Cubs to have post-season ticket lottery

[Jon]

I can't recall how many tickets were made available for the NLDS last year, but it was well under 15,000 per game. Season ticket holders and seats held back for use by the Cubs and MLB take up the majority.

[UMFan83]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2 tickets for one game per entry equates to about 60,000 "winners" for the NLDS. How many entries do you all think there were for this. I feel like there's pretty good odds that I will at least get on set of tickets. The suspense is killing me.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but you're forgetting to account for season ticket holders.

 

And I'm sure MLB demands a couple thousand a game to hand to media, family, celebs, vips, etc. even in the NLDS

[kujay]

I haven't gotten anything. I'm pretty sure they send you an email even if you haven't been selected.

 

Yeah, they do. I got one from the Brewers last week.

[UMFan83]

I can't recall how many tickets were made available for the NLDS last year, but it was well under 15,000 per game. Season ticket holders and seats held back for use by the Cubs and MLB take up the majority.

 

Didn't the season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing extra tickets early, or am I getting the Cubs and Bears mixed up?

[nilodnayr]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2 tickets for one game per entry equates to about 60,000 "winners" for the NLDS. How many entries do you all think there were for this. I feel like there's pretty good odds that I will at least get on set of tickets. The suspense is killing me.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but you're forgetting to account for season ticket holders.

 

 

Working in the other direction is the fact that most likely there are going to be more people who "win" the lottery and are able to get to the VWR than there will be tickets available.

 

Roughly 40,000 tickets per game, what are there, like 20,000 season ticketholders (purely a guess), so youre down to 20K per game, 3 games, 1 person gets 2 tickets so thats 30K "unique" buyers. So, I'm guessing at least 60K people will be allowed to "win" the lottery to get through the VWR.

[FearTheBako]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2 tickets for one game per entry equates to about 60,000 "winners" for the NLDS. How many entries do you all think there were for this. I feel like there's pretty good odds that I will at least get on set of tickets. The suspense is killing me.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but you're forgetting to account for season ticket holders.

 

Ahh true. Forgot about that. Still seems like some pretty good odds. Obviously all of us are aware of this process, but I have talked to a lot of more casual fans who have no idea that this is the process for tickets this year. Hopefully that will give us a little advantage. Trying to stay positive here.

[SouthSideRyan]

I keep checking my email and getting excited seeing Inbox(1)

 

The free business card offer is nice, but it wasn't really what I had in mind.

[nilodnayr]

I can't recall how many tickets were made available for the NLDS last year, but it was well under 15,000 per game. Season ticket holders and seats held back for use by the Cubs and MLB take up the majority.

 

Didn't the season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing extra tickets early, or am I getting the Cubs and Bears mixed up?

 

 

Cubs season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing their tickets early. My boss's boss is a bleacher season ticket holder.

[Jon]

I can't recall how many tickets were made available for the NLDS last year, but it was well under 15,000 per game. Season ticket holders and seats held back for use by the Cubs and MLB take up the majority.

 

Didn't the season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing extra tickets early, or am I getting the Cubs and Bears mixed up?

 

 

Cubs season ticket holders get dibs on purchasing their tickets early. My boss's boss is a bleacher season ticket holder.

Yeah, he's thinking of the Bears club season ticket holders. Cubs season ticket holders can only purchase the seats they already have and not any additional ones.

[ChiCubsFan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2 tickets for one game per entry equates to about 60,000 "winners" for the NLDS. How many entries do you all think there were for this. I feel like there's pretty good odds that I will at least get on set of tickets. The suspense is killing me.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but you're forgetting to account for season ticket holders.

 

Ahh true. Forgot about that. Still seems like some pretty good odds. Obviously all of us are aware of this process, but I have talked to a lot of more casual fans who have no idea that this is the process for tickets this year. Hopefully that will give us a little advantage. Trying to stay positive here.

 

Yeah, the chances are actually fairly decent. A lot of people from around here will get selected. I just fear that I won't be one of them. But you're right, a lot of casual fans don't know about it.

[UMFan83]

I guarantee you that scalers have tons of entries in there that will skew the regular poster's odds

[nilodnayr]

I guarantee you that scalers have tons of entries in there that will skew the regular poster's odds

 

 

Yeah, I wouldn't consider our odds fairly decent at all. It all depends on how many people they let through to the VWR (2x amount of tickets available? 5x amount of tickets available?), but our odds individually are terrible, and cumulatively as a board, not great.

 

For example, it doesn't sound like anyone has gotten picked for the other teams' lotteries. I'm sure less of us signed up for those than for the Cubs, but its indicative of the process.

 

If Jon is right and we are looking at somewhere south of 15,000 seats per game, we are probably looking at roughly 20,000 unique buyers. Given that as UM mentioned above, I'm sure the scalpers have worked around it somehow, we are looking at even less unique buyers.

 

I sure hope a lot of people get selected, but I highly doubt it.

[ChiCubsFan]

15. Over or under on how many people on this board post that they got accepted?

[SouthSideRyan]

15. Over or under on how many people on this board post that they got accepted?

 

Over.

[Jon]

I guarantee you that scalers have tons of entries in there that will skew the regular poster's odds

 

 

Yeah, I wouldn't consider our odds fairly decent at all. It all depends on how many people they let through to the VWR (2x amount of tickets available? 5x amount of tickets available?), but our odds individually are terrible, and cumulatively as a board, not great.

 

For example, it doesn't sound like anyone has gotten picked for the other teams' lotteries. I'm sure less of us signed up for those than for the Cubs, but its indicative of the process.

 

If Jon is right and we are looking at somewhere south of 15,000 seats per game, we are probably looking at roughly 20,000 unique buyers. Given that as UM mentioned above, I'm sure the scalpers have worked around it somehow, we are looking at even less unique buyers.

 

I sure hope a lot of people get selected, but I highly doubt it.

I think it was under 10,000 per game, actually. I remember being surprised at how low it was.

[Jon]

Found the 2007 info:

 

It took all of 30 minutes for the Cubs to sell the remaining 15,000 tickets for what would be the first two home games of the post-season should the Cubs make it.

 

The fortunate few who got through on the phone or via the Internet assured the Cubs of sellouts for both games, which look to be Games 3 and 4 of the Division Series on Oct. 6th and 7th at Wrigley Field.

 

Considering most season ticket holders exercised their option to purchase playoffs tickets -- and that several thousand tickets went to the club and Major League Baseball -- only about 7,500 tickets were available for each post-season game.

 

Those who were shut out on tickets at Wrigley and have the money to travel should be rooting for a Cubs-Diamondbacks series, since tickets could be available for games at Chase Field.

[KPet]

I got tickets last year with the VWR. (God bless the Virtual Waiting Room).

 

I'm pretty sure I remember them saying that they released 5,000 tickets per game.

[BleacherBadger]

And we are now past 2:30 CST

[Sorianos hop]

Still waiting...

 

:x

[KPet]

If we get through the LCS, imagine how unbearable this wait will be the day they inform us about World Series tickets.

[C.C.]

Nothing still. Scam.

[wade]

I'm trying to tell myself that no news is good news.

[UMFan83]

Nothing still. Scam.

 

The Chicago Cubs have announced today that Wrigley Field Premium Tickets, owned by the Tribune Company, has collectively won the entire playoff ticket lottery and is given exclusive rights to purchase all home NLDS playoff games. This remarkable 51 trillion to one long shot was made possible by complete and utter luck and not by some sort of scam. Wrigley Field Premium Tickets has announced that due to their good fortune, they will offer some of these tickets to customers at only a 500% markup.

[bcl412]

I thought that once the Cubs clinched I would get some schoolwork done but noooooooooooo, I am refreshing my email to see if I get a stupid playoff ticket confirmation sheet. At least I am spending my life wisely.

[KPet]

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

I can just picture Sam Zell at his desk ordering his secretary to register herself and all of her friends.