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  • Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

    Interesting numbers to compare.

    College Hockey attendance here:
    http://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/attendance.php

    College Baseball attendance here:
    http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/n...attendance.pdf

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    Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

    BU clearly draws more for hockey than they do for baseball and football combined... Impressive!
    Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010
    The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.

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    • #3
      Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

      Originally posted by Puck Swami View Post
      Interesting numbers to compare.

      College Hockey attendance here:
      http://www.collegehockeynews.com/almanac/attendance.php

      College Baseball attendance here:
      http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/n...attendance.pdf
      Interesting. Hockey edges slightly higher, but with far fewer home games (16-20 games compared to southern baseball schools getting 25-30+).

      Interesting outliers, too - Wisconsin had the Camp Randall outdoor game, while Minnesota and Louisiana Tech had their 'preview' game at Target Field.

      32 baseball games with more than 10k in attendance. Of those, 1 was the Target Field game. Only 4 of those were games other than @LSU - and one of them was an LSU road trip (LSU @ Ole Miss).

      Would be interesting to see a capacity analysis...
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        Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

        Score one for the good guys!

        Also:

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        • #5
          Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

          Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View Post
          BU clearly draws more for hockey than they do for baseball and football combined... Impressive!
          Well BU had as many home games make the list of the ~800 highest attended baseball games this year as BC did

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          • #6
            Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

            OK - good point, Sean!

            Here are home numbers for baseball (09):

            http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats...attendance.pdf

            Not a huge difference.

            The WCHA is very similar to SEC baseball.

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            • #7
              Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

              Originally posted by blockski View Post
              Interesting. Hockey edges slightly higher, but with far fewer home games (16-20 games compared to southern baseball schools getting 25-30+).

              Interesting outliers, too - Wisconsin had the Camp Randall outdoor game, while Minnesota and Louisiana Tech had their 'preview' game at Target Field.

              32 baseball games with more than 10k in attendance. Of those, 1 was the Target Field game. Only 4 of those were games other than @LSU - and one of them was an LSU road trip (LSU @ Ole Miss).

              Would be interesting to see a capacity analysis...
              Course, last year the Nebraska-Creighton game at Rosenblatt in May that usually draws 15000+ got rained out.

              This year both teams really, really suck, but I think it still got 10,000.

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              • #8
                Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                Originally posted by Puck Swami View Post
                OK - good point, Sean!

                Here are home numbers for baseball (09):

                http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats...attendance.pdf

                Not a huge difference.

                The WCHA is very similar to SEC baseball.
                somwhow, I get the feeling it costs a lot more to buy a regular season ticket to see a Minnesota hockey game, than to see a LSU baseball game.
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                • #9
                  Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                  Originally posted by Happy View Post
                  somwhow, I get the feeling it costs a lot more to buy a regular season ticket to see a Minnesota hockey game, than to see a LSU baseball game.
                  $5 for kids, and $10 or $15 per game for LSU... Of course, they also had 37 home games compared to 19 Gopher hockey home games.
                  Last edited by moose97; 05-26-2010, 08:40 AM.
                  Current NCAA D-I rinks I've been to:

                  AHA:
                  B1G: UMich, MSU, UMinn, Notre Dame, OSU, UWisc
                  CCHA: BSU, BG, FSU, LSSU, MSU, MTU, NMU
                  ECAC:
                  HEA: UMass
                  NCHC: Miami, UMD, UND, SCSU, WMU
                  Independant: ASU


                  Inactive: UAH, ASU, BSU, UMD, UND, NMU, Notre Dame

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                  • #10
                    Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                    40 of the 58 D1 hockey teams averaged 2,000+ fans per game. Only 29 of the 301 D1 baseball teams averaged 2,000+. 12 hockey teams averaged 5,000+, while only 6 baseball teams did.
                    Places I've seen a college hockey game: Agganis Arena, Alfond Arena, Bright Center, Consol Energy Center, Conte Forum, DCU Center, Fenway Park, Gutterson Fieldhouse, Houston Field House, Lawler Arena, Madison Square Garden, Matthews Arena, Mullins Center, Schneider Arena, Scottrade Center, Sears Centre, Tampa Bay Times Forum, TD Bank Sports Center, TD Garden, Tsongas Center, Tully Forum, Verizon Center, Verizon Wireless Arena, Walter Brown Arena, Wells Fargo Center, Whittemore Center

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                    • #11
                      Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                      Nice to see we still do better than a couple NHL teams.
                      http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance

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                      • #12
                        Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                        I am guessing that the RIT games at the BCA do not count on this.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                          I'd be curious if hockey outdraws lacrosse and women's basketball as well...
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                          • #14
                            Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                            Originally posted by quiddlet View Post
                            I'd be curious if hockey outdraws lacrosse and women's basketball as well...
                            It does outdraw lax: http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=15477

                            The very top compares favorably to women's bball, but women's bball runs away with it after that: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weekly...BBattend1.html (Note: For some reason, half the w. bball page is white. Just keep scrolling. You'll get to numbers eventually.)
                            Places I've seen a college hockey game: Agganis Arena, Alfond Arena, Bright Center, Consol Energy Center, Conte Forum, DCU Center, Fenway Park, Gutterson Fieldhouse, Houston Field House, Lawler Arena, Madison Square Garden, Matthews Arena, Mullins Center, Schneider Arena, Scottrade Center, Sears Centre, Tampa Bay Times Forum, TD Bank Sports Center, TD Garden, Tsongas Center, Tully Forum, Verizon Center, Verizon Wireless Arena, Walter Brown Arena, Wells Fargo Center, Whittemore Center

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                            • #15
                              Re: Comparing NCAA Hockey with NCAA Baseball Attendance

                              Originally posted by Federal League View Post
                              The very top compares favorably to women's bball, but women's bball runs away with it after that: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weekly...BBattend1.html (Note: For some reason, half the w. bball page is white. Just keep scrolling. You'll get to numbers eventually.)
                              Well, if you follow this logic:
                              Originally posted by Federal League View Post
                              40 of the 58 D1 hockey teams averaged 2,000+ fans per game. Only 29 of the 301 D1 baseball teams averaged 2,000+. 12 hockey teams averaged 5,000+, while only 6 baseball teams did.
                              Then only 66 of the 338 are over 2,000 per game. Even if you extend to those over 1,000, the fugure increases to 132 of the 338. So:

                              69% of Hockey teams are over 2,000 per game (86% over 1,000 - 21% over 5,000)
                              10% of Baseball teams are over 2,000 (don't have all listed over 1,000 - 2% are over 5,000)
                              20% of Women's Basketball are over 2,000 (39% over 1,000 - 4% over 2,000)
                              17% of lax are over 2,000 (don't have all listed over 1,000 - 5% over 5,000)

                              Seems to me Hockey wins big on all accounts...
                              Current NCAA D-I rinks I've been to:

                              AHA:
                              B1G: UMich, MSU, UMinn, Notre Dame, OSU, UWisc
                              CCHA: BSU, BG, FSU, LSSU, MSU, MTU, NMU
                              ECAC:
                              HEA: UMass
                              NCHC: Miami, UMD, UND, SCSU, WMU
                              Independant: ASU


                              Inactive: UAH, ASU, BSU, UMD, UND, NMU, Notre Dame

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