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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…
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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…
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/10: NL Ejection Title Imminent?
After last week, the American League had narrowed the ejection gap between the two leagues down to one ejection. Upon hearing this news from their diligent reading of AMSTS, the National League decided that this was the week to start putting an effort in. THIRTEEN ejections by the NL alone, compared to the AL’s one. …
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 9/3: Ejection Comeback!
The American League took their time, waiting in the water all season, letting the National League think they’d win their first ejections title since AMSTS has been tracking the thing. That is, until September rolled around. The Junior Circuit finally got serious about winning the ejections race and pulled to within one ejection of the…
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/27: Attendance Plummets!
Teams really outdid themselves last week trying to attract fewer fans than normal. The Marlins continued to dominate the game, however, with only 6,587 showing up to see the Braves on Thursday. However, the A’s, Rays, Pirates, and White Sox also joined the Marlins in being outdrawn by AAA teams on the week. The twist? …
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/20: The NL Strikes Back!
The National League strikes back this week with seven ejections to the AL’s one, meaning we once again have separation in the season ejection rate. Attendance continued to be high, reaching the highest level of the season, with no games under 10,000 in attendance all week! Only six teams managed below 20,000, while seven managed…
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/13: Tempers Flair
It was the highest ejection week in the last three months last week, with eight ejections across the bigs last week. The American League continues its gradual cut into the NL lead, reducing the margin to NL 60, AL 58 after this week. The NL looking to win the ejections race for the first time…
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/5: Dog Days
The dog days of summer are here again, and with it we have games in brutal heat and everyone too hot to argue balls and strikes. The lowest ejection week of the season, with only three getting sent to the showers early. Only three teams averaged below 70 degrees on the week, with half the…
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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/30: Full Stadium Mania
Attendance was great last week, with a third of the league reporting a game with greater than 40,000 in attendance. Given that the American League playoffs seem to already be set at the end of July, this is particularly impressive. As for the bad…. another Marlins home stand. And with that, the Marlins once again…
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2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 5/6/18: John Gibbons Ejection Mania! | Below the Box Score
John Gibbons has had enough of the National League leading the ejections race, and he’s doing something about it. Gibbons accounted for 60% of this week’s ejections, getting rung in three separate games of the eight played by the Blue Jays on the week. John may not be the hero the AL needs right now,…
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Rangers Claim Top Organization, Yankees Take Top Farm System: Baseball Organizational Computer Rankings, Week of 6/17
Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major…
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Cubs Hold Top Spot, Royals Take a Dive: Baseball Organizational Rankings, Week of 6/10
Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major…