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  We’ve so far seen the attendance dip blamed on high ticket prices
Generally, it's never been cheaper (in real dollars) to get in the door. Resale prices are artificially suppressed, and teams are offering more aggressive discounts on direct sales than ever.

MLB's deal making StubHub, a marketplace with no meaningful price floors, its official resale marketplace has been an economic disaster from which MLB will never recover.

Most games become a mad race to the bottom for prices as the game approaches, as buyers have learned to wait for the inevitable collapse. Result #1: few advance sales. Result #2: season ticket holders abandon their seats rather than take major losses every year. Result #3: taking advantage of kickbacks from StubHub to teams, now teams dump their own inventory on StubHub at fire-sale prices. Result #4: buyers kearn to not buy directly from teams, given the much cheaper inventory on StubHub. Result #5: even fewer advance sales and more abandonment of seats by season ticket holders. It's a death spiral.

The teams' only hope will be to opt out of the StubHub deal and use only resale marketplaces that have appropriate price floors (that vary with original ticket cost) and stop the predatory practice of competing with their own season ticket holders with heavily discounted tickets in official resale marketplaces.

Also, teams have to quit friction-heavy ticketing procedures such as mobile-only ticketing and punitive entry procedures.