Average Attendance for North American Sports Leagues [OC]Submitted by BoMcCready t3_117868y in dataisbeautiful
oren0 t1_j9dgebf wrote
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>SEC football for example has Knoxville gathering 120k fans for a game on the regular.
Not sure where you're getting that number, but Neyland only seats 101k. The 3 highest capacity stadiums are actually all in the big 10. It is true that the largest crowd ever (156k) to see a college football game was in Tennessee, but that was a one-time event at the NASCAR track in Bristol.
CMFETCU t1_j9dim6w wrote
The fans do not all fit in the stadium. A game day at Neyland has thousands outside the stadium there for the game as traveling fans into Knoxville. The traffic is an nee after a game, and downtown is a mess to be avoided.
Anyone who travels by car for the game to the site of the game, whether they fit inside the stadium or not, is absolutely a fan. Since they pay for parking to do BBQs in the parking lot, are issued tickets for this, and are traceable; it seems relevant to call out their existence.
If you want to strictly define attendees inside that study ms that is fine, but it does paint a different picture than that on the ground of many events.
oren0 t1_j9doi4w wrote
Yeah I get it, but if you want to count tailgaters and people near the stadium for college football, you'd have to do the same thing for every other sport. Those numbers are uncountable.
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