Category: MLB Attendance
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The Baseball Attendance Myth
“Statistics do not lie but liars use statistics” Major League Baseball has continued to promote that it is back and better than ever, mostly by stating that rules changes employed in 2022 have helped to increase attendance at ballparks. Those rule changes included the implementation of the pitch clock, extra inning ghost runner, and the limitation…
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2024 Baseball Attendance
It was the prevailing theory that the introduction of the pitch clock and other measures to speed up the game resulted in the attendance jump in 2023. That year, attendance increased by more than 6 million fans or 9.6%. It was our thought in this prior post from the end of the 2023 season that…
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Attendance Check In
We posted about the year over year (2022 vs 2023) attendance increase in our post, titled Mind Bending Attendance Logic from this past October. As a quick reminder, we noted in that post that MLB was celebrating the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year and attributing the increase to the implementation of…
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Mind Bending Attendance Logic
After just concluding the season, MLB and the media are touting the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year (2022) and for the most part believe that the new rule changes were the main factors driving this increase. The current season saw attendance top the 70 million mark for all thirty clubs, which…
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Maybe Size Matters
One of the reasons touted by MLB that the game needs rescuing are the flat attendance figures. In 2007, MLB reached a high in its history of 79.5 million fans attending games that year. That number slid into the mid 70 million level and further dipped below 70 million since 2018. Of course the Covid…
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Opening Day and Shorter Games
The media is falling over itself and raving about shorter games and how they are going to transform the baseball experience after introducing pitch clocks for the first time on this opening day. What though is actually causing a reduction in attendance levels and is that attributable to the length of the games? Were radical…