The average ticket price has risen from $22.77 (2007) to $32.99 (2019). It doesn't take a smart person to figure out the problem with MLB baseball. But yes, let's jack up the whole system to spark an interest. Attendance for most major sports is dropping: - From 2014 to ’18, attendance across the FBS (college fb) fell by 7.6%. - Here’s how the NHL’s minus-1.32% decline from 2013-14 to 2018-19 compares to the other major sports leagues. Major League Baseball (MLB): minus-5.88% National Basketball Association (NBA): plus-2.59% National Football League (NFL): minus-1.98% Major League Soccer (MLS): plus-17.56% Out of the five major sports leagues in the United States, three of the five, including the NHL, have posted declines in average attendance between 2013-14 to 2018-19. Two of the leagues posted growth, the NBA and MLS. If you’re wondering why the MLS percent change jumps off the charts it’s due to their success in expansion, Atlanta United has been able to consistently average 50,000 in attendance since its debut in 2017. I think there are too many options to watch games at home. You can argue that Cost is an issue and it might be as they try to get more or more out of the fans and on the other side you can argue there are too many options and that is also valid at how much each one of them are changing to get into the door. I think it does play a bit of a roll but not as much as you think. The real issue of the drop in attendance goes to something that will be viewed totally off topic for it isn't even sports related and that would be Birth Rate. The number of kids born have drop every year for the past 19 Years. People die and they are not being replace as fast those days and a drop in attendance at a sporting event is clearly one of the impacts from it and the truth is that is an issue that is only coming into play now and unless people deside to start having more kids then it is a issue that is only going to get worse. Anyway, I see allot of kids at the games and they do a really good job at getting them interested in the game and keep coming back. So I think drawing new fans really isn't an issue and the whole issue is there just isn't enough of them to get.