Sports Tickets Weekly Episode 19: Eighteen dollars for the best game in basketball
Last night the Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series, and the cheapest seat in the ballpark cost eight hundred and twenty-three dollars.
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Sports Tickets Weekly Episode 19: Eighteen dollars for the best game in basketball
The Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series last night, and the game that decided it was the cheapest kind of ticket this show has priced all month. Game 5 at Tropicana Field stood at 823 dollars on TickPick and 964 on StubHub in the snapshot taken five days earlier. Game 1 in Milwaukee, on the same board, was 2,254. 1
Baseball is finished for the year, and the market reset the moment the trophy went over the rail. The most expensive ticket on this week's board is 290 dollars, and the best basketball game in the league is available for 18.
Where the title was decided
Milwaukee lost one game in the series and won the other four. Game 1 finished 3-2, with Jacob Misiorowski winning it and Trevor Megill closing it. 2 Game 2 finished 5-4, after Sal Frelick tied the score with his first home run in three months. 3 Game 3 in St. Petersburg was 10-1. 4 Tampa Bay's only win came in Game 4, 4-3. 5 Game 5 finished 4-1, with William Contreras driving in a run for a 3-0 lead and Jackson Chourio taking a hit away in the eighth. 1
Contreras was named series MVP. Cooper Pratt's bat from Game 2 is headed to the Hall of Fame, and Christian Yelich spent part of the night talking about Bob Uecker. 6 The early odds for next season already place the Dodgers ahead of the team that just won it.
The five floors this show quoted across the series were 2,254, 2,070, 776, 864 and 823 dollars. The two games in Tampa were the two cheapest, and one of them was the clincher.
Houston's start, and the game it matters for
Houston is 5-0, the best record in the league, after a 132-100 win over Milwaukee in which Fred VanVleet scored 24. Oklahoma City lost for the first time in the same night's slate, 120-96 in Dallas, with Cooper Flagg scoring 26 and adding eight assists. 7
Memphis is 4-0 and Portland 3-0, and those two meet tonight. New Orleans and Sacramento are both 0-4 and play each other. 8
Saturday's Thunder-Rockets game at Toyota Center is this week's value pick: get-in at 18 dollars on Vivid Seats, listed average 132, upper-level best-value rows 51 to 77, lower bowl from 154. 910
Carolina's fast start, Vancouver's slow one
Edmonton beat Calgary 4-0 on Wednesday, with Tristan Jarry stopping all 24 shots. Washington beat Philadelphia 5-2 on two goals from Jordan Kyrou, Colorado beat New Jersey 5-2, and Seattle beat Toronto 5-4. 11
Carolina leads the league at 10-2-2. Boston is 9-3-1, Edmonton 9-2-2 and Minnesota 9-3-2. Vancouver is 3-10-1, and Philadelphia is 3-8-4. 12 Edmonton visits Madison Square Garden on Sunday from 92 dollars. 13
Week 7, and what it left
Minnesota is 6-0 and alone at the top. Kansas City lost 20-3 in Seattle and San Francisco lost 29-20 in Atlanta, both for the first time. Miami's first win was 28-25 over the Jets, and Dallas beat Philadelphia 38-21 on Monday, leaving the Eagles at 2-5 on five straight losses. 1415
The Chargers are 0-6 and play at the Rams on Sunday. Four teams are on bye this week: New Orleans, the Jets, San Francisco and Houston. 16
The week's price bands
Each line gives the floor, the average where the marketplace published one, and the upper end where it was visible.
- Ravens at Bills, Sunday, Highmark Stadium. Floor 265 on TickPick, 268 on Vivid Seats and 274 on SeatGeek. 171819 Averages of 478 on Vivid and 836.72 on TickPick, whose top listing is 14,268. Vivid's best-value rows run 309 to 327 in the upper deck.
- Bears at Seahawks, Monday, Lumen Field. Floor 290 on Vivid Seats, on an average of 516. The upper level starts at 311; lower-level rows run 453 to 549. 20
- Thunder at Rockets, Saturday, Toyota Center. Floor 18 on Vivid Seats, average 132. Upper-level best-value rows run 51 to 77; the lower bowl starts at 154. 9
- Oilers at Rangers, Sunday, Madison Square Garden. From 92. 13
The football floor agrees within nine dollars across three marketplaces. SeatGeek returned a readable page for this game after a month of blocked and empty ones; its Bears and Rockets pages did not load, so the basketball figure is Vivid's alone.
The two-week fantasy window
StatMuse's October 15 to October 29 window is led by Drake Maye at 52.2, ahead of Michael Penix Jr. at 43.5, Tyler Shough at 41.8 and Tony Pollard at 41.1. 21 Pollard is the only running back in the top five, with 205 rushing yards and three touchdowns across the two games.
The byes remove Shough and C.J. Stroud from lineups this week, with New Orleans and Houston both off. 16 Maye plays at Miami, Penix plays at Tampa Bay, and Pollard is at home to Cincinnati.
Every price here was read on October 29, 2026, between 16:04 and 16:05 UTC. Vivid Seats displays all-in prices with fees included; TickPick adds no service fee to its listed price; SeatGeek's figure is the "from" price on its own schedule listing. Listings move after publication.
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- 8ESPN — NBA standings, 2026-27
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- 9Vivid Seats — Thunder at Rockets, October 31, 2026
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- 12ESPN — NHL standings, 2026-27
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- 17TickPick — Buffalo Bills home schedule
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- 18Vivid Seats — Ravens at Bills, November 1, 2026
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- 20Vivid Seats — Bears at Seahawks, November 2, 2026
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