Not a pickleball player but live close enough to a rec center to know the courts get used a lot.
$143,000 for either 563 doz/month or 5,400 doz/year (the calculator says those are not the same). Yearly total of either 81,072 or 64,800 pickleballs with a price between $1.75 and $2.20 each.
The best price I could find on the internet, even buying in bulk, was $2.50 which makes this look like a pretty good deal.
Using 81,072 pickleballs for a year means replacing 222 balls every day which sounds like a lot.
46 rec centers with pickleball courts and six courts each make 276 courts. 222 balls per day means replacing less than one ball per day for each pickleball court.
I have no idea what the expected life of a pickleball is but given how much use the courts seem to get, I'm a little surprised there aren't even more lost, stolen, stepped on, or worn out in a day.
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