When it comes to the cost of taking your family to the game....... Props! http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2013/11/trail-blazers-entertaining-and.html Sent from my baller ass iPad FAMS!
I wonder how all of those prices compare if scaled to the median family income in their respective metro areas.
Not surprising tbh. The market in PDX can sustain it, and it's mostly because PDX is a one sport town. (this is soon changing with the Timbers, however). Biggest surprise on the list is OKC.
The article says the Blazers are 3% below average. That seems pretty close to average. I'm more interested to know how they rate compared to the median? According to http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/which-nba-teams-most-affordable/ The Blazers are ranked 19th in "Total Family Cost": 18 teams are less expensive and only 11 teams are more expensive. So, I guess the Blazers are 'way' below the median: in affordability.
That is a much better measure. The concept is probably way over the head of the guy who wrote the fluff piece for the Portland Business Journal.
As hard as we are on sports writers, I don't feel like giving this PBJ writer/editor a pass on this. He wrote: Yet the article he based his editorial on clearly shows the Blazers are one of the least affordable teams at 19th out of 30 in "affordability". (Not accounting for 'cost of living', of course, which was not accounted for.)
Yes. And the guy who writes for the Business Journal should know the difference. And he should know how a very few expensive data points can skew the average. Ignorant journalists and deceptive writing are peeves of mine. OK, I'm done making too big a deal out of this now. How 'bout dem Blazers!
You would think that Basketball-Crazed Indiana would be most expensive (since demand should theoretically be high).
The Dogs are a wee bit spendy (same with a bottle of coke or sprite). Simple solution? don't buy a dog at a game and sneak in your drinks.... and if any blazer employee is reading this, I'm kidding about bringing in a dog.......
So I went through all of their data, and then went through the median income for each city, and we are still right in the middle, and actually got moved up a little for affordability.
Last game I went to was the come back and a round of beers for me and 2 buddies nearly sent me into bankruptcy.
