You're taking the medians of the averages. Not the medians of the games. The median attendance figure in MLS this season is 14,843 (Chivas at Houston, 4/13, the 19th value in the set of 37 figures when placed largest-to-smallest). The median is not the median of the averages of each individual team. THAT number would be 16,147. But that's not how we determine the league median.
Let's say for example Seattle has played 3 home games and Columbus has only played 2, then it's going to skew your median. Your method is not valid for looking at things in the context of the league, which is what Andy_B is looking at.
Then stop saying that the thing you are measuring is what "most people" are interested in. It isn't about there being a hive or some sort of super-secret set of rules. It's about not being a pompous, bull-headed douche. That's the test you are failing.
Now all you need to do is perform 2nd Order Ranking of the Ranking, e.g., Rank the AAQs which provides how well MLS has done over the years.
This is very nice. It distills things down into an easier-to-see set of numbers. What really jumps out to me is how bad 1999-2001 was. Of course, it's with an incomplete season. It will be interesting to see what the table looks like for a complete season. This data set gets any bigger, and you're going to have to request special formatting from BigSoccer.
That was do or die time for the league. The Florida teams were still around. The Crew were running out of a place to play. The investors had a big decision to make. Do we stay or do we go? Obviously they stayed. And the results have been amazing. Crew Stadium '02 World Cup Home Depot Center Pizza Hut Park Toyota Park Dick Sporting Goods Park BMO Field whatever the Union calls their place Red Bull Arena plus KC is being built And how most of the newbies since that time have come in: Toronto, Seattle, Philly. I gotta say, I like what the KC owners have done. Houston has done well with their play and good support. This also took a lot of faith and a lot of cash. I hear Anschutz even skipped an oil change or two.
Forgot Rio Tinto. Yeah, there are so damn many stadiums that have been built for MLS teams that we can forget one. And Houston's will break ground this fall. And San Jose's will break ground whenever the owner decides to.
Oh, I don't mind. I had to work a bit to figure out if there was one missing, and which one it was. ...and I'm still expecting someone to pop in here and inform us that we missed another
Clearly you are either misreading the numbers or are just an idiot. According to the geniuses from last week's thread, the league is about to implode and all our teams will disappear.
Its a pretty confusing few pages of thread to read now, which is a bummer because the new AAQ numbers are cool in that I was one of those people who were thinking that an AAQ of 4.74 meant that as of this week 2010 was just shy of being 4th best all time. I can only imagine the thread was trying to mirror last week's.
I believe in years past other posters have occasionally offered the AAQ by year. And I'm somewhat certain I've done the odder AAQ that I have mentioned a couple of times in this thread. If I find my power supply, I'll toss one together real quick.
Year AAQ BAQ 1996 1.50 1.00 1997 9.75 2.00 1998 7.25 2.25 1999 12.50 3.50 2000 12.75 3.75 2001 10.50 3.75 2002 4.75 2.50 2003 8.00 4.25 2004 7.25 4.25 2005 11.50 7.50 2006 3.75 3.00 2007 9.25 7.25 2008 5.50 5.00 2009 10.25 9.25 2010 4.75 4.75 Numbers could be off because I did this by hand. Additionally, BAQ = AAQ of given year with the understanding that it does not account for any years past given year.
If you think MLS teams draw poorly with weekday games, you should check out the two Mexican teams at home in the Copa Libertadores tonight. San Luis looked like they had maybe 3000 spectators. Chivas might have a few more but they're lying if they say it's more than 5,000. I guess the US isn't the only place where soccer only draws on the weekend.
3,015 in New York for the Open Cup. Kind of a small number, even if nobody cares about this competition... Oh well.