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You could approach this from the other angle and ask: What are the economics? What maximizes enjoyment for spectators? What maximizes profits? Maybe a team that gets 2,000 spectators on average is fine, and makes sense from a league perspective. Or maybe it's a financial disaster, but you can't tell just from attendance numbers. In the QMJHL the top team attracts more than 5x more spectators than the bottom 3 teams. It is mostly a small town league with a couple of larger cities that just happen to fall below the high NHL cutoff. Would the QMJHL be better without the small town teams like Acadie-Bathurst? In terms of fan enjoyment I doubt it. There's a huge supply of wannabe pro athletes willing to work for peanuts. There are travel and venue costs that put a floor on the scale of teams that places can support and today probably mean that you won't see a Val D'Or team flying across the continent for regular matches but this floor is well below 15,000 people paying 20 bucks a game. And the floor for being able to afford a bus and driving 4 hours to get to the average game is even lower. |
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Then you have another rough half that has attendance numbers similar to the CFL: 20,000-35,000. And then a few bottom feeders that have attendance that's about half or worse of CFL attendance, in the 10,000 range. |
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A team like Bournemouth, who have the small 10K stadium you're referencing, rely overwhelmingly on domestic TV. Over 91% of their revenue comes from the EPL's TV deal. Their total matchday revenue for a year is roughly $10MUSD. [Source] So, yeah, attendance only gets you so far at the surface of things. |
I get that.
Bournemouth aren't doing too badly in the standings. I take it they'd get more than 10,000 out to their games if they had a bigger stadium? |
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The thing with the open system is that having a big stadium is great at the top but absolutely awful lower down. There are plenty of teams with giant 20K/30K stadiums that only get 10K or 15K out because they're playing in lower divisions. Always better to have too few seats than too many. Anyway, back to Canada. |
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The Mooseheads do great for 3 reasons: 1) It's hockey in a Canadian city; 2) They have good "rivalries" with Cape Breton, Moncton, and Saint John and 3) at various times have had really high end NHL prospects and teams which were competitive and championship calibre. Basketball - The Rainmen already went under. The Hurricanes play to small crowds. If the CFL comes to Halifax, I can't see how the Hurricanes would survive. It looks like they're only hanging on now and anything that would cause attendance to drop could be fatal. CFL - I don't think being Canadian and not playing American teams would ever put the CFL below the NLL lacrosse team. A large part of Halifax wants to be considered in the same breath as other large Canadian cities and being in a league with Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary, etc... would be plenty of draw for fans. NLL - I know nothing of lacrosse culture or prevalence in Halifax. But I haven't heard much about lacrosse during my time living in Sydney or Fredericton. So if they require continental travel and professional salaries, I'm not sure what the business case is for the team to survive, but they have to expect to be and remain 2nd fiddle to the Mooseheads since the season runs head to head with the 2nd half of the hockey season and playoffs. |
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US 4 down football has largely filled the void due to the absence of the CFL. The arrival of the Schooners should shift support to regular football. |
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What makes the sport a fringe sport? Not having any previous representation at any level? Ottawa had a basketball team in the NBL and it absolutely failed - but Ottawa is home to two of the best CIS basketball programs in the country. The Ottawa Champions are basically failing but I wouldn't say baseball is a fringe sport. So much, IMO, depends on where the team is playing and when. I would have considered rugby a fringe sport in Toronto but there's going to be two professional teams there next year. If a team can carve out its niche it can be successful. OHL teams can't really make a go of it in Toronto proper and nobody really says Toronto isn't a hockey city. The same can be said for Montreal Island. |
Canada Soccer announces that Nike will be its official footwear, apparel, and equipment supplier starting in January. Umbro previously held these rights.
https://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-...-nike--p161979 |
As it relates to the Blue Jays:
Major League Baseball Strikes Out With Fan Attendance, Again Teams lost nearly $94 million in ticket revenue in 2018. And that’s not even counting unsold hot dogs and beer. By Eben Novy-Williams October 5, 2018, 6:00 AM ADT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...tendance-again https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/.../v1/800x-1.png https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/.../v1/800x-1.png https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/.../v1/800x-1.png -- The Blue Jays' attendance dropped from 3,203,886 (39,554) in 2017 to 2,325,281 (29,066) in 2018. According to Team Marketing the Blue Jays increased their ticket prices by 10% between 2017 and 2018. The average cost of a general ticket is $26.07USD, below the league average of $32.44 |
So this is what happens when the team stops performing well, people jump off the bandwagon.
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Basically total revenue flatlined between 2017 and 2018. Ticket prices are already going to be higher for when the bandwagon comes back. https://www.forbes.com/teams/toronto-blue-jays/ |
Halifax CFL proponents now selling swag for proposed Atlantic Schooners
The Canadian Press January 2 2019 HALIFAX — It doesn't exist yet, but the Atlantic Schooners Football Club — Halifax's proposed CFL team — is already selling swag. Alyse Hand, a spokeswoman for the group, says merchandise including T-shirts, hoodies, socks and tuques with the club logo are now available from an online store. Hand says the site was launched just before Christmas "as a way to get Schooners fans excited about a future team." She says sales have been steady since the launch, and some sizes have sold out. The clothing is made in Atlantic Canada by the Truro, N.S.-based Stanfield's Ltd. Last month, Atlantic Schooners founding partner Anthony LeBlanc said more than 6,000 season-ticket applications had been sold, and that plans for a stadium would soon be unveiled. Hand says the group is in the process of submitting a business analysis to the Halifax Regional Municipality. "There is no firm date for a release of stadium plans, but Schooners Sports and Entertainment, along with key stakeholders, will be engaging the community this month (mid-January) as it pertains to the proposed stadium and next steps," she said in an email. Hand says information about a public town hall will be released in the "coming days." The Canadian Football League announced last month that a regular-season game will be played somewhere in Atlantic Canada in 2019, as part of the Schooners franchise drive. LeBlanc has said the Toronto Argonauts will face the Montreal Alouettes on Aug. 25, possibly at a temporarily expanded stadium in Halifax, in Moncton, N.B., or at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S. https://i.imgur.com/OgSzHu7.jpg |
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Maybe the Blue Jays could drum up more revenue if they can get another Pro tenant to pay for the bills at Rogers Centre Skydome.:shrug: The Toronto Argonauts may be willing if Roger's Communication were to cut the football team a sweet deal :tup: |
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MLB teams have big swings up and down depending on how competitive the team is. Playing 80+ home games ensures that the swing is more noticeable than most major leagues. The next time the Jays are competitive tickets will be more expensive than during their last Championship series run so they'll be maximizing revenues more than previously.
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Couple numbers from Bill Brioux:
Canada/Russia - WJC - TSN - Dec 31, Thur - 2.4M Canada/Finland - WJC - TSN - Jan 2, Wed - 4.0M+ Bears/Eagles - NFL - CTV - Jan 6, Sun - 1.5M |
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(not a bournemouth fan but a general EPL fan) Keep in mind, Bournemouth's franchise value alone is very likely is more than the entire revenue from all 9 CFL teams (Bournemouth was stated to be worth about 172 million pounds, about 291 million Canadian dollars or similar to the franchise value of the Florida Panthers last fiscal year) |
CFL set to extend media rights deal with ESPN
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/.../CFL-ESPN.aspx "The new deal calls for at least 20 games per season on one of ESPN’s linear television networks, usually ESPN or ESPN2. That includes at least one division final and the Grey Cup championship game. It will place at least 65 CFL games on the direct-to-consumer service, ESPN+. The CFL says every game will be available." |
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