Comments on: Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Week 32

By: Peter C

Peter C — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:13 +0000

Mat,

Yeah, Seattle kept changing their capacity and the weekly attendance reported was never the same, unlike in other stadiums where a sold out number matched their reported capacity.
I just used the posted soccer capacity of Qwest and let the numbers fall where they may. Kind of impossible to calculate 100% under those circumstances.

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:23:45 +0000

To nitpick: Seattle should be “100%” since the capacity fluctuated due to demand. To pick the end of year number, and compare them all statically is improper. They sold out every match.

By: Peter C

Peter C — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Vic,
What is it you are looking for? The numbers posted are direct from MLSnet. They do not include friendlies unless the match was part of a doubleheader with an MLS match, in which case MLS does not segregate the numbers. The attendees to those doubleheaders saw two games for one ticket. As far as I am aware, that has been MLS’s attendance reporting policy since its inception.

Out of curiosity, why address the question to Kartik? He didn’t write the post.

By: vic

vic — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:55:06 +0000

Kartik,
perhaps you should have a “Strictly MLS Attendance” sheet that excludes friendlies with international clubs (SJ minus Barca vs. Chivas, or Dal minus Mex.vs Col) to give a sense of what the real draw of MLS is.

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:31:05 +0000

Dynamo’s performance made me sick. When you consider the entire last several months, the Dynamo are the worst I have seen them in their history. Defensive lapses and boring play with little energy.

By: Peter C

Peter C — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:43:43 +0000

Lee,

Yes, it’s sometimes not exactly correct to label a team ‘A’ or ‘B’, but in the case of DC, Namoff and Quaranta were hurt, so not an option. To me that means the ‘A’ team for DC would not include them. In any case, I think we can agree that MLS roster restrictions create major problems when a team plays in tourneys.
Good point about the matchups.

ta mere:

Thanks for the update. I thought the stage was a permanent change. Will keep my eyes open for next year’s capacity.

By: ta mere

ta mere — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:58:30 +0000

A small point: Rio Tinto Stadium capacity is 20,008. It was down for a few games this season when a temporary stage took the place of some of the south stand seats, but it’s back up to 20k now.

By: Lee14

Lee14 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:20:47 +0000

Nice post but a couple of things….

In the CCL if you are going to call Toluca’s “B” team then it was also DCUs “B” team(No Olsen, Moreno, Namoff, Quaranta, Wicks, etc…, Jakovic subbed on in the 2nd half). In my personal opinion I think that it is silly to say “B” or “A” teams as all these teams in this tournament play different lineups every week as they have to with games every 3-4 days.

Also why I agree that Houston laid an egg against Metapan it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that they would win as they only beat them 1-0 at home so perhaps Metapan matched up with them well like Aribe Unido must have matched up against Pachuca well as they beat them in aggregate over the 2 games.