Tag: empty stadiums
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/14/2017: First Sub-10k Game of the Year
It finally happened, over a month into the season, but we got our first sub-10,000 attended game of the year. And our second. And our third. THREE games this week were attended by four figure sums of fans as the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Kansas City Royals in a four game series. Luckily for…
Below the Box Score, Week of 5/7: The Laid Back National League
Not much interesting to note this week, though strangely the American League continues to walk away with the ejections lead. This week four AL players or managers were ejected to the NL’s zero. That’s the second time this year that the NL has gone a week without an ejection. Once again eight teams drew fewer…
Below the Box Score, Week of 4/30/17: Yankees-Red Sox Fastest Game of the Week?
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but a Red Sox-Yankees game was at the center of the time of game discussion this week. The only difference is that this time, the game went 2:21 instead of 4+ hours as usual. Rob Manfred may or may not have been seen laughing maniacally in his office…
Below the Box Score, Week of 4/16/17:
The highlights this week in the attendance front are that seven teams drew over 40,000 once this week, while seven have drawn fewer than 20,000 fans to an individual game (Pirates, Reds, Mariners, A’s, Indians, Marlins, Twins and Rockies). The Pirates, A’s and Reds all averaged fewer than 20,000 for the entire week, with the A’s only…
Below the Box Score: Welcome to 2017! Your Weekly Look at Attendance, Ejections, Weather & Gametime
It’s the first Below the Box Score of 2017, so welcome back to everyone as baseball season has finally begun. Please note some season-starting data headaches from our provider show a few teams as having not hosted as many games as they actually have. It should be fixed going forward but there are a few…
NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament Attendance: Fun Belt? MACtion? No Thanks
Conference tournament time! Full arenas? Not so much. Turns out, two conference tournament games couldn’t even get 1,000 folks to show up. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 2 (Season total: 675) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: 3. Lamar vs SE Louisiana – In the first round…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 18: No Love For Pac 12 Rivalries
The Patriot League isn’t known for its arenas full of crazy fans, and for good reason. Last week, four of the five lowest attended games in all of Division 1 took place on Patriot League courts. Things weren’t too rosy in major conferences either though, with the most surprising attendance figure coming out of the…
NCAA Basketball Week 16: Nobody in South Carolina Watches Basketball
South Carolina Upstate has the smallest arena in NCAA Division I men’s basketball with a capacity of 878. But this week’s bottom three attendance doesn’t involve the Spartans of USC-U, who drew 517 and 837 to their two games this week. With those totals, South Carolina Upstate outdrew two other South Carolina schools, whose game attendances would’ve…
NCAA Basketball Week 15: Only 200 Show Up For Game Shown on ESPN3
For the second straight week, the Purdue Boilermakers have sent home the highest number of disappointed fans. With last week’s win at Maryland and this week’s at Indiana, the Boilermakers have not been a welcome sight in the Big Ten. But on the bottom of the attendance, this week also had the first sub-300 attended game…
Week 14 NCAA College Basketball Attendance – First Week Over 5,000!
This was a week of the highest highs and lowest lows. For the first time this season, attendance averaged above 5,000. On the other end, one school in the bottom three offered a free snack if you came to their game… But it didn’t work so well. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 13: Highest Attendance of the Season!
We have reached peak basketball! Your average college basketball game is attracting more than 4,900 fans, and only 33 games this week had fewer than 1,000 fans in the door. In fact, it was the first week this season to not have any games with fewer than 400 spectators. Another good week for college basketball attendance!…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 12: Nobody Wants To See Central Arkansas
Attendance was way up last week, with the average inching towards nearly 5,000 fans a game. On the bottom end, there were no games with fewer than 300 fans, the first time that has happened all season. Even the number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans was down from a normal range of the…