Burmese pythons removed from Florida

Burmese pythons removed from the Florida Everglades and average MLB ticket prices, both climbing. Two completely unrelated American trends, on the same upward path for two decades. The python is, statistically, not in the seat.

Burmese pythons removed from Florida grew from a few dozen per year in the early 2000s to thousands annually by 2022 as the invasive species established a self-sustaining population in the Everglades and bounty programmes scaled. Average MLB ticket prices climbed from about 19 dollars in 2002 to over 40 by 2022 as inflation, dynamic pricing, and demand-segmentation lifted unit revenue. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same twenty years saw both a wildlife-management response and a ticket-pricing inflation. Different ecosystems.

An invasive species and a pricing strategy both kept growing. The decade was good to compounding numbers.