tiburon12
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Looked around, could not find any data supporting this argument for all the teams currently or recently tanking/rebuilding. Everything I saw shows revenue and even gate receipts increasing or staying even at worst. Not even attendance took any noticeable dip among the rebuilding/bad teams I looked at.
Even the currently rebuilding California teams have no lost revenue, in fact the year before Covid both those teams had their highest revenue in roughly 20 years of data shown.
So where are you getting this opinion from? Actual data or are you just sorta assuming this is true?
Jumping into this conversation....
I think we can look at the Sharks as an example of how losing affected ticket sales (put aside revenue for now). Doing minimal research + crawling my memory, the Sharks sold out every game before the reverse sweep. Sharks’ sellout streak ends at 205 games – The Mercury News
since then, i cant recall them having a significant string of sellouts. Last year, a contact of mine high up in Sharks ticket sales said they really struggle to sell tickets when the team isn't elite, and even then weekday games are tough.
So while revenue may stay consistent, that could be a function higher ticket prices and other non-ticket revenue increasing. It's still a valid concern with this team that poor on-ice performance will lead to lower ticket sales.