How Low Will Super Bowl LI Prices Go?

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How Low Will Super Bowl LI Prices Go?

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With days to go until the game, Super Bowl prices are falling and quantity has doubled since championship Sunday. Now the question is ‘how low will prices go’?

To answer that questions, we’re using some history, specifically prices for the 2012 Super Bowl, which was the last Patriots Super Bowl with comparable demand. This year’s game falls into the medium-low demand category, as did the 2012 game. The 2015 Super Bowl, which the Patriots were also in, was a very high demand market, largely as the result of the Seahawks proximity to Glendale, Arizona.

The chart below shows that if 2017 follows the same trend as 2012, the cheapest ticket available on game day will be around $1,300. The one word of caution for fans looking to get to the game is that there is less than half the quantify available this year compared to the same day in 2012, which means prices may not get as low as that. That said, because On Location Experience is holding inventory back and no one know how much they have available, there may be more supply available than in 2012, which could drive prices even lower. The lowest day of prices we’ve tracked in eight years was $1,062 in 2013 for the 49ers vs. Ravens. If it goes that low, the market will have moved from the most expensive ever to the cheapest ever, which suggests the need for greater transparency about how much inventory is available in the market day one.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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