Forbes.com and TiqIQ, a ticket exchange company SB Nation recently partnered with, posted their findings of a study on the re-sale market of ticket sales. According to their findings, all 32 teams have a higher secondary market value. This surprises me given I have been a perennial scalper at events the last 10 years of my life and have seen thousands of empty seats across every level of Fedex.
I guess most people buy tickets days to weeks in advance, when prices are at their highest, but I found it shocking the Redskins were so high given last year the team was coming off the Jim Zorn era, in midst of a 6-10 season, and had a surplus of seats they could not sell outright. I mean...the Jaguars, who are consistently facing blackouts, have 125% resale rate?
Via our Redskins tickets portal, tickets for this week's Cardinals game start at $18 a pop!! Lower ball tickets start at $36!! That. is. absurd. I've contacted the author of this article for more info. Stay tuned.
The Top 10 list/prices after the jump: (Dallas is ranked dead last with only a 32% markup.
| Team | Secondary market/ | Average secondary | Average face |
| Delta value (%) | market ticket price ($) | value ticket price ($) | |
| (1) Saints | 259 | 268.84 | 74.99 |
| Bears | 216 | 295.17 | 93.55 |
| Ravens | 163 | 228.64 | 86.92 |
| Steelers | 160 | 193.17 | 74.32 |
| (5) Packers | 153 | 182.89 | 72.36 |
| Eagles | 151 | 173.13 | 69.00 |
| Chiefs | 135 | 161.07 | 68.44 |
| Jags | 125 | 128.85 | 57.34 |
| Colts | 111 | 180.40 | 85.34 |
| (10) Redskins | 111 | 166.77 | 79.13 |