How Has the Cubs Attendance Been This Season?

[jwmann2]

Watching the Reds - Cubs opener and it looks rather empty; the emptiest I have ever seen it on television. But I assume only because of the cold weather. I guess the true fans come out on bad weather games and for sunny afternoons, the businessmen and Execs head out to the ballpark.

[jersey cubs fan]

what the hell is a true fan?

[Irishoshea21]

Landed tickets for 4 bucks on Sunday. IF they're gonna suck, it might as well be cheap.

[Little Slide Rooter]

what the hell is a true fan?

 

Those who are willing to pay top dollar for ticket prices to see an awful team play in equally awful weather. And dump beer on opposing outfielders. Duh.

[CUBZ99]

what the hell is a true fan?

 

Obviously not you, if you have to ask. :D

[bukie]

what the hell is a true fan?

Someone who doesn't care about the product on the field. Someone who is just there to be there.

[Fred Hornkohl]

There's a disconnect between ticket sales and actual attendance, as in butts in the seats. The numbers that are announced these days are the total of all tickets sold, and not the actual number of people who came through the turnstyles. That being said, the CUBS are actually ahead of last year through their first 8 home dates........

 

                 2012          2011          2010          2009          2008          2007          2006          2005
# Dates              8             8             8             8             8             8             8             8
Attendance      296789        265741        311455        316655        317207        300099        311276        308109
Capacity         41210         41210         41210         41210         41210         41118         41118         41118
% Capacity      0.9002        0.8061        0.9447        0.9605        0.9622        0.9123        0.9463        0.9367
Average          37099         33218         38932         39582         39651         37512         38910         38514
High             41176         41358         41306         40878         41089         41388         40881         39892
Low              31973         26292         37291         38403         37812         32126         36708         36791
Std Dev         2816.0        4773.4        1398.4         805.0        1200.0        2679.2        1659.7        1003.7
Sellouts             0             1             1             0             0             1             0             0

 

..... but are seriously behind all years from 2005-2010.

[A New Era]

just one question Fred. How big is your super computer where you keep all this information?

[UMFan83]

just one question Fred. How big is your super computer where you keep all this information?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer.jpg/800px-IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer.jpg

 

And that's just the computer that creates the play by play for each game.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm assuming today was a combo of a brutal team and (mostly) REALLY awful weather, but I was going by Addison on the Red Line at 1:30, and the corner in front of the stadium was surprisingly sparse. Again, it was pretty nasty in terms of cold and wind, but it barely looked like game day out there. Not many people getting off the train looking like they were going to the game, either.

[Careless]

Reasonably full today, and it's in the low 40s out there

[J.R.]

The Cubs have a season ticket base somewhere around ~25,000, give or take a thousand. With over half the park already sold, it doesn't take much in the way of single ticket advance/walkup sales to put together a nice total.

 

Wrigley hasn't seen a significant stretch of sub-20,000 games since the early weeks of 1998, on the heels of the disastrous 1997 campaign, just four years after the industry-crippling strike and before Wood/Sosa took off. Incoincedentally, those were also the days when you could show up a week before the opener and buy season tickets in fantastic locations. Big crowds were common on summer weekends, but the Cubs always struggled to sell games in April and early May.

 

The Cubs' attendance will continue to be insulated by strong season ticket sales so long as memories of white-hot demand in 2003-2004 linger. Those years created the waiting list, and new buyers coming into the fold should sustain ticket sales until/unless continually brutal on-field performance leads to the list becoming irrelevant.

[Pushfrog98]

just one question Fred. How big is your super computer where you keep all this information?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer.jpg/800px-IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer.jpg

 

And that's just the computer that creates the play by play for each game.

I think for stats, he uses this:

http://blog.emergingscholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/4387282631_91f02e1c18_o.jpg

[UMFan83]

Wow tickets for the Cardinals series as low as $4 on Stubhub this week. It's during the week so not as much Missouri trash is heading up here but Monday and Tuesday are night games against our arch rival. Pretty good indicator the demand is rather low.

[Soul]

All I know is there were a lot of empty seats today, in prime locations.

 

I'm all for building this team up from scratch, but there's no doubt many fans are choosing to do other things rather than go down to Wrigley. Whether they are selling those tix or just eating the cost, I don't know. I'm sure the cold weather has had something to do with it as well.

[TrekJohnC]

For what it's worth I'm going down to Wrigley in two weeks :)

 

 

TrekJohnC

[Irishoshea21]

How has capacity not changed from last year? The bleacher patio thing in right took out seats (I think?), and they've removed entire rows in the 200 level for handicapped seating.

[jersey cubs fan]

How has capacity not changed from last year? The bleacher patio thing in right took out seats (I think?), and they've removed entire rows in the 200 level for handicapped seating.

 

That RF portion of the bleachers was practially devoid of seating to begin with. I doubt it took away much capacity, if at all.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

It went from 41,210 to 41,159.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'd just like to know when the rooftops hit groupon again.

[Heisenberg]

Cubs attendance is pretty awesome for how the team is doing and how bad they are unfortunately. #1 percentage-wise in the whole league for overall attendance which is nice. Still only a month in though.

[Soul]

I just listed some tix on Stub Hub. HOLY [expletive] [expletive]. I'm going to take a bath of biblical proportions.

[SouthSideRyan]

I just listed some tix on Stub Hub. HOLY [expletive] [expletive]. I'm going to take a bath of biblical proportions.

 

I bid two bits

[treebird]

I just listed some tix on Stub Hub. HOLY [expletive] [expletive]. I'm going to take a bath of biblical proportions.

 

I bid two bits

 

you probably pay like 5 grand for a shave and a haircut, so soul is in luck

[SouthSideRyan]

I just listed some tix on Stub Hub. HOLY [expletive] [expletive]. I'm going to take a bath of biblical proportions.

 

I bid two bits

 

you probably pay like 5 grand for a shave and a haircut, so soul is in luck

 

You know I don't pay for haircuts.