Every sports fan dreams of having season tickets. It's the ultimate sign of loyalty—guaranteed seats, playoff priority, and the pride of being a true supporter. But there's a reality that season ticket sellers rarely mention: when life happens and plans change, suddenly those 81 games feel less like a dream and more like a puzzle you didn't sign up to solve.
The Numbers Behind Season Tickets
Baseball season tickets bring their own challenges. A full season includes 81 home games spanning six months from April through September. Even the most passionate fans typically attend only 30-40 games per season, as work trips, family events, and vacations inevitably create conflicts. That leaves 40-50 games requiring alternative solutions.
For holders with a four-seat package, this means managing 160-200 individual tickets throughout the season. What started as supporting your team becomes a time-consuming job.
What Every Season Ticket Holder Faces
"A season ticket for baseball is 81 games. Most people don't go to 81 games," explains Max Kaplan, Founder of Ticket Buyback. "You're basically becoming your own professional ticket reseller, even though I'm sure you have a full-time job and it's not what you want to be doing to spend your time."
Season ticket holders know this frustration too well. Online forums and social media communities dedicated to sports ticketing are filled with fans discussing the burden of managing unused tickets.
Fans want to support their teams and attend games, but reselling dozens of tickets turns enjoyment into work.
What Managing Unused Tickets Actually Involves
Traditional resale platforms require a lot of time that many season ticket holders don't expect:
Creating Individual Listings
Each game needs its own separate listing. You'll create 40+ individual entries, each requiring you to select the date, enter section and seat information, and write descriptions. Even working quickly, the initial listing process takes several hours before any tickets sell.
Researching Market Prices
Ticket values change a lot based on many factors. A Tuesday night game against a less popular opponent might sell for half of what you paid, while Saturday's big rivalry game could sell for double the original price.
You need to check several things for each game:
- Day of the week
- How popular the visiting team is
- How well your team is playing
- Weather forecasts for outdoor venues
- Holidays and local events
Making Ongoing Price Changes
The market changes constantly throughout the season. Prices you set weeks ago often become outdated as things change. An opponent's star player gets injured, your team starts winning, or weather forecasts change for outdoor games. For someone managing 40 games, this means making well over a hundred price changes throughout the season.
The Mental Stress
Beyond the time spent, managing unused season tickets creates real stress:
Too Many Decisions: Each game requires multiple decisions about when to list, what price to set, when to lower the price, and when to accept that a ticket won't sell.
Money Worries: Watching tickets get close to game day without selling creates real tension. You've already spent that money, and now you're watching it disappear.
Growing Frustration: What started as supporting your team becomes wrapped up with spreadsheets, research, and unsold listings. The experience shifts from fun to stressful.
When the Love of the Game Meets Reality
For many season ticket holders, there comes a moment of honest reflection: is this still worth it? The question isn't about loving your team—that hasn't changed. It's about whether the benefits still outweigh the burden.
Why Fans Stay Despite the Hassle
Guaranteed Playoff Access: In many markets, playoff tickets are only available to season ticket holders. Missing a potential championship run can feel unthinkable.
Building Community: Your seat neighbors become familiar faces. You share celebrations and build genuine friendships that single-game attendance can't replicate.
The Perfect Seat Location: Great seats often have waiting lists measured in years. Letting go of prime locations means potentially never getting them back.
Family Tradition: For some families, season tickets span generations, representing memories with parents, children, or grandparents.
The key is finding balance between these genuine benefits and the practical challenges of managing unused inventory. When the burden becomes too heavy, it doesn't mean you love your team less, it means you need better tools.
Getting Your Time Back
It comes down to this: would you rather spend 50+ hours managing individual listings throughout the season, or handle your entire unused inventory in minutes?
This is exactly what Ticket Buyback's season ticket feature addresses. "You can click the season ticket option and then it will give you an instant quote for every game for the rest of the season," Kaplan explains. "In one step you can get an instant quote for all of your unused tickets."
How Ticket Buyback's Season Ticket Feature Works
Ticket Buyback built a solution specifically for season ticket holders. Instead of treating each game separately, you manage your entire season at once.
1. Enter Your Details Once
On the seat details page, select "Season Ticket" and enter your information one time, your section, row, and any seat restrictions. You'll also see a note that you'll choose quantities per game on the next step.
2. Get Instant Quotes for Every Game
After entering your details, you'll see a complete list of every remaining game on your schedule with individual per-seat quotes. Each game shows:
- The date and opponent
- Game time
- Price per seat
- A quantity selector for how many tickets you want to sell
3. Choose What to Sell
Decide game by game:
- Sell two tickets to Tuesday's game
- Keep all four for Saturday's rivalry matchup
- Sell three tickets to a weekday afternoon game
- Sell all four to multiple games you'll miss
You control which games to sell and how many tickets per game.
4. Transfer Your Tickets and Get Paid
Once you accept the quote, you'll create an account (or log in) and enter your payout details through secure processors. Then you'll transfer your tickets using the email address provided, through whatever app holds your tickets, AXS, SeatGeek, MLB Ballpark, or other platforms.
Once Ticket Buyback receives your tickets, that's it. You're done. You'll receive a confirmation email, and payment arrives three business days after each event.
Moving Forward as a Season Ticket Holder
Season tickets represent both a big financial investment and a meaningful commitment to supporting your team. When life prevents you from attending every game, which happens to virtually all season ticket holders, you deserve an easy method for managing the games you'll miss.
Whether you're facing 20 unused games or 50, the question isn't whether you should recover your investment. The question is whether you want to spend dozens of hours managing tickets individually, or handle everything efficiently so you can focus on actually enjoying the games you attend.
You can explore Ticket Buyback's season ticket feature to get instant quotes for all your remaining games.
Season ticket ownership should mean you're a dedicated fan with guaranteed access to your team's games, not an unwilling ticket broker managing complex inventory. That's what season ticket ownership in 2025 should look like—and fortunately, that experience is finally becoming available to fans who deserve it.