Help predicting secondary market for tickets v MSU
I'm hoping the board's collective knowledge and experience can help me determine when to buy tickets for the MSU game.
Typically I'm able to ignore the secondary market because I have season tickets, but this year I'll be part of a bachelor party that'll include going to the MSU game. Thus, I'll be selling my season tickets so I can sit with the bachelor and company. We're therefore going to need 6 tickets in a group. Stubhub and Seatgeek have tickets below row 60 for $230+ so I'm sure I'll be shelling out a decent amount of money for the tickets.
For those more experienced in watching the secondary market, can I expect that ticket prices on Stubhub & Seatgeek will go down once the season ticket holders get their tickets (and presumably a subset of them put them on Stubhub)? Or are the current prices going to hold pretty static under the assumption that Michigan is doing well and MSU is doing not-so-well?
Any insight is appreciated.
I thought there'd be a trounce last year but tickets never rose much above $100 even with UM unbeaten
I doubt UM will have as dominant a team this year and this isn't Bobby Williams coaching. Staee will have a terrible season but will make a respectable loss of it against its rival
Project ticket cost is 3.50
Except possibly more money. Needing a group of 6 tickets complicates this.
Do you think that isn't already accounted for by the market? I'd assume most people know it's all-but-certain to be a night game, so I'm hoping the pricing is already reflective of that fact.
But maybe I just think most people know that because I'm on this site.
The average fan does not know that. Or, if they do, they know it as a possibility (Which it still technically is). This site is not totally representative.
I agree - getting 6 together does make it more expensive and difficult.
This game is always more expensive to attend in Ann Arbor than East Lansing, and MSU was trash last year so their demand was extra low.
Unless you can somehow get single game tickets from the university itself (or a ticketpack and either sell or use the other few games), there is no point to buying in the summer.
The only way the prices won't fall the week of the game (especially 3-4 days before) is if both teams are undefeated, which seems highly unlikely.
However, it's best to buy 2-3 days out. Typically the Sunday-Wednesday of the game (for marquee games at least), the prices start falling, but then they bump back up a little bit the day or so before as people who have been waiting start buying quickly.
However, they should come in at 2-2 or maybe, just maybe 3-1. It looks like we willbe facing this group:
LT: Chewins, Finley
LG: Higby, Gianackakos
C: B. Allen, M. Allen
RG: Beedle, Jarvis
RT: Campbell, Arcuri
QB: Lewerke, Terry
RB: Scott, Holmes
FB: Lucas, N. Davis (also TE)
TE: Sokol, Dotson
WR: Davis, Chambers
WR: Stewart, Rison
Slot: Jackson, White
DE: Cooper, Bowers
DT: Williams, Jones
DT: M. Panasiuk, Owens
DE: Willekes, D. Alexander
LB: A. Dowell, Randle
MLB: Bachie, Bullough
LB: Frey, Simmons
CB: Scott, Butler
FS: Willis, D. Dowell
SS: Miller, Morrissey
CB: Layne, Harrell
No Donnie Corley listed, is that confirmation of insider knowledge?
Yep, they are missing :)
That's a good idea. I already have 2 season tickets so I'd only need 4 more... but my seats are actually right next to my parent's seats. The bachelor party might not want to be sitting next to them... it just might "harsh the vibe" as I'm sure all the cool cats are still saying.
But, it's worth investigating anyway just to have the information/option.
See if your parents are willing to sit elsewhere and buy tickets for them. Then you only need to barter for two more.
Part of investigating this idea will be asking them but... they almost certainly won't move simply because they won't want to not be with the group of friends we see 6-8 times/year every year for the last few decades. Thus, I won't count on getting 2 more tickets that way.
100% chance tickets will drop from the prices they are at now. Most scalpers won't list til they have them in hand.
I agree with this and there also will be much less ticket demand from Sparty fans. I doubt they will want to show up for this game.
"Well, guv, that offer is no longer valid....turned out not to be economically viable."
my thirst for blood outweighs my desire for currency.
let the season play out a bit. Prices are peaked right now.
It is times like this where I feel blessed to have every home game for a total of $175.
Buy student tickets the week before and get them validated. I just graduated, but both years I went to OSU games, the ticket prices plummeted (as low as $40) the week of The Game because people were going home for Thanksgiving. With a validation sticker, you're looking at roughly $100 a piece, everybody can sit together, and you can sit almost anywhere within the student section (if you're smart). All you have to do is find a student to look on Facebook groups for you.