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1. Best Regards, L.M. Posted: April 10, 2012 at 08:40 PM (#4103435)I hope - although it would be a slow change, humans are like that - they just move closer to computer accuracy.
It's hard to compare, given how different the seasons are and the fact that nearly every football game is on Sunday whereas baseball games are all week and can be day games during the workday.
More people go to NHL games than NFL ones.
The Canadian Football League has higher average attendance than Serie A soccer.
Australian Rules Football beats almost all comers at average attendance.
The list also doesn't seem to include Major League Soccer, which I believe has higher average attendance than either the NBA or the NHL in North America. So says this link, anyway.
Is there a rough estimate on how many people watch the NFL on TV vs. MLB? I think the NFL is going to start really suffering attendance problems, while their TV audience balloons.
High-school baseball is huge in Japan.
I thought it was just the two Koshien tournaments that were popular?
Wow. Makes you wonder why Thailand is so crap at soccer.
This is mainly because of how in other parts of the world, by the time athletic prospects are college age they are either in academies, playing in junior leagues, in the pros straight out of high school, etc.
Might some of it also be more of our population goes to college? Its not a given that even middle-class western Europeans will go to college someday, but we heard them up like they're degree factories.
That's awesome. Those are some crazy athletes.
Mostly it's the fact that there is no such thing as college sports over here. Of course there are some clubs around that cater mostly to students and are part of the community around an university, some quite serious, but students that do sports do it in the normal club/league setup for that sport.
I'm so glad I'm not alone. The only difference is that this channel will be much more focused on live action rather than the "studio to action to studio" kind of approach. But yeah, it seems like the same thing.
I figured this would be the MLB version of the NFL's Redzone channel, which is just basically all live games, switching to the ones where a team is likely to score and then also showing replays of every scoring play that they don't catch live. MLBN has the live look ins on their one show(MLB Tonight?) but that is a studio show, dedicated to recaps and talking head blather.
Of course, a strict average isn't necessarily appropriate, either; the NFL is advantaged there, since roughly 90% of all games are on weekends.
But gross attendance is worse than average attendance, in my opinion.
I realize gross isn't impressive, but MLB averages 30K a game for about a billion games a year. That is massively impressive, not just for the sheer numbers, but that they can keep the level of interest that high while supplying so much product.
Oh, certainly. There is definitely a sliding scale involved.
I guess I've just seen too many arguments touting MLB's superiority in moralizing tones based on gross attendance figures. I do not think you were doing so, but I was just throwing out a comment anyway.
Not sure this is true. Certainly the UK has an extremely high college rate, and in Denmark most people are educated to masters level -- that is the minimum expectation just as an Undergrad degree is in the UK/US.
The latest weird sport I came across was sepak takraw (kick volleyball). It looks like a cross between volleyball and soccer and seems like a good way to injure yourself.
Holy #### that is awesome.
Youth hockey is pretty big in Canada, right? But that's not the same thing as college hockey.
The two big-time college sports in the U.S., basketball and football, developed as college sports first and professional leagues second. I am guessing that is the primary reason for the discrepancy. Without the history that developed, there's no reason for those leagues to be associated with universities in other countries.
Those "live look-ins" are a long way from live. They are often 10-15 minutes after the fact. Maybe the Strike Zone Channel will be something more live.
That's also tickets sold, not actual attendance. MLB must have a higher no-show rate than the other sports, it's really easy to let some of 81 games slide unused, especially by corporate buyers.
And I've seen way too many idiots argue for popularity based upon tv ratings.
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