Rob Albericci saw his son Austin’s Little League baseball team struggle to recruit enough kids to fill a roster, and the rising demands of Austin’s football team, the growing pressure for kids to focus on a single sport, to specialize even before they hit puberty. Continue reading… “Struggling to hook kids, baseball risks losing fans to other sports”
The creators hope the robots can lead chants by real fans too.
A struggling Korean baseball team, the Hanwha Eagles, have invented a novel way to improve atmosphere at their matches – by bringing in a crowd of robot fans.
Continue reading… “Robots replace cheering fans at Korean baseball games”
It’s impossible to set the “right ticket prices” months in advance of an individual ballgame.
On Opening Days across the country organists are again playing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at the baseball stadiums. But there is another game being played in box office backrooms. Seventeen out of the 30 Major League teams were using some form of dynamic pricing last year. dynamic pricing is the concept of raising and lowering prices in accordance with demand — to price ballpark tickets. This year, the practice seems likely to grow.
Continue reading… “Pricing baseball seats like airline tickets”
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