Average attendance for each team so far this season:
Vancouver: 8269
Calgary: 8154
Everett: 6198
Spokane: 6186
Kelowna: 6115
Red Deer: 5883
Edmonton: 4982
Regina: 4975
Kamloops: 4535
Chilliwack: 4465
Saskatoon: 4142
Tri-City: 4101
Portland: 4061
Brandon: 4046
Medicine Hat: 4006
Lethbridge: 3885
Seattle: 3817
Kootenay: 2941
Prince George: 2799
Moose Jaw: 2348
Prince Albert: 2128
Swift Current: 2005
Now, I've taken the attendance for each individual game, and calculated the % higher or lower than the home team's average attendance - ie, is that game drawing more or less people than a 'typical' game. Then I took those numbers, plus the visiting team for each game, and calculated how much a team's attendance increases or decreases depending on who the visiting team is. Basically, which teams are the best visiting-team draws, league-wide?
This is how much a home team's attendance changes when the opponent is:
Seattle: +9.47%
Vancouver: +7.19%
Kootenay: +2.81%
Chilliwack: +2.78%
Tri-City: +2.71%
Medicine Hat: +2.19%
Kelowna: +1.57%
Edmonton: +0.64%
Calgary: -0.29%
Red Deer: -0.32%
Prince George: -0.74%
Moose Jaw: -0.75%
Portland: -1.03%
Spokane: -1.1%
Everett: -1.68%
Regina: -1.68%
Saskatoon: -1.85%
Kamloops: -2.08%
Swift Current: -2.94%
Prince Albert: -3.72%
Lethbridge: -4.2%
Brandon: -5.41%
Basically, fans make more of an effort to go to the rink when Seattle or Vancouver is in town, but they prefer to stay home and catch up on the TIVO'd lawn bowling when Lethbridge or Brandon visits.
3 comments:
Alan,
I've got Kootenay's average attendance at 3022.5 through 28 home dates.
Jeff
Hi Jeff - where do you get the numbers from? I am using the numbers off the WHL game sheets, which gives me these:
9/22/2007: 3103
9/29/2007: 3055
9/30/2007: 2708
10/3/2007: 2667
10/7/2007: 2760
10/20/2007: 3145
10/21/2007: 2777
10/24/2007: 2667
10/26/2007: 2822
11/2/2007: 2953
11/4/2007: 2748
11/9/2007: 3049
11/11/2007: 2932
11/20/2007: 2782
12/7/2007: 2838
12/8/2007: 3001
12/15/2007: 3021
12/28/2007: 3711
12/31/2007: 3232
1/5/2008: 2995
1/11/2008: 3029
1/12/2008: 2981
1/18/2008: 3008
1/22/2008: 2677
1/25/2008: 2795
1/26/2008: 3089
1/30/2008: 2956
2/1/2008: 2847
If you average those out, you get 2941.
If one or more of the WHL game sheets were wrong (big shock there!), then my numbers would be too.
I found the discrepancy.
In the building during two seperate ticket nights (unused) they announced attendance of 3819 - November 20 against Red Deer - and 3922 January 22 against Calgary. For both games the gamesheets say 2782 and 2677, respectively. That's why my numbers were out because I went with what was announced, the game sheets for the two games show otherwise. There's the difference.
Jeff
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