Sorry about that. I've corrected my statement. Also, this attendance listing comes directly from the MASL website ( http://pointstreaksites.com/view/masl/records-8 ). I did not create it.
That's a pretty good recovery to take over from the impact of the Impact I just hope the owners will stick it out. The ShoWare Arena is a real building with real costs, not some indoor place with some aluminum bleachers. A change in venue or 3500 a game may well be needed.
Lowest announced attendance of the year last night as Saltillo announced 70. That's right, seventy. That's fewer people than are in attendance for my coed rec C league games on Wednesday nights.
St. Louis finishes at 6,111 (up 8% from last year, despite losing MPS). Missouri finishes at 4,488 (up 7% from last year, despite losing MPS). Baltimore finishes at 6,202 (up 1% from last year, despite keeping MPS).
They only actually provided an announced attendance for two games. The rest are scorekeeper fabrications. But most of the Saltillo and Brownsville games I've seen online look like there are about 70 people there.
Not really. He will simply point out Milawaukee attadance nose dived (regardless of if it actually did or has anything to do with MPS) and how Harrisburg's attendance went up and they we're able to move into a new arena (also regardless of if the move happened before MPS was announced for H'burg or if it had anything at all to do with it). Sadly, and as predicted, MPS/SPS have nothing to do with attedance figures in the least, but you have a group of guys on both sides of the fence trying to claim it does. It's like one side is arguing the legitimacy of Santa Clause while the others laugh at them, call them crazy and than put on their "Easter Bunny is real" shirts... indoor soccer in a nutshell.
The scoring system is not an attendance driver. That has been - and remains - my only point. Play by whatever rules you want. But everybody should play by the same rules, and nobody needs ex-players with no analytic background whatsoever justifying their personal preferences with voodoo economics.
No number in from Rochester yet. Would be shocked if they didn't announce, to paraphrase a joke about Milton Berle, "just enough to win," and pip Baltimore for the attendance lead. Might be why it's taking a while to get the number, don't know.
No number in from Rochester yet. Would be shocked if they didn't announce, to paraphrase a joke about Milton Berle, "just enough to win," and pip Baltimore for the attendance lead. Might be why it's taking a while to get the number, don't know.
10,215 according to the game recap on their website. That'll do the trick. They did a 'military appreciation day' promotion (free ticket w/military ID), so who knows how many of those were given away.
I saw that and thought "Damn, he's really anxious for that number!" It blipped on me momentarily too when I tried to enter this post.
Was at the game today. (A friend had a freebie, and apparently could have named how many tickets she needed.) That's some impressive fudging by the Lancers - I'd have said 8500 would've been the announced number. Bonkers game, though.
It was easily the highest attendance of the season regardless what was announced for a number. Agreed on the game, thoroughly enjoyed it right up to the end. If only the whole season had been played like that ...
Attendance surprise of the season: the Harrisburg Heat (29,890) outdrew the Milwaukee Wave (29,618) at least per the PountStreak site.
All in all Harrisburg has to be elated with the attendance. The team sucked and they had a good year at the gate (at least announced).
The top 4 teams in attendance were former MISL Teams. Those numbers alone boosted the MASL average from last year.
The latter part of your comment is not true. If you take the six MISL teams out, the average still rose from 1,349 to 1,525.
The Equine Arena at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg has 1,660 fixed seats. The Large Arena (where they played this year) has 7,318 fixed seats.
The Equine Arena in Harrisburg has a capacity of around 2500. One of the games I made it to had a crowd of around 1800 and they still had lots of seating available. This is not counting the seats that was on the floor where people hoped to get hit by soccer balls.