Tag: analysis
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 11: Highs and Lows of the week!
The semester is now in full swing across the nation, giving tons of fans of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE] no excuses as to why they drew so poorly. Despite what fans of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE] think, I have nothing against the fine people of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE]. Anyway, let’s take a look at the…
Week 10 NCAA Basketball Attendance, the Highs and Lows
We’re back into the swing of things with most colleges having started their spring semester, which seems to have helped most teams out of the nadir of the year. This week saw marked improvement over last with quite a few games with fewer than 1,000 fans: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 39 The…
Which MLB Teams Will Fly the Most in 2016?
We’re a mere 42 days from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, so why not take a look ahead at the MLB season? The longest of the professional sporting seasons of the four major sports leagues of the US, the MLB schedule requires significant amounts of travel for every team. In fact, 28 of…
When every baseball team will run out of uniform numbers
Last week, the Red Sox announced that they would be retiring Wade Boggs’ number 26. This will be the 9th retired number in the Red Sox organization (10 if you include the league-wide retirement of Jackie Robinson’s #42), and the 5th retirement since 2000. With that, two questions are begged: 1) Are MLB teams retiring numbers…