Quoted from ifpapinball:It's mostly positive because the average number of events played per year in the US/Canada is 4.8 events per year.
This is a meaningless number. What does that number jump to if you eliminate all the people that did just 1? As mentioned by another poster, without standard deviation or variance, average is a misleading number.
Quoted from ifpapinball:The feedback I'm getting from players that play in 5 or fewer events per year is that "$5 isn't a big deal per year".
Really? Because the feedback I'm getting from those players is 'why should I pay into something that I won't be able to win. I don't want to pay for imaginary points'