Reminder - Hockey Ticket Preregistration

[calgARI '07]

I've heard like 170's for seniors but not sure

[Cactus12]

#'s posted on the athletics site

[Jordan 04]

[q]Below are the numbers that will get a chance to spend time on the line.[/q]

Hilarious.

[las224]

I got screwed out of BOTH senior and undergraduate numbers!!!!! SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!

Anyone want to sell their tickets to a committed senior who attended all the home games and a lot of the away games last year???

[BMac]

GAAAAAAAAAAAH! ARE YOU SERIOUS?

1-1051, 1476-1674
WHAT ARE THE GODDAMN ODDS THAT I WOULD BE BETWEEN 1051 and 1476?


sorry. I'm going to go drink now. anybody with tickets, you know where to send'em.

[David Harding]

[quote BMac]GAAAAAAAAAAAH! ARE YOU SERIOUS?

1-1051, 1476-1674
WHAT ARE THE GODDAMN ODDS THAT I WOULD BE BETWEEN 1051 and 1476?


sorry. I'm going to go drink now. anybody with tickets, you know where to send'em.[/quote]25.33%

[Tub(a)]

So 75% of the people that signed up for a number got tickets? Is that right? That seems really high.

[mikee293]

so how do they decide who picks first? number 1? or was that random too...

[imafrshmn]

[quote mikee293]so how do they decide who picks first? number 1? or was that random too...[/quote]

They start with the seniors, starting with the chosen number, then do the rest of the undergrad pool, starting with 1476.  So if you're getting your ticket from the undergrad pool, your actual line position is [150 + (line#-1475)] if you're 1674 or lower, and [150 + 199 + line#] if you're number 1 and up.

[imafrshmn]

In case anyone was wondering, the drawing method was not perfectly fair.  The total number of entries in the undergrad line was 1674.  They chose the starting number digit by digit.  This would have been fair if there were 1999 entries.  However, when there should have been a greater chance of starting the line with a number below 1000 than above, their system gave both numbers a 50% chance (they were basically pulling numbers from a hat, it seemed).  So, the starting number was higher than it should have been in a random system.  The result of all this is that the line numbers in the low 1000's were at a disadvantage to "win", while those with numbers in the low 0---'s were at a bit of an advantage.  If anyone knows how to calculate the exact degree of the effects of the drawing system on selection probabilities, that would be interesting.

[ebilmes]

So, there's no incentive to get to the line early? Seat selection will go in numerical order?

[nr53]

And here I was hoping that athletics would be cool and start from 1 so I could take advantage of my #46 senior line number. I'm happy that I got one (yay for 4 years of tickets), but a few of my friends missed out so that really sucks overall.

[las224]

In terms of order, where are grads going? Or do they have a separate section?

[Rosey]

The capitalist over here is laughing. **]

If they would only price the tickets so supply=demand, then the most dedicated fans would find a way to pay for them and there would be a lot fewer facetimers.

This is a perfect illustration of how rationing happens, and how it leads to unfair outcomes.  When you can be assured of getting something you really want by paying more for it, you have the choice to do so by sacrificing something else of lesser value.  When that thing is rationed, you have no choice: you are subject to a capricious roll of the dice.

Welcome to real life: you can't repeal the law of supply and demand.

Cheers,
Kyle

[canuck89]

Wow.  I didn't realize that was the method they used.  Yeah, you're totally correct in your assesment, though, I doubt athletics would even understand if they read your post, haha.   ::laugh::