sure how to get back at these guys because of this. But the answer may be to boycott their OTHER business holdings.
What do you think?
Outstanding article on the effects of the lockout but also how the NHL shares 11% of revenues and other leagues share much more. The NFL sharing 80%. Really interesting look at what may be the solution rather than squeezing the players. http://www.boston.com/business/2012/12/04/garden-nearby-businesses-miss-out-estimated-million-per-game-during-nhl-lockout/EqoHdl1TERFRii87oIOP2M/story.html
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