SouthSidePride05 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) I noticed before yesterday, we were averaging 28,000 fans. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance That's actually way up from last year at this time. Then we had a double header yesterday, and apparently MLB did not calculate the attendance for the 1st game. The 1st game yesterday did not have an attendance figure and therefore was counted as 0 (2nd game had 25,000). Since the first game had an attendance of 0, our average attendance took a major dip, and it's now at 25,206 (today's game won't be added til tomorrow), and dropped from #16 to #18. I think this is a mistake by MLB, and they should have counted the paid attendance for the 1st game. Did anyone else notice this? Is there a way we can contact MLB and notify them of this? Edited April 29, 2009 by SouthSidePride05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) I noticed before yesterday, we were averaging 28,000 fans. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance That's actually way up from last year at this time. Then we had a double header yesterday, and apparently MLB did not calculate the attendance for the 1st game. The 1st game yesterday did not have an attendance figure and therefore was counted as 0 (2nd game had 25,000). Since the first game had an attendance of 0, our average attendance took a major dip, and it's now at 25,206 (today's game won't be added til tomorrow), and dropped from #16 to #18. I think this is a mistake by MLB, and they should have counted the paid attendance for the 1st game. Did anyone else notice this? Is there a way we can contact MLB and notify them of this? That is how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goober Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Also from the same area of the site, U.S. Cellular Field is now the 5th best pitcher's park in Major League Baseball. Although that could be because two of the top five games pitched in the AL were there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 QUOTE (Tmar @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 02:06 PM) Also from the same area of the site, U.S. Cellular Field is now the 5th best pitcher's park in Major League Baseball. Although that could be because two of the top five games pitched in the AL were there. I think the White Sox starting pitchers splits have been better at home than on the road the past couple of years. I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthSidePride05 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) Is there any other site that shows current attendance figures? I'm pretty sure MLB and every other site gets their information from that ESPN site. That's pretty pathetic because it's just plain inaccurate. I just did some research, and I added all the attendance #s for all 12 games. Again, this site indicates the average attendance for the White Sox after 12 games: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance I came up with 295,295 excluding the first game of the double header. That means they counted the first game as an attendance of 1. I then added all of the Red Sox attendance figures for their 12 games. They also had a double header. They counted both games of the double header on 4/22. If you're unaware how to get attendance #s, you just go to the team's official site, click on schedule, and then click on the score of each home game. When you click on the score of game 1 of our double header, no attendance number.. when you click on both game 1 and game 2 of Boston's double header, both show attendance figures. I tried emailing ESPN, but it just fell on deaf ears. Who should we contact about this? Edited May 2, 2009 by SouthSidePride05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ May 1, 2009 -> 09:59 PM) Is there any other site that shows current attendance figures? I'm pretty sure MLB and every other site gets their information from that ESPN site. That's pretty pathetic because it's just plain inaccurate. I just did some research, and I added all the attendance #s for all 12 games. Again, this site indicates the average attendance for the White Sox after 12 games: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance I came up with 295,295 excluding the first game of the double header. That means they counted the first game as an attendance of 1. I then added all of the Red Sox attendance figures for their 12 games. They also had a double header. They counted both games of the double header on 4/22. I'm not sure there wasn't just 1 person at that first game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ May 1, 2009 -> 09:59 PM) Is there any other site that shows current attendance figures? I'm pretty sure MLB and every other site gets their information from that ESPN site. That's pretty pathetic because it's just plain inaccurate. I just did some research, and I added all the attendance #s for all 12 games. Again, this site indicates the average attendance for the White Sox after 12 games: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance I came up with 295,295 excluding the first game of the double header. That means they counted the first game as an attendance of 1. I then added all of the Red Sox attendance figures for their 12 games. They also had a double header. They counted both games of the double header on 4/22. Their's was probably a day/night DH with 2 gates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthSidePride05 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 1, 2009 -> 09:08 PM) Their's was probably a day/night DH with 2 gates. It shouldn't matter since we had a paid attendance # for both the game that was postponed and the 2nd game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ May 1, 2009 -> 10:10 PM) It shouldn't matter since we had a paid attendance # for both the game that was postponed and the 2nd game. The cancelled game's attendance will be dispursed into several games as people will use their tickets for other games. The total number will not be lost, but instead of 81 gates they will only have 80 and since they have had 12 home games but only 11 attendance figures, one will be 0. It hurts the average this early in the season. If they played a day/night DH, they would have 12 attendance figures. Obviously, the people with unused tickets will be counted eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthSidePride05 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 Oh ok, I didn't know that. For that cancelled game, will ticketholders be able to use those tickets for any home game, or just May games? I think a lot of those tickets will go unused, which will hurt our average. I thought attendance was based on paid; a lot of games I've been to have had 1/4 empty seats but the attendance was 37K and I always assumed it was paid attendance and not 'gate' attendance. Do you have a link where it shows the rules for calculating attendance? I'm curious to read what it says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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