Tag: attendance
Dodgers Draw 5000 More in Lowest Attended Game Than A’s Entire Series: Below the Box Score, Week of 6/6
The story this week is the Dodgers, who have drawn impressive numbers in a city known for it’s fan fickleness. In fact, as the headline mentions, the Dodgers drew a minimum of 46,366 this week. Meanwhile, up I-5, the Oakland A’s drew 41,361 fans… in three games. In fact, the Cardinals also outdrew the A’s…
Below the Box Score: The Ejections Keep on Coming!
The ejections continue at nearly an exponential pace with SEVENTEEN ejections this week, seven of which were the result of the now-famous Odor Punch™ & ensuing brawl that took place on Sunday. The American League continues to absolutely dominate the National League, with 29 ejections on the season to the Senior Circuit’s 18. In completely…
Below The Box Score: Twelve Ejections & Cleveland Sets Record Low Attendance – Week of 5/9
The interesting stat of the week? 12 ejections, ten of which were in the American League, giving the league a commanding lead in season ejections, 18-11. Secondarily, the story remains Cleveland’s terrible attendance. At this point, there have been three games this entire MLB season with fewer than 10,000 fans and all three took…
Below the Box Score: Fast Baseball – A new low! Week of 5/2
The story this week is FAST BASEBALL, with lots of new records being set this week in regards to pace of play. First off, the Dodgers and Padres played on Sunday and completed the entire ordeal in a mere 127 minutes, becoming the quickest game of the year so far. This was a 1-0…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Review of Attendance, Weather, Pace, and Ejections – Week of 4/18
April is a great time for baseball, if you like rain delays and wild temperature swings. This week’s low temperature demonstrates how volatile the springtime is. In Minnesota, Wednesday’s game was a comfortable 68 degrees for an 8 PM start. The very next day, at 1 PM, the temperatures had dropped down to a chilly…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Look at the Lesser Watched Statistics in Baseball
Editor note: Below the Box Score is a new weekly recurring segment that will discuss the lesser analyzed portions of the box score: namely attendance, time of game, weather, and ejections. We hope you enjoy. Opening Day is always an exciting one, with fans ready for Summer, but often times, the hype of Opening Day…
NCAA Conference Tournament Attendance: The embarrassing lows
It’s finally tournament time, but in the last week of the season we get to pile everyone on a bus, drive to the nearest major metropolitan area and watch the teams battle it out in their respective conference tournaments. Lots of fans were excited, but one pair of fans seemingly less so. Which brings us…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: The Highs and Lows
As we get closer to Conference and NCAA Tournament time, fan interest is starting to gain even more momentum. Attendance this week was up 4% with average attendance north of 5,000 for the first time this season. In addition, fewer games were played with fewer than 1,000 in attendance this week: Number of games drawing…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 16: The Winners and Losers
Attendance, for the most part, has steadied out through February, as school is in session, and weather has been fairly consistent, preventing low attendances across college basketball. This week, the numbers were up around 3% over last week, and the lowest attended game still had over 300 people, which should drop off as we get…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 15: The Highs and Lows
As we inch closer and closer to March, the haves and have-nots begin to separate, and we start to see attendance diverge. This week, as in last week, had quite a few games below 1,000 in attendance, but at the top, quite a few high attendance games have floated the average attendance up almost 6%…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 14: The Best and Worst of the Week
Numbers have somewhat bounced back this week after the winter storm that shook the east coast a couple of weeks ago, overall average attendance is slightly up this week. Where the attendance changes are mostly seen are on the bottom of the list, however, as fewer teams drew sub 1000 compared to last week (only 16 this week,…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 13, The Best and the Worst
Numbers have somewhat bounced back this week after the winter storm that shook the east coast a couple of weeks ago, overall average attendance is slightly up this week. Where the attendance changes are mostly seen are on the bottom of the list, however, as fewer teams drew sub 1000 compared to last week (only 16 this week,…