Maybe that's why the traffic has gotten so damn out of control in the "middle of nowhere" Frisco the last couple of years.....
Sorry. Dealing with people on this site is so tedious. It is like dealing with menopausal women. Constant nagging about things not being done exactly how they want it done. It takes too much effort. I think I am done. No more of my lazy questions.
I hate this years attendance forum. Last year at least I could just read the statistics at the beginning of the week and ignore the rest. Now I have to sort through all this crap just to one or two posts on actual statistics. remind me again which website I can go to that tracks this without wasting my time here?
******** Dallas for their low attendence numbers. Playing in a stadium with a reduced capacity is no excuse. They should be averaging 20,000 anyway. They can stand on the roof.
So we need a sticky Attendance Summary and a fluid Attendance Discussion Thread. Unfortunately the horse has galloped through the bush before someone stitched a hole in the barn door in time.
I'm not sure what people expected to happen in this thread when it was decided to go to a single attendance thread vs. a weekly. Very few of the weekly attendance threads were limited solely to just the attendance numbers, particularly the ones at the start of the season when, historically, attendance is down. Just be glad we haven't hit the fish pun stage of the season yet.
Well, one of the unintended consequences of not having a fresh start every (couple of) week(s) is that the bickering has no real end, it bleeds through weeks. That all said, my understanding is that the only real reason we don't have weekly threads is that no one has stepped up to make them. Maybe one of the people who really dislike not having new weekly threads will now be motivated enough to start those up?
In the eternal argument of location vs. management, we have the case study of Chivas USA and the Gals, where we have controlled for one variable.
http://soccerstadiumdigest.com/2017-mls-attendance/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Major_League_Soccer_season
What teams could you use for the other control? Same ownership, worse (or better) location. The Rapids are one, KSE owned them for 4 seasons in downtown Denver before they moved out to Commerce City. LA (when did AEG buy them)? San Jose?
Considering the capacity of the stubhub.... There wouldn't even be enough parking spaces for that many people because of the location.
SSD doesn't always update on a weekly basis… Didn't know about the wikipedia site…thanks… The site I mostly use below… http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/usa-major-league-soccer-2017/1/
Good god, give them a minute... School, spring break, holidays coming up. Let's maybe give it a few games to see if there's an effect.
How many people are actually buying their tickets instead of Chicago giving them aaeay? How many prople are actually showing up? Thise are things that are more important factors with regards to whether Schweinsteiger was a successful signing or not..
I'm not sure what people were expecting from the Fire with the signing. For perspective - 17,034 is the highest per game average attendance they've ever had for a season (2008) in Bridgeview. That was with Blanco for a full season, McBride toward the end, and an above .500 team. Not to get back into the location vs. management discussion, but management wasn't really a known issue yet in 2008, entertainment factor, star power and winning were all accounted for, and the season average was just over 17k a game- location will always be an issue with them in Bridgeview. 16,434 is just fine- attendance will improve throughout the year and winning will help, but I'd be a little surprised if they ended up averaging more per game with Schweinsteiger than they did with Blanco. Again, not sure what the expectation was from others, but the attendance has never been great in the 'burbs (and was only slightly better in the city) and while it should improve this year, I don't they'll ever be a guaranteed to draw well where they're at, for myriad reasons.