Mlb Attendance 2011
If MLS is set to pass the NHL in popularity how long ago did it pass the NBA?
Hi
I was just reading an article that was talking about MLS and the average attendance per game and how the number is set to pass the NHL’s if it has not already. I remember a year or two ago that the NHL was over the NBA (the actual only sports that have comparable sized arenas) when it came to attendance. So by the logic of the article I will site at the end, does this mean the NHL and NBA are about to be 5th and 6th behind Nascar and MLS since both will have a higher average attendance per event. Would percent of ticketed fans in building verse capacity be a better gauge since the NHL and NBA have roughly 20 thousand people allowable compared to 40-80 thousand the MLB and NFL both can claim and 300,000 that have been drawn to a single Nascar event?
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/03/24/major-league-soccer-poised-overtake-nhl-4th-popular-professional-sports-league/
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ps Casey that sums up my point. Attendance is nothing in the revenue world.
I think you have to also factor in SCHEDULE. I have no idea how many games MLS play but I cannot imagine that they have 41 home dates. Less than half that? Someone will fill in that blank.
When you look at it from that perspective………the NFL gets 70k at a game…….but there is no way they could do that if they played 30-40 games at home per year. They play 8 home dates so they can do it. Ditto Nascar, would they do that if they had that many races in the same locale?
Just looked it up……..34 regular season games so that is 17 home dates.
If NHL teams had 17 home games which were all scheduled on the week-ends then they could get 30-40k per game.
It’s all relative. Higher average attendance does not equal more popularity. Although, apparently NASCAR is hugely popular….but soccer is not up there.
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