attendance

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:08 pm

7E7C666076130 wrote: I ask because it doesn't look from TV that there were that many people in the stands. Empty seats everywhere. But my view is only limited and I'm no judge of crowds anyway.

It is definitely not turnstile count. A number of years ago the NL did turn stile and AL did paid attendance. Now both use tickets sold. So unless there are a lot of free tickets given for a particular game the announced attendance is almost always larger than the number of people in the park (because no shows get counted)

Roberto218 · Post by **Roberto218** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:45 pm

The team is playing well now. Many hearts were broken when Cutch was traded. It might take years to recover even if Cutch is on the decline. How many million Cutch shirts were sold? Worse attendance since 1996, and this team is better than all except 2013, 2014 and 2015. I call it the loss of innocence and the horrible realization that baseball is a business and not a game.

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:48 pm

576A676077716A37343D050 wrote: The team is playing well now. Many hearts were broken when Cutch was traded. It might take years to recover even if Cutch is on the decline. How many million Cutch shirts were sold? Worse attendance since 1996, and this team is better than all except 2013, 2014 and 2015. I call it the loss of innocence and the horrible realization that baseball is a business and not a game.

I agree with loss of innocence. I think a lot was self inflected by management too. NH coming out and saying they want to put together a team that projects to win 78-82 was awful although I think a lot of fans had already figured out the team was not really trying to win.

BenM · Post by **BenM** » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:53 am

I wonder if the fact that Archer is generally seen as a good guy who is active in the community played a role in the team targeting him. Not only get a new pitcher, but possibly a new face of the team.

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:33 am

41666D4E030 wrote: I wonder if the fact that Archer is generally seen as a good guy who is active in the community played a role in the team targeting him. Not only get a new pitcher, but possibly a new face of the team.

That couldn't hurt. He definitely seems like a good guy and is easy to root for.

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Sat Sep 22, 2018 11:29 pm

5B7D7C6B7D6D1E0 wrote: On 9/17 10,316 watched the Pirates beat the Royals.

Attendance for year is now

1,377,741 with the average at 18,873

The A's have passed the Bucs.

But the A's cheated! They had 65,000 in attendance when they had free seats for the anniversary.

nope, attendance totals are for tickets sold only. The tickets the Bucs are giving to teachers won't count either.

Wednesday night attendance 13,073

drops average to 18,698 and total goes to 1,402,380

Friday night in the rain attendance was better than average 19,243

On season the average is now 18,705 season total of 1,421,623

Reaching 1.5 million won't happen this season.

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:36 pm

Saturday September 22 attendance 23,070

raises season average to 18,762 and season total to

1,444,693

Bucs will only have 78 home dates because of double headers and rain out (unless October 1 game is held)

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:59 pm

final home game attendance was 20,623 raising season average to

18,786 and total attendance to:

1,465,316 in 78 dates.

2017 - 1,919,447 23,697

2016 - 2,249,201. 27,768

2015 - 2,498,596. 30,847.

2014 - 2,442,564. 30,155.

2013 - 2,256,862. 27,862.

2012 - 2,091,918. 25,862.

2011 - 1,940,429. 23,956.

2010 - 1,613,399. 19,919.

2009 - 1,577,853. 19,480.

BenM · Post by **BenM** » Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:52 pm

It could be a lot worse. The Marlins averaged about ten thousand fans per game. Our triple AAA team in Indy average almost nine thousand.

Ecbucs · Post by **Ecbucs** » Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:10 pm

47606B48050 wrote: It could be a lot worse. The Marlins averaged about ten thousand fans per game. Our triple AAA team in Indy average almost nine thousand.

yeah, trading Nutting for Loria would not help the Bucs.