I've always followed ticket/ticket prices going back when I used to buy/sell as a teenage scalper outside of Texas games. Not sure if there has been much reporting/discussion but ticket inflation the past year or so has been absurd. I'll argue Texas tickets have been relatively good value compared to pro pricing. I definitely noticed it with Mavs ticket pricing this year (and never went to a game outside of free firm tix). Looking today at Stars round 1 playoff tix and lowers between blue line and goal are priced at $325 face (before fees). That prompted me to look back and saw I paid $185 face for same tickets (appears to be after fees) in round 1 2019.
The craziest was my wife was semi-interested in Taylor Swift in Dallas so I followed that market and never saw anything like it for a big venue concert. For the Sat night show I didn't see floor or "shitty" club level go less than $1200 or so per and most went well over $2K (and obviously the best seats went well above that). Obstructed view seats behind the stage where you couldn't see shit were going for > $700. Told my wife no fucking way. I mean we have, relatively, plenty of discretionary income but who are the people paying those prices (not to mention what you pay on top of it for parking, food, booze, etc.)? That's a $3K all in date night easily for not great seats.
And that's a $1K date night to a first round playoff game . It would be one thing if people were spending all discretionary income staying but travel still crazy as well.
WTF is the savings rate in the current inflationary environment with this level of discretionary income spend. Can't be great.