12,185 at Colorado on a Wednesday. A respectable amount. I believe they had some sort of $10 a ticket discount thing going on. Sounded pretty much like a morgue though, except for a few lovely drums.
Well done.. I was about to get this thread moving myself.. Rest of the games on the docket for this week Saturday, October 4 DC United @ Columbus Colorado @ Kansas City Los Angeles @ Chicago (last game at Naperville) New England @ Dallas Sunday, October 5 Metros @ San Jose (12 noon start) Averages courtesy of www.kenn.com Year Average 1996 17,406 1997 14,619 1998 14,312 1999 14,282 2000 13,756 2001 14,961 2002 15,821 2003 14,727 Median 1996 15,093 1997 12,733 1998 11,871 1999 12,973 2000 12,690 2001 13,431 2002 14,108 2003 ?(anyone know)? Make your predictions
DC United @ Columbus 17,500 Colorado @ Kansas City 16,000 Los Angeles @ Chicago 15,100 New England @ Dallas 8000 Sunday, October 5 Metros @ San Jose 11,000 13,297 average for the week then...
Saturday @ Columbus : 15,500 @ Kansas City : 13,200 @ Chicago : 12,800 @ Dallas 7,700 Sunday, @ San Jose 10,800
He's back. Sort of missed him. Clb - 16,800 Chi - 15,100 KC - 13,200 Dal - 7,750 SJ - 9,100 (Sunday 1pm starts hurts San Jose this week) Avg (for weekend) - 12,390 Not a great week. What are out chances of reaching 15,000 average for the year? What do we have to average from here on in?
With 130 games played, the total attendance is: 1,914,429 In order to average 15,000, the total attendance after 150 games has to be 2,250,000 2,250,000 - 1,914,429 = 333,571 people are needed in the remaining 20 games. To reach the 15,000 mark, MLS needs to average 333,571/20 = 16,779 in the remaining games. That's going to be tough, if not impossible. Figures source: http://www.mlsnet.com/statistics/league.html
Incidentally, last year we averaged 18,574 in the last 20 games. I believe there were a couple of events, but you're right-- it's hardly impossible given that MLS has done it before.
Fun With Numbers Just for fun, and maybe to kick a man when he's down. . . Current MLS average = 14,726 Projected total attendance at current avg.=2,208,956 Difference from 2,500,000= 41,043 Dallas Burn Avg. 2003=7751 Burn projected total= 108,514 Dallas Burn Avg. 2002= 13,122 Dallas Burn Total 2002 = 183,700 Projected Difference in Burn Attendance=75,186 Conclusion: The Dallas Burn are to blame if MLS does not reach 15,000 this year. (BTW, there's plenty of other ways to manipulate these numbers to blame other factors, I know. I just figured this is the year to pile on to the scapegoat).
We do have a couple of high attendance prospects, though. +Chicago Fire's first Soldier Field game could bring in a huge crowd (maybe 30,000?). +Isn't there at least one more big WWC doubleheader (maybe New England)? +KC always gets a nice crowd (@20,000 - 23,000) for their last home game (20,704 in 2001 and 19,720 last season - expect more this season). +Colorado regularly has a decent gate for the last home game of the season (25,614 last season). +San Jose regularly picks its attendance up well the last month or so and last season had a big gate for the final Galaxy game (26,300 last season, ). +LA Galaxy home games are still plugging in at 23,000 for weekend games - there is still one big date there (especially with San Jose coming to town). We could even see closer to 25,000. (LA Galaxy last home date 2002 - 32,874). +The Metrostars v New England match on October 18 is going to be huge (playoff implications) - Connelly has already called people out - I think 30,000 is not possible, but a mid 20's gate would be possible. +Columbus is playing for pride and can pack them in late in the season (averaged 23,000 over last two dates in 2002). +We have no more Wednesday night games. In fact, Friday night is the only non-weekend match left. +We only have to eat two more Dallas home games out of around 20 remaining games. +All of the unused season tickets are going to be counted - we have probably already started to see some cases of increased numbers due to this factor. I don't think it is outside the realm of possibility to average 18,000 and change for the rest of the season. As always, weather plays a big role - especially since the season is running later this year.
I feel a little better about the chances of hitting the 15000 mark. Just a little The WWC moves to the west coast, with the semi-finals in Portland and the finals at HDC. There will be no WWC doubleheader games helping the cause. San Jose should see a nice crowd for the Galaxy game but that might be offset by Sunday's early afternoon game vs the Metros. San Jose has not done well at the gate with 1:00 games. What might help is this game is one of those "MLS soccer camp graduation" games IIRC and they are giving out Landon Donovan t-shirts.
Hope I'm wrong but, if the Giants and/or the A's end up playing on Sunday, on top of Mariucci coming back to SF to coach against the 49'ers at the same time the Quakes play, 9,000 may be a generous estimate.
FWIW, the front office is completely backlogged with ticket requests. They were up at or near 10,000 a week and a half ago.
I think this may be the largest or second largest midweek crowd ever for the Rapids (not including Holidays or US-MEXICO doublheader).
Attendance: 17,995 at Crew Stadium Attendance: 13,069 at Arrowhead Attendance: 11,874 at THE LAST GAME at Naperville Attendance: 8,917 at Dragon Stadium - is that a season high?
Attendence-1,976,500 Games-135 Average-14,641 To Reach 15,000: 2,250,000-1,976,500=273,500 273,500/15=18,233 per game Home Games: 2-CHI, MET, NE, DC, KC 1-CLB, DAL, LA, SJ, COL Doesn't look good, unless the Soldier Field games draw really well.
      Taking all of what you've mentioned into account along with the 1pm Sunday start, the 10,225 attendance is actually pretty decent. -G
2 games left CHI-- 27000, 20000 MET-- 22000, 22000 NE--- 15000, 22000 DC--- 16000, 21000 KC--- 14000, 15000 =194000 CLB-- 22000 DAL-- 9000 LA--- 22000 SJ--- 13000 COL--- 18000 =84000 278,000