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Time to talk a little baseball
We’re now about a third of the way into the baseball season so it is time to make good on our promise to talk a little baseball. As an added plus, I get to mention that my team is finally ahead of...
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Baseball and process control
We are well into the baseball playoffs and are thus running out of time for baseball posts. To the rescue is a story from Marketplace that relates to baseball and, in a way, statistical process control...
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Cutting down the beer line
My colleague Kyle Cattani sent me a link to a Yahoo! Sports story about a proposed solution to a persistent operations problem at many sporting facilities: Long beer lines! (The Death Of The Beer Line,...
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Managing Cubs ticket sales
So the day I posted on scalping and LCD Soundsystem tickets, I got an email from the Cubs (I am the proud holder of position 88,950 on the Cubs season ticket holder waiting list). It offered a chance...
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What does “Made in America” look like?
We are nearly two months into the baseball season and we have yet to have a baseball related post. Now that the Red Sox have crept above 500, it is time to rectify the situation. Check out this video...
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Finally, something dynamic at Wrigley: The price of bleacher seats
It’s been almost three weeks since pitchers and catchers reported so it’s time to talk a little baseball. Specifically, it’s time for an update on how Major League teams are trying to separate fans...
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Even Angels can’t manage queues
Selling baseball tickets should be easy — especially if it is before the start of the season and fancy revenue management schemes haven’t kicked in. But the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (hereafter,...
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Reverse engineering how the Cubs use dynamic pricing
Back in March we had a post on how the Cubs were going to use dynamic pricing to sell bleacher seats this season. That post apparently caught the attention of someone at SeatGeek, a ticket search...
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The Yankees versus the open market for tickets
StubHub and Major League Baseball have just renewed their agreement that make the eBay the official reseller for most of MLB’s teams. As Businessweek tells it, this has to date generally been a good...
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Deadlines and Cubs tickets
It’s an absolutely gorgeous in Chicago today. It’s so nice that when our son said he wished he had a Little League game today, my wife and I said that we would see about getting Cubs tickets for...
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