With Raiders Barring Fans, the Most Valuable NFL Ticket Market Is Shut Down for 2020

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With Raiders Barring Fans, the Most Valuable NFL Ticket Market Is Shut Down for 2020

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By TicketIQ

With the Las Vegas Raiders announcing that they will be playing their 2020 home games at Allegiant Stadium without fans, we thought it would be interesting to see the estimated ticket market value loss for those games. The estimate is based on the secondary market value before the recent announcement *number of seats* number of games played at reduced capacity. This is not a precise measure, but the simplest way to benchmark the magnitude of losses, by team.

For the Raiders, that estimated ticket market value loss is $571 million, which is the highest for any team in the NFL.

For the entire NFL, the estimated ticket market value losses would be nearly $7 billion if fans were not allowed to attend any games in 2020.

At $1,098 per seat, the Raiders had the highest secondary market average list price in the NFL following May’s 2020 schedule release.

We’ve also created an NFL COVID-19 Safety Index based on daily active cases compared to the national average * Rt.live, a measure of how fast the virus is spreading in each stateThe Safety Index is not meant as a recommendation to attend events in any market, but just one interpretation of publicly-available data.

We’ve broken down our Safety Index into 3 categories. Teams highlighted in Green are the safest. A Yellow rating is a low-medium risk. Orange or Red ratings are the riskiest. We’ll be updating every two weeks to track progress by state.

Safety Index dashboard that we update regularly which can be found here.

TicketIQ Blog post with the dashboard and 2020 NFL ticket data.

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About the Author Trey Thoelcke →

Trey has been an editor and author at 24/7 Wall St. for more than a decade, where he has published thousands of articles analyzing corporate earnings, dividend stocks, short interest, insider buying, private equity, and market trends. His comprehensive coverage spans the full spectrum of financial markets, from blue-chip stalwarts to emerging growth companies.

Beyond 24/7 Wall St., Trey has created and edited financial content for Benzinga and AOL's BloggingStocks, contributing additional hundreds of articles to the investment community. He previously oversaw the 24/7 Climate Insights site, managing editorial operations and content strategy, and currently oversees and creates content for My Investing News.

Trey's editorial expertise extends across multiple publishing environments. He served as production editor at Dearborn Financial Publishing and development editor at Kaplan, where he helped shape financial education materials. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer-producer at SVE. His freelance editing portfolio includes work for prestigious clients such as Sage Publications, Rand McNally, the Institute for Supply Management, the American Library Association, Eggplant Literary Productions, and Spiegel.

Outside of financial journalism, Trey writes fiction and has been an active member of the writing community for years, overseeing a long-running critique group and moderating workshop sessions at regional conventions. He lives with his family in an old house in the Midwest.

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