Tag: attendance
Week 5 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Holy City Hoops Not-So-Classic, and SWACtion!
Thanksgiving week means a week full of bad ideas. Overeating, taking an accidental four-hour nap on the couch in front of your extended family, discussing politics at the Thanksgiving Day table. But all those ideas are better than one other idea that a lot of college basketball ADs have: Thanksgiving week neutral site tournaments for…
NCAA Championship Week Attendance: SWAC > Sun Belt!
Conference championship week is our penultimate look at college football attendance this season, and with the ticket prices being fairly low for many of the big conference games, it’s no surprise that the American conference championship was outdrawn by the FCS-level SWAC Championship. But what other surprises are in store? Let’s take a look. Worst…
Week 4 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Neutral Site Attendance Hell
Thanksgiving week means a week full of bad ideas. Overeating, taking an accidental four-hour nap on the couch in front of your extended family, discussing politics at the Thanksgiving Day table. But all those ideas are better than one other idea that a lot of college basketball ADs have: Thanksgiving week neutral site tournaments for…
Week 13 College Football Attendance – FCS Outdraws NM State
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,111 – New Mexico State vs Appalachian State on Saturday. Filling out a meager 3.4% of Aggie Memorial Stadium’s capacity, only a handful of people got to see Appalachian…
NCAA Basketball Weeks 1-3 Attendance In Review: Two Sub-100 Games Already!
The college basketball season has begun, and with it brings plenty of random tournaments nationwide. Some of these, like the Maui Invitational, bring the best teams together and have no problem selling out. Others, well… we’ll get to those. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 89 (Season total: 89) Here…
Week 12 NCAA Football Attendance – Howard, FAU, and Kansas Bring Up The Bottom
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,056 – Howard vs Delaware State on Saturday. Filling out just 15% of the 7,000 seat stadium’s capacity, the Bison of Howard put the final nail in Delaware State 0-11…
Week 11 NCAA Football Attendance
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,012 – Duquesne vs Sacred Heart on Saturday. This should be no surprise, as Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field only holds 2,200, the smallest stadium hosting a football game this week.…
Week 10 NCAA Football Attendance – A New Season Low!
We’re back again this week, and with it a shocking new season low for Division 1 attendance. In fact, the number is so low it would be in the bottom 1% of college BASKETBALL attendance last year. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 471 – Jacksonville vs Drake on Saturday. Can…
NCAA Football Week 9 Attendance In Review
With college football season in full swing, we here at AMSTS figured it was worth it to take a look at how attendance was working out around Division I. Of course, nobody cares that Ohio State filled the house with over 102,000, right? So let’s take a look at the other side: Worst overall…
Sixteen Ejections For Eleven Teams, Only 10k in Oakland – BtBS, Week of 9/26
If you like ump shows, you’re gonna love the way this week looked. Over the course of the week, a season record 11 teams had a player or manager get rung, totaling 16 ejections on the week. The total ejections for the week come in second to the week of the Rangers-Blue Jays brawl, but this…
NL Makes a Run For the Ejections Title, White Sox Can’t Draw 16k — BtBS, Week of 9/19
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For almost the entire season, the AL has had a lead over the NL in ejections. At times, the lead was a big one, as big as 12 in the past week. With only a handful of weeks left in the season, the NL seemingly decided that it was time to turn up the…
Nine Teams Draw Below 20,000, Nine Teams Draw Above 40,000, BtBS: Week of 9/12
It’s a story of the haves and have-nots. Overall, attendance continues to plummet, as NFL season starts and teams get mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Just this week, the Rays, (first place) Indians, Athletics, White Sox, Reds, Mariners, Marlins, (first place) Nationals, and Twins all had fewer than 20,000 come through the gates for one…