Comparing attendance numbers
When you use the same laptop computer for nine years and refuse to trash any files related to your job, you often get a cluttered deskstop. When cleaning a few files off my messy deskstop recently, I clicked on an icon labled "FL attendance." It was a file containing the Frontier League's attendance through July 18, 2007. Naturally, I waited until Friday's games to post a comparison of the per-game attendance this year at each FL park and exactly one year earlier. Here goes:
Team.....................2008......2007........+/-
Southern Illinois..........4,245......5,257.......-1,012
Gateway..................3,997.......3,743.......+254
Traverse City.............3,876.......4,079......-203
Washington...............2,922.......3,180......-258
Evansville.................2,897.......3,472......-575
Rockford..................2,778.......2,545.......+233
Windy City................1,978.......1,770.......+208
River City.................1,941.......1,963....... -18
Kalamazoo................1,917.......1,374.......+543
Florence...................1,755.......1,970.......-215
Chillicothe................1,425........1,783.......-358
Four teams show an increase, led by Kalamazoo, where attendance was woeful last year. Rockford's numbers are on the plus side, in large part because of night in which a local television station bought all the available tickets to a RiverHawks game and gave them away.
Seven teams are on the down side with Southern Illinois having the largest decline. That, however, was expected. This is the Miners' second season.
posted by Chris Dugan at
1:29 PM
5 Comments:
Yawn
Adding up all the plus and minus, give a net of -1401 or an average of -127 per team.
This works out to an average drop of 4.5% from last year.
Washington's drop is 8.1% from last year or almost twice the league average. I wonder if Washington's drastic drop is the economy or is it getting old?
Please notice, I said nothing about the costs at CEF.
"I wonder if Washington's drastic drop is the economy or is it getting old?"
I think it's probably a combination of both but more the economy. I don't seem to see as many Ohio license plates as in previous seasons.
Ron Wilson
Illegitimati non carborundum!
I don't go any more because I, the same as many of the players, just don't like that arrogant showboat Jelks!
IMO it 2 thing that are taken fans away from CEP. The economy is one and I beleive the other is the players. It seem at times they go thru the motion. There knowlwdge of the game is down right degrading. Many times the pitcher fails to cover the bag or back up the catcher, the outfielders seem to hold the ball and have no clue where to throw it to, and the infielders at times seem to be out of postion.
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