Heads22 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Attendance is 10,000 higher on average. The bump coming up from last year was the Cubs series. We already had that and we are at roughly 1.1 million this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Cool graph! Thanks for doing that. It's good to see the attendence slowly rising as the weather is now better and the other sports are mostly in the middle of the offseason or getting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan1 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Wow. Thats amazing. The low-2006 average is higher than the high-2005 average! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted June 14, 2006 Author Share Posted June 14, 2006 I started this project in 2005 to see how the attendance had progressed over the season. Now I plan on keeping up with it this year as well. Those 40000+ games in October helped last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangar18 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 04:27 PM) I started this project in 2005 to see how the attendance had progressed over the season. Now I plan on keeping up with it this year as well. Those 40000+ games in October helped last year. Interesting. Its been a long long long time since I saw anything remotely about Attendance. Heres another interesting fact (Note that this WASNT played up in the media either) Last Wednesday, the SOX went over 1,000,000 people in Attendance (oops, A word) the fastest in Club History. Tells you 1. Just how far this team has come, 2. Sox Fans were always an untapped market and under-marketed before Congratulations White Sox Edited June 14, 2006 by Hangar18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan101 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) Great graph Heads, nice job. The other interesting fact is our exact per game average right now is at 34,615 (which is going to go up obviously). Now keeping in mind that we don't jam more than 39,300 (and a couple dozen in change) into the stadium for any RS games now, our attendance to capacity ratio is damn good. Using 39,300 as the capacity number for mathematics sake, the stadium is on average filled at 88.1 percent to capacity per game. That number is mind boggling as an average for us, I thought I'd never see the day (and that number should be over 90 percent by the end of the year). Edited June 14, 2006 by whitesoxfan101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted June 14, 2006 Author Share Posted June 14, 2006 Our attendance should go over 35,000 and stay there as long as we don't dip in attendance like we did late last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RibbieRubarb Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) Interesting. Its been a long long long time since I saw anything remotely about Attendance. Heres another interesting fact (Note that this WASNT played up in the media either) Last Wednesday, the SOX went over 1,000,000 people in Attendance (oops, A word) the fastest in Club History. Tells you 1. Just how far this team has come, 2. Sox Fans were always an untapped market and under-marketed before Congratulations White Sox Um...It was metioned in the White Sox notebook in last wednesday's Sun-times The crowd of 37,612 pushed the White Sox's attendance to the 1 million mark through 30 home dates. That's the quickest the White Sox have reached 1 million in franchise history As my dad would say: If it had teeth it would have bit ya! But I guess that happens when you just count the articles and you don't read them. Edited June 14, 2006 by RibbieRubarb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsox08 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 definitely an attendance record this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(wsox08 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 02:52 AM) definitely an attendance record this year. It won't even be close. The Sox are pretty much impossible to pass the 1991 mark of over 2.9 million people in this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 07:06 AM) It won't even be close. The Sox are pretty much impossible to pass the 1991 mark of over 2.9 million people in this season. Assured, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn12 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Not sure HOW you mistype 'impossible' for 'assured' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthSidePride05 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 A lot of games in the last month that were filled to capacity had an announced paid attendance of 37,000. Apparently they don't count the comp tix, even though they were in attendance. So the current avg attendance of 34,615 looks that much more impressive! I may be wrong, we'll never know, but I think if there were no obstructive poles in the UD, many more games would be sold out. I wish they had never built those poles in the UD. I've been checking ticketmaster and noticed at row 12, anywhere in the UD, it says "Seats may be obstructed/limited view". Is this correct? Are the poles really at row 12.. I thought they were much higher. In any case, this definitely prevents a lot of sellouts. For the next homestand, only 3 are guaranteed to sell out. The Wed, Fri, and Sunday games have stalled in sales because only available tix are "obstructed". Ticketmaster should remove that line! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeynach Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 04:27 PM) I started this project in 2005 to see how the attendance had progressed over the season. Now I plan on keeping up with it this year as well. Those 40000+ games in October helped last year. Oh my god an attendance thread...If this was WSI there would have to be an FBI style blanket thrown over this topic and suspensions would be handed down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 07:35 AM) Assured, too. Is it mathmatically possible? With the lower capacity, I don't think they will be able to sell enough tickets to push the average up high enough to get over the 2.9 million mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 09:53 AM) Is it mathmatically possible? With the lower capacity, I don't think they will be able to sell enough tickets to push the average up high enough to get over the 2.9 million mark. It is possible - slim, but possible. And I shouldn't say assured because I don't whole heartedly believe it. I said before 2.5 and I thought that was pushing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 09:53 AM) Is it mathmatically possible? With the lower capacity, I don't think they will be able to sell enough tickets to push the average up high enough to get over the 2.9 million mark. They'll have to average about 36,000 a game. If the current average is at 34,615 then they are damn close. They haven't even played the Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals or Astros yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) They'll have to average about 36,000 a game. If the current average is at 34,615 then they are damn close. They haven't even played the Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals or Astros yet... Which means they pretty much have to sell out every game the rest of the way to push the average up to over 36K. I know we still have some good teams coming in, but we still do have teams like KC to play as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthSidePride05 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 (edited) Even for the good teams coming in, like for the next homestand, 3 games have only sold about 33K so far, and might not sell out (Wed vs StL, Fri vs Hou, Sun vs Hou). The avg might get close to 36K at the end of the summer, and then we'll see it dip to 34-35K to end out the season, bringing in 2.8 million. Very impressive! Edited June 15, 2006 by SouthSidePride05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithFranklin Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Average now at 35,124. Need to average 37,911 to hit 3 million. Add in 7 sellouts (Today and 6 against Yankees and Red Sox). Then need to average 37,602 for 3 million 34,824 for 2.9 million Both doable. Through August Sox have 32 home games. 12 weekend (Non Red Sox or Yankees), 6 Red Sox or Yankees. September has 11 home games 6 of which our weekend games against Cleveland, Seattle and Detroit. If we are in a pennant race then those games will do very well. I think we will hit 3 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maki Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 QUOTE(KeithFranklin @ Jun 25, 2006 -> 11:57 AM) I think we will hit 3 million. wager? no way in hell we hit 3 million this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zygoat Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 good the more people the higher the payroll, maybe soon we will be near or at the top great graph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 Will update after tonite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitetrain8601 Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I don't think we'll hit 3 million either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan101 Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Actually, to be accurate, you need to average 37,038 per game for a season to nose ahead of the 3 million mark for an 81 game home schedule, not 37,911. Going into tonight, we have an average of 35,125 through 39 games, so we need to get the average up 1913 more per game in the last 42 home games to get over 3 million. It's possible I think, but would be very hard to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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