Are you a sad, Phoenix-area sports fan that just finished suffering through a bad baseball season is know staring down a long, cold winter following the Suns, Cardinals, and Coyotes? Hopefully you can find some solace in the fact that that witnessing all that losing is a bargain compared to other locales that are home to the four major sports.
That’s what one study out of UC Berkeley has found. The people at datascience@Berkeley, the school’s online masters in data science program, recently published “Cheer Smarter: Using Advanced Metrics to Analyze the Cost of Being a Sports Fan,” Among other things, they found:
- The least expensive place to be a pro sports fan?