Or not... Wrote:
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> Stupid Stats Wrote:
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> > That's only because they have so many boring ass
> games/year.
>
> So, the antidote for boring would be to do
> something six times a week instead of just once a
> week. I think there may be a hole in that logic.
>
>
> > Average attendance for NFL - 67,604
> > Average attendance for MLB - 30,514
> >
> > A major college football game turns out more
> > people in one day than some MLB teams do in
> > probably a month of home games.
>
> MLB teams play an average of 13.5 home games per
> month. If 30,514 fans attended each home game,
> that would be an average monthly home attendance
> of 411,939. Even if they played every single
> Saturday and never played concurrent with a NASCAR
> race. no major college football program would
> surpass that number.
Ummm... You realize that you just made my point by having to compare a MONTH of MLB home games (even using the average, not as I said for some teams) against attendance at ONE event.
The fact is, as I said, that the only reason that MLB's numbers are high in total as you cited is because of the much greater number of games played vs others used for comparison.
>
> Look, you may not like or understand baseball. We
> all realize that there are those frenetic types
> who require constant emotional jarring simply to
> feel like they are alive. Maybe you are just one
> of those. But the facts still say that baseball
> is not dying, but is rather broadly popular and
> becoming more and more popular every year.
I understand baseball perfectly well. I used to be a fan. I even worked with MLB on the major rewrite of their web site at one point. As difficult as it may be for you traditionalists to recognize it, the game is painfully slow and there are just too many of them. Even fans and players are bored with it at this point in the season. Attendance actually has declined since the peak in 2007. You can blame some counting-type factors for some of that but popularity really is not rising in any way. You also can see the decline in things like World Series viewership.
Regular season viewership bounces some year-to-year but the trend also is substantially down over the longer term. Some of that moved to other ways of viewing, which have greatly increased compared to what they were, but still don't make up for the overall decline.
People have an attention span of maybe about 15 minutes at most these days and desire immediate gratification. Like it or not, the game is not a good fit for any of that. It's too slow, games take too long, and there are too many of them.