World Cup 2014 tickets: general discussion: NOT for trading or selling

That's the methodology. I know that there will more of a bias toward CAT2-3 than CAT1 but haven't seen that breakout anywhere, so kept it simple.

 

Ah ok fair enough, all good. Was hoping you were wrong, as it would mean more tickets available in the PMA stage then =) lol

 

Beware the misleading statements made by the Fanatics and GG Army - All they care about is taking your hard earned $$$ to pay for their massively overinflated tour packages before you even secure tickets.

This data is great! One more question, how are you "seeing" the data on the ticketing pages???? Is it embedded in the code on the webpage or something?

 

The ticketing website does requests to the FIFA server to retrieve information about availability. This is not directly on the page's code, instead being on another page which is dinamically accessed by the page you see. For whatever reason, instead of just retrieving the colors each game cat should be showing, the page retrieves the number of ticket requests, and then translates it into colors. These numbers can be accessed by simply watching the requests done by the website, which can easily be done, even with just the developer tools embedded into most browsers.

 

oh dont worry im not going thru any "tours" been to europe a couple of times and always do my trips and bookings myself to save thousands =)

was just quoting the info, although yeah, still a month to go, way too long IMHO

 

they clearly have a different (lesser) quota in pma's that trigger the high demand red.

your multiple question marks hurt my brain...

 

I checked the numbers for the England PMA yesterday. I just checked them again today and they have completely changed. Not changed like there has been an influx of applications, but changed so that one of the set of numbers must be completely wrong.

It also appears that thresholds for the colour coding has changed to 35 and 80.

 

Yes you are right. It's 35 and 80 now.

Time to republish the charts. Coming soon.

I will check if the PMA numbers for logins I have with me have changed drastically.

 

Republishing PMA numbers as the color coding has changed:

Black = No availability/No demand = Less than 0
Green = Low demand = Less than 35
Amber = Medium demand = More than 35 and Less than 80
Red = High demand = More than 80

Something weird is going on:

This was on January 3, 2014:

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This is just now:

 

Whoa, 19,000+ obese tickets applied for in the opening match through Brazil PMA? Something's not right here...the round numbers in the wheelchair categories for Argentina, Brazil and Chile are also rather suspicious. Maybe they're testing something?

 

Yeah, W, M and O is definitely test data.

But what happened to BRA GM1 Cat1? 65536?

Can you guys use your PMA logins and confirm that the color coding is matching with mine?

 

McDonalds are one of the official partners and have promised a free Big Mac for everyone attending the opening game.

 

There is no way that the current data is accurate. The weighting towards Cat 1 tickets, even given the buy-cat-1-tick-lower-cat strategy, can't be correct.

 

wow. not what i think of at all when i think of brazil fans..

 

Surely a test value, I don't think we even have that much obesity to begin with

 

Test value or multiplied by 100? Strange they're all multiples of 100.

Further to that all the cat 1 figures end with 0, 3 or 6. Very strange.

 

Those do look like they're multiplied by 100. The values of the previous update, with a few added tickets here and there, match the values of today multiplied by 100. Now what about those CAT 1 figures? Those look a bit stranger.

 

Yes, there seems to be some relation.

For example:

This isn't too precise but I could see some pattern:

- All CAT1 numbers are multiplied by 4.
- All CAT2 numbers are divided by 2.
- All CAT3 numbers are divided by 7.

I did find some exceptions though but generally speaking you can tell that CAT1 numbers are made to look higher and CAT2 and CAT3 lower.

Anyway, is this a genuine mistake or is FIFA trying to bloat/shrink the figures deliberately?

Mind boggling.

 

Wow this really helped, good work. Didnt realize the PMA chances were so good. Looks like Im joining the Mexico supporters group too.

 

I checked for BRA, FRA and URU: the values are a little bit higher than the ones of your table. This means that those numbers are correct.

May be FIFA's designers are fixing bugs in the software and they are testing the changes in the live site. Or they just decided to confuse us and started to put random values in the most required games...

 

Maybe they're purposedly scrambling the numbers so people can't see them the way we are.

 

What about the regular lottery? Are those numbers altered as well?

 

woah, well i checked the PMA numbers last night, and just then, massive upspike in numbers. has anything else in the response changed that could shed some light?

 

Can you share the numbers for the England PMA?
I would appreciate that. Thanks,

 

Opening match prices now being debited.

Following the Final Draw which took place on 6th December 2013 in Costa do Sauípe, the Match Schedule for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ is now known.


Croatia was drawn as team A2, and will play in the Opening Match in São Paulo on Thursday, 12th June 2014 against Brazil!


As you have purchased one or more Team Specific Ticket Series to follow Croatia, the FIFA Ticketing Centre will process an additional charge of up to USD 352 (Category 1), USD 215 (Category 2) or USD 143 (Category 3) per Ticketing Product within your Ticket Application for the Opening Match Premium. This charge was explained during the application process, but if you would like to review the details, please visit www.fifa.com/tickets. Details of why the Opening Match Premium is charged can be found atTicket Prices.