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=== Assistant: Good question — but there isn’t enough public data to precisely calculate how much revenue Cincinnati Reds made in 2025… ===
Good question — but there isn’t enough public data to precisely calculate how much revenue Cincinnati Reds made in 2025 just from attendance at Great American Ball Park, for several reasons. Here’s what can — and can’t — be known, and a rough ballpark (no pun intended) estimate.

==== - The total 2025 home attendance for the Reds was 2,170,963. Baseball Reference<ref>{{cite web|title=Baseball Reference|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-misc.shtml|publisher=Baseball Reference|access-date=2025-12-10}}</ref> ====
* The publicly reported total revenue for the Reds in 2025 was USD $325 million. Forbes<ref>{{cite web|title=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/teams/cincinnati-reds/|publisher=forbes.com|access-date=2025-12-10}}</ref>

==== Revenue from “attendance” isn’t just ticket sales. It might include concessions, parking, merchandise, etc. Also: ====
* We do not know the exact average paid ticket price times the number of tickets sold by the team — price varies by seat, opponent, promotions, discounts, etc.
* We don’t know what portion of the stadium-gate attendance was paid vs. complimentary (e.g. promos, giveaways, staff, friends/family) — which affects actual ticket revenue.
* “Attendance-derived revenue” is only part of total revenue; broadcasting rights, sponsorships, licensing, and other streams typically make up a significant share for a pro sports team. Yankees Savant<ref>{{cite web|title=Yankees Savant|url=https://yankeessavant.com/the-business-of-baseball-part-i-how-mlb-teams-make-money/|publisher=Yankees Savant|access-date=2025-12-10}}</ref>

==== If we make a simplifying assumption — for the sake of illustration — that: ====
* The average paid ticket price in 2025 for the Reds was roughly USD $50–75 (given league-wide median/resale ranges for 2025 often center around that ballpark for many teams). MLB Analysis<ref>{{cite web|title=MLB Analysis|url=https://mlbanalysis.com/news/mlb-2025-average-resale-ticket-prices-for-all-30-teams-revealed/|publisher=MLB Analysis|access-date=2025-12-10}}</ref>
* All 2,170,963 attendance were paid tickets (i.e. no freebies/comped tickets) — which is almost certainly an overestimate.

Then:

<syntaxhighlight>Lower bound estimate: 2,170,963 × $50  = ~$108.5 million  
Upper bound estimate: 2,170,963 × $75  = ~$162.8 million  

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So ticket-sales revenue might plausibly be in the ballpark of USD $110 – $160 million (2025).

If you added typical additional per-fan spending (concessions, parking, merchandise), actual “attendance-driven revenue” could be meaningfully higher — though precisely how much higher depends a lot on the team’s per-capita spend, which is not publicly broken out for 2025.

==== - If ticket-sales were $110–$160 M and total revenue was $325 M, then attendance (tickets only) might represent roughly ~ 34%–49% of overall revenue. ====
* That range is consistent with general industry estimates: many pro-sports franchises derive around one-third of revenue from game-day attendance/spending (tickets + concessions). Yankees Savant<ref>{{cite web|title=Yankees Savant|url=https://yankeessavant.com/the-business-of-baseball-part-i-how-mlb-teams-make-money/|publisher=Yankees Savant|access-date=2025-12-10}}</ref>

If you like — I can build a spreadsheet model of the 2025 Reds revenue: with separate estimated rows for ticket sales, concessions/merchandise, broadcast & media, sponsorships, and other, using typical MLB league ratios + what’s known publicly.
Would you like me to build that now?