Author: Chris Ford
NCAA Football Attendance, Weeks 2 & 3: Hurricane Hijinks!
Time again for your week in review on NCAA Division I Football attendance. Average attendance was 30,894 for week 2, up over 1,000 from week one. Week three saw an average attendance of 29,567, largely due to hurricane related low attendance. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance week 2: 755 –…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/10: NL Ejection Title Imminent?
After last week, the American League had narrowed the ejection gap between the two leagues down to one ejection. Upon hearing this news from their diligent reading of AMSTS, the National League decided that this was the week to start putting an effort in. THIRTEEN ejections by the NL alone, compared to the AL’s one. …
2018 NCAA Football Attendance Week 1: KU Sends 20K Home Sad
Time again for your week in review on NCAA Division I Football attendance. Average attendance was 29,850 this week, a good starting point for the season. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I attendance week 1: 1,632 – Stetson vs Point University. Not a whole lot on offer for fans of the Hatters…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/3: Ejection Comeback!
The American League took their time, waiting in the water all season, letting the National League think they’d win their first ejections title since AMSTS has been tracking the thing. That is, until September rolled around. The Junior Circuit finally got serious about winning the ejections race and pulled to within one ejection of the…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/27: Attendance Plummets!
Teams really outdid themselves last week trying to attract fewer fans than normal. The Marlins continued to dominate the game, however, with only 6,587 showing up to see the Braves on Thursday. However, the A’s, Rays, Pirates, and White Sox also joined the Marlins in being outdrawn by AAA teams on the week. The twist? …
2018 NCAA Football Travel: How Far Every FBS Team Will Go This Year
Every fall, the college football season fires up and gives fans an opportunity to eschew responsibility in favor of sitting on the couch every Saturday for 15 weeks. Beautiful. With 844 games on the docket for the regular season, plus conference championships and bowls, all of our couch time comes at the expense of plenty of travel for…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/20: The NL Strikes Back!
The National League strikes back this week with seven ejections to the AL’s one, meaning we once again have separation in the season ejection rate. Attendance continued to be high, reaching the highest level of the season, with no games under 10,000 in attendance all week! Only six teams managed below 20,000, while seven managed…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/13: Tempers Flair
It was the highest ejection week in the last three months last week, with eight ejections across the bigs last week. The American League continues its gradual cut into the NL lead, reducing the margin to NL 60, AL 58 after this week. The NL looking to win the ejections race for the first time…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/5: Dog Days
The dog days of summer are here again, and with it we have games in brutal heat and everyone too hot to argue balls and strikes. The lowest ejection week of the season, with only three getting sent to the showers early. Only three teams averaged below 70 degrees on the week, with half the…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/30: Full Stadium Mania
Attendance was great last week, with a third of the league reporting a game with greater than 40,000 in attendance. Given that the American League playoffs seem to already be set at the end of July, this is particularly impressive. As for the bad…. another Marlins home stand. And with that, the Marlins once again…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/23: Lots of Records!
A short update this week, with the All-Star break limiting the number of games played on the week, but not the number of records set! Only the Rays were outdrawn by a handful of minor league teams last week, a big improvement over most weeks. The short overview: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams: Tampa (outdrawn…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/16: How Low Can We Go?
Once again the Marlins were the only team to be outdrawn by minor league teams last week. But it gets worse. The Miami Marlins are the first team since AMSTS has tracked MLB and MiLB attendance to ever be outdrawn by a Rookie League team in the same week. The Ogden Raptors drew 5,368 on…