Fantastic analysis. I think there will be more grown men with gloves at tonights game than the kids. Normally I feel foolish packing one along, but if I had tickets, I'd definitely bring it.
Very interesting article, except for the ticket price graph, whose lower limit is $40. Why show a bar graph that doesn't start at 0? It eliminates the purpose of bar graphs - to visually compare the magnitude of values.
A somewhat related question, how come in baseball they are so happy to give away any ball that even goes remotely near the crowd? Wouldn't each ball be worth enough that they would want to cut down on the amount needed per game?<p>Here in Australia on cricket ball condition effects the game so you'd defiantly not want fans taking the ball and in AFL they don't want people taking the balls although they do switch balls around often during a match. I guess that would be virtually 0 chance that the player could get the 600th run ball back for himself?