Correlation between kickoff time and attendance?
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You have to factor in what was going on in the area during game time too.
Were the Storm or Sounders playing?
Did the WTO dare to show it's corporate face in Seattle?
Was Husky Stadium considered a safe place?
Were fast food workers on strike?
Was there a pride parade?
There are a lot of factors here. -
Quality of the ticket sales team to reach non-traditional audiences new to viewing football, is what matters most.
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Player who lead Huskyjacks in practice that week can't be ignored
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OKOK!TTJ said:To pass the summer doldrums, I started comparing Husky Stadium attendance numbers based on kickoff times, over the 3-year period since HS was remodeled. (It is confirmed: I live a miserable and pathetic life.) Obviously, quality-of-Huskies and quality-of-opponent are the strongest predictors of attendance, as it should be. But as a curmudgeonly old fuck who pines for the traditional 12:30 timeslot and is sick of all the night games, I expected to find at least some discernible trend of better attendance with day games and worse attendance at night.
In fact, I didn't find a damn thing. See the attached scatter chart. I guess you could says the 11:00A and 8:00P timeslots predict poorer attendance -- duh -- but that's about it. Maybe three seasons is just too weak a data set. Maybe the attendance figures reported in official game stats at gohuskies.com reports seat sold, rather than turnstiles turned (not sure). Or maybe a lot of Husky Football fans care a lot less about kickoff times than I do. -
Does anyone know if water makes things wet?
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If we were a great team, playing another great team...people would show up at midnight to see a great game. With that said, I also like the traditional start time of 12:30.
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Later kickoffs are strongly correlated with lower attendance.
If we just scheduled all our games in 2003 or earlier we would sell out every season. -
POTDFremontTroll said:Later kickoffs are strongly correlated with lower attendance.
If we just scheduled all our games in 2003 or earlier we would sell out every season. -
Which is why we play our games at 10 pm eastern. We know they don't care about some soft, mediocre team from the west coast.RaceBannon said:Quality of team and opponent matters most
