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Types of participans
Competitors, Fitness participants, nature participants
Team identification & sponsorship
Fans support a team's sponsors because view it as consistent with goals and values of the team
Demand determinants *
1) Consumer preferences

2) Income


3) Price of good


4) Price of other goods



Ticket prices are set by team management. If price increases...
Income effect: Purchasing power reduced

Substitution effect: naturally try to substitute for something that is cheaper

What influences attendance more than ticket prices?
Facility comforts, venue and parking access
If teams allegiance is not geographically based, identity associated with..
Logos and colors
Consumer-theory model of attendance determinants
1) Consumer preferences

2) Economic determinants


3) Quality of viewing (timing of events, ect.)


4) Contest characteristics (between rivals you want to see)


5) Supply capacity




Im going to a game cuz I can and its cheap and i got some nice seats and i wanna see them get beat and i can kick out my feet



Motives for watching sports on TV
1) Fanship

2) Learning


3) Release


4) Companionship (watching to hang out)


5) Filler (watching to fill time)

Loyalty
Loyalty to player, team, league, or sport
Hunt, Bristol & Bradshaw's classification scheme for motivation
1) Temporary


2) Local


3) Devoted


4) Fanatical


5) Dysfunstional

Temporary motivation
-"fan" not part of self identification

-BIRGing motivation


-CORFing

Local
-Identifies with geographic area

-Devotion leaves with displacement

Devoted
-Increased degree of attachment

-"fan" closer part of a sense of self


-Not most critical or central part of self-definition

Fanatical
-Important part of self identification

-Other things may be more important


-Engages in behaviour beyond a normal devoted fan


-Behaviour accepted by significant others

Dysfunctional
-Being a fan primary method of self identification

-May engage in violent or disruptive behaviour


-Identification interferes with normal life

Sensation seeking
-Will follow sports that are exciting

-Thrill seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, bored easily


-Seek out intense experiences and may take risks to do so

Issues regarding fans
-Fan support and ticket prices

-Allegiance


-Canada-US differences in hockey


-Gender differences


-Displacement



Fan support and ticket prices
-Ticket prices have gone up

-Marginal revenue productivity theory states that salaries will only increase if:


-MP increases (they become more productive)


-MR increases (Fans increase willingness to pay)



Who drives players salaries?
FANS! WOOO!
Allegiance
-Social identity and group norms

-Purchase intentions


-Brand loyalty


-Brand communities



Canada-US differences in hockey *
-More positive impact of violence and fighting on US attendance

-Canadian fans value quality of opponent more that US fans


-US fans attend to see best players, canadian fans attend to see best teams

Gender differences
-Men prefer combative sports

-women as likely to self-identify as aport fans, but not as important to self-identity


-men spend more time discussing sport

Displacement
-Fans feeling left out of process

-Marginalization of 'traditional' fans


-Seeking new fans at expense of established fans


-'corporatization' of the entertainment product (conspicuous consumption)