Author: Chris Ford
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 1: The Journey Begins!
College basketball is back, and with it we bring you our weekly update on attendance. As in most years, the first week of the season does fairly well, with all 353 Division I teams holding on to their dreams of winning (or maybe just making) the NCAA Tournament. Let’s begin our journey through NCAA Basketball’s…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 11: Big Ten, Little Crowd
Week eleven was marked by cold weather nationwide, but with it attendance found a way to rise 355 fans to an average of 24,350 last week. Even still, it was a story of “haves” and “have nots” with an FCS game below a thousand fans, a FBS game with fewer than 6,000. And best of…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 10: Sub-500 see FCS Football Game
Week ten gave us a great slate of football games, so it’s no surprise that overall attendance was up to 23,995, a gain of 855 fans per game last week. Despite this, we had a new low for the season with only 468 in attendance as a Division III squad hosted an FCS team. Let’s…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 9: KU Wins But Nobody Saw It
Weeks seven and eight have passed, and it’s time for another attendance update. With cooler weather across the nation, plenty of fans were willing to go to football games, except at Miami of Ohio, who recorded the lowest attended FBS game of the year with merely 5,003 in attendance. For the rest of D1 Football,…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Weeks 7 & 8: The Lowest Attended FBS Game of the Year
Weeks seven and eight have passed, and it’s time for another attendance update. With cooler weather across the nation, plenty of fans were willing to go to football games, except at Miami of Ohio, who recorded the lowest attended FBS game of the year with merely 5,003 in attendance. For the rest of D1 Football,…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 6: Rose Bowl Half Empty or Half Full?
It was week six, and some programs fans have already had enough. Most surprisingly, UCLA only filled the Rose Bowl half full (or is it half empty?). Granted, it’s one of the bigger stadiums in college football, but sitting in the second largest city in America it has typically sat 60+% full. For the rest…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 5: Disappointing Homecoming in Lawrence
We’re into the swing of things here through week five, with plenty of good games on the slate. Even with that, average attendance was 26,365 for the week, a decrease of 1,828 over last week and the lowest attended week of the season thus far. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 10/1: Season Finale
The regular season has come to an end, and with it goes Below the Box Score. We’ll have a full season recap for you soon, but first, a look at the last week of the regular season (ignoring both Game 163s here, which will surely be sellouts, right?). With the AAA playoffs being the only…
Introducing the Live AMSTS NCAA Football Computer Rankings!
Can’t get enough AMSTS Computer Rankings? Want to see what the impact of your team going up 14-0 in the first quarter of a meaningless MAC game is? WELL BOY OH BOY DO WE HAVE THE ANSWER FOR YOU. Introducing the live AMSTS Computer Rankings! Updating every 15 minutes from Thursday to early Sunday…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 4: Duke Only Fills Cameron
Week four of the NCAA Football season finally felt like things were in full swing, as no games were cancelled due to hurricanes, and plenty of conference play started up. Average attendance was 28,193 for the week, a decrease of 1,374 over last week and the lowest attended week of the season thus far. Let’s…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/24: Season Draw Down
With only a handful of days remaining in the season, and the AL Playoff picture already set, interest continues to wane in the also-rans. Eight teams managed crowds below 20,000 last week, including the AL Central leading Indians. Four averaged below the mark, with the Orioles averaging below 10,000 on the full week. Only four…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/17: Playoffs in Sight
Editor note: Apologies about the delays and the short version of BtBS for this week. We’ll be back at full force next week With the ejection race seemingly settled, as well as a lot of playoff races, there weren’t much surprises this week in MLB. Unsurprisingly, the hapless Orioles had trouble drawing fans for…