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St. Louis is the only MSA outside the top 15 that consistently ranks in the top 5 for attendance. I don't like the Cardinals, but it's one of the few places left in America where baseball crowds out the NFL.
Well, considering their NFL team is no longer there and the team sucked when they were there.
I see little if any mention of Denver as the Rockies despite not really contenders of late rank 11th for attendance this year, with an average home game of 32K attending. This in a city and metro area ranked 19th overall in population.
No, Denver is a Bronco town and that's it. No other sports matter. People go to Rockies because it's cheap and slightly entertaining. They couldn't care less about the team. And they all hate the owners (Monforts)
I would like for you to explain how the Red Sox Could possibly have 5,700,000 fans/season in an 81 home dates and a capacity of 37,000?
Or how the Yankees could have 24,800,000 fans/year, at stunning 306,000/game, which may break the fire code about 6x over.
Fans/capita is skewed towards small markets.
Still very flawed metric. The only valuable number is % of seats filled, not how many people per capita went to the games. If a 30,000 seat stadium in a city of 5 million is sold out they just can't fit any more people into the seats. Versus a 30,000 seat stadium in a city of 2 million. The city of 2 million will win all the time using the articles metric their ratio will always be higher
Still very flawed metric. The only valuable number is % of seats filled, not how many people per capita went to the games. If a 30,000 seat stadium in a city of 5 million is sold out they just can't fit any more people into the seats. Versus a 30,000 seat stadium in a city of 2 million. The city of 2 million will win all the time using the articles metric their ratio will always be higher
Regardless, when it comes to per capita attendance:
Milwaukee, WI is #1 in pro baseball
Green Bay, WI is #1 in pro football
When it comes to % of seats filled:
San Francisco, CA is #1 in pro baseball
Green Bay, WI is #1 in pro football
scott53051, don't bother with IShootNikon and btownbias, I mean btownboss4. They have agendas.
I agree STL is best baseball town, that is my agenda
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