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If those Salt Lake articles are true that they've got some real hard proposals for sites on the board then maybe that takes some of the sting out of the "I thought you needed a SSS to have an expansion team" criticism when RSL was first announced.
It's Checketts. He get's things done. He doesn't wait and wonder why? He just does. God bless him. If only we can take him, Mr. Wilt and yes Mr. Chivas himself to do the selling for each team and you know what? Our league would have it made.
Polling Utahn's Feelings on MLS - KSL News Who just polls "roughly three hundred people" and then decides its newsworthy?
Most of the polls for the presidential race were only a few hundred people, maybe a thousand tops. You don't need a ton of people to get accurate results.
Are you kidding? That's the new team in Salt City Lake. Come on, get with the times. Next you're going to tell me you haven't heard of CD USA Chivas.
I am just 'aghast' Can you imagine cities competing to find land for a soccer stadium? I am exceedlingly jealous of ReAl.
Correct, scaryice. Assuming they conducted a random sample, the poll's margin of error would be about 6%.
Is that for real? Do you really call someone from Utah a "Utahn"? Or is it more a local thing and I'm just missing something?
Not to get political, but most of the late pre-election (not exit) polls I heard had Bush winning about 51-49 or so, which was pretty close to the actual result. 300 is a good number, especially for a state the size of Utah.
Well, that is what we had here in Chicagoland--About 5 different cities submitted serious proposals to land the Fire. Too bad Chicago wasn't one of them...
According to this article, 13% of those polled said they would "definitely" or "probably" attend an RSL game next year. RSL has two metro areas to draw from. From the 2000 census: Salt Lake-Ogden: 1,333,914 Provo-Orem: 368,536 Total: 1,702,450 If everyone in that 13% group attends one game, 221,318 people will attend RSL games next year. Divided over 16 home games, that comes to 13,832 people per game. Looks like they'll fit right in. (Feel free to correct any of my figures if they are incorrect.)
Actually, the sample size needed to get a particular margin of error is independent of the population size. Randomly sample 300 Utahns or 300 Californians and you get a 6% margin of error in either case.
As I remember, Chicago was actually one of the final 5. They offered an excellent location but not much addt'l financial incentive like BV.
Yeah, but you're more likely to get more accurate answers from the Utahns...less use of mind altering substances in that population than in La-La Land and San Fran...
If your sample group is representative of the larger group you don't need several thousand people for it to be a valid pool. It's all about representing the demographic make up of the group you want information from.
I read the article. And I must say that it doesn't give me too much hope that the Real Salt Lake has any chance to succeed according to the polls. Maybe it will help a pocket of the community, but c'mon to build a 20k seat stadium when only 50-60% probably wont attend a match is really asking to lose your investment