The Wave FO is doing a great job this year getting people out to games. It helps when you have such a good product on the field and such a fun gameday experience overall. I'm looking forward to next season when we get to replace some of the Nov/Dec home dates with more Feb/March.
Friday, February 23, 2018 Florida @ Harrisburg - 2,131 Milwaukee @ Baltimore - 3,242 Monterrey @ Cedar Rapids - no report Rio Grande Valley @ Turlock - 290 Ontario @ Tacoma - 3,085
Saturday, February 24, 2018 Florida @ Baltimore - 3,631 Syracuse @ Harrisburg - 2,500 Kansas City @ Sonora - 5,000 Rio Grande Valley @ San Diego - 3,227
Sunday, February 25, 2018 Milwaukee @ Syracuse - 2,583 Monterrey @ St. Louis - 3,244 Kansas City @ El Paso - 3,000
Baltimore @ Cedar Rapids - 1,826 (over 200 free AYSO Kids not counted for the pre-game clinic and halftime game. Good promotion to bring families.)
Sunday, March 4, 2018 Baltimore @ Syracuse - 3,007 Florida @ Kansas City - 4,018 Sonora @ Monterrey - 2,128 Onto the playoffs!
Thursday, March 8, 2018 Baltimore @ Syracuse - 1,653 Monterrey @ Sonora - 7,000 (hmmm...) San Diego @ Tacoma - 2,386
Sunday, March 11, 2018 Cedar Rapids @ Milwaukee - 4.891 Syracuse @ Baltimore - 3,611 Sonora @ Monterrey - 4,125
League average was off 10 percent this season, with 10 of the 14 holdover teams seeing drops in average announced attendance, some alarming. Here are this year's numbers, with teams ranked by percentage increase (or decrease) from last year's: Team............2018....2017....Diff. Milwaukee......4,101...3,794....+8.1% Syracuse.......2,398...2,300....+4.3% St. Louis......2,605...2,574....+1.2% Harrisburg.....1,459...1,449....+0.7% Kansas City....3,644...3,740....-2.6% El Paso........2,067...2,205....-6.2% Tacoma.........2,635...2,894....-8.9% San Diego......3,284...3,688...-11.0% Florida........2,433...2,778...-12.4% Ontario........2,378...3,024...-21.4% Sonora.........3,818...4,900...-22.1% Turlock..........428.....556...-23.1% Cedar Rapids...1,518...2,193...-30.8% Baltimore......3,491...6,300...-44.6% Monterrey......3,006....N/A.......N/A RG Valley......1,361....N/A.......N/A MASL TOTAL.....2,539...2,817....-9.9%
So is Baltimore's drop because they don't have MPS anymore? If so, how does Tommy Tanner explain Syracuse's increase without MPS?
For the most part Sonora and El Paso didn't report any numbers (besides 3,000 and 4,000) for 90% of their games. And there were some 2016/17 games that never got corrected.
This is true, too. Ain't my responsibility to track down the numbers, though. A league should do that.