This could be a helpful resource for baseball attendance figures ....

[Shmuley]

Of course, I have no idea how any of this info is gathered, nor how the figures are tabulated. I doubt very seriously that the figures can ever be verified or made uniform. Still, interesting to look at and potentially discuss.

http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2013/attendance130218.pdf

 

[KurtRambis4]

DerHntr

We're gonna need some help with this on your end...

 

[MedDawg]

Likely paid attendance=season tix+game walkup tix. My question....

Of course, I have no idea how any of this info is gathered, nor how the figures are tabulated. I doubt very seriously that the figures can ever be verified or made uniform. Still, interesting to look at and potentially discuss.

http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2013/attendance130218.pdf

Are MSU students counted in baseball attendance figures? How do they get into games? Flashing a student ID?

 

[Will James]

Are MSU students counted in baseball attendance figures? How do they get into games? Flashing a student ID?

They scan it. So it counts attendance. Oddly the outfield gate yesterday was tearing the tickets not scanning them.

 

[Railin Jemmye]

Does anyone know our season ticket allotment? Are we sold out?

If so, it'd be easy to calculate this.

MSU: Per hailstate.com, 4,496 will be counted every game, those are the grandstand chairbacks and skybox seats. So that's means 2,065 folks walked into the game (6,561 total).

Ole Miss: 6,100 chairbacks, 2,242 walked into the game (8,342 total).

So as you can see, the difference is the 6,100-4,496 = 1,604 extra chairbacks they have. Plus they have 177 more folks coming in through general admission. There's your 1,781 difference.

So, expand the stadium, sell the tickets, and you will see our attendance go up above Ole Miss'. I have no clue what Arkansas does, but they have tradition similar to ours, maybe a tad below. Not surprising to see LSU and South Carolina up there, they have passed us as far as baseball programs go.


Edit: On another note, our actual attendance on Friday was 3,403, paid was 5,817. So we that they were counting walk-ups. So that's roughly 3,158, or 70% of our grandstand ticket holders, that aren't showing up. SEVENTY. There's more mfers in the bleachers and outfield than there is in the stands. Something needs to be done about that ****.

 

[MedDawg]

One way for State to increase season ticket sales/attendance...

...would be to limit the total tickets sold. Right now, State fans know they can always just walk up and buy tickets to any game they want.

However, if State announced that we won't sell more than, say, 11,000 tickets for any game (not counting regionals), the you will see a lot more State fans buy season tickets just to make sure they don't get shut out of the biggest games. Increasing season ticket sales increases official attendance for each game, as we have seen already.. Plus, more fans might actually come to games--since they already bought season tickets, they might as well go. Doesn't have to be 11k. Could be 11,500, or 12,000, etc. We really only bump those figures 1-3 times a season anyway.

I'm not really advocating this now, this was my idea years ago before LSU built their new stadium and when we were #2 in the country in attendance--do the above with a big marketing season ticket campaign ("let's be #1" kind of thing), and we could have passed LSU. Now there is no way to pass LSU, so I haven't brought it up again.

 

[esplanade91]

We've got to up our video production and teach old farts who care about baseball what twitter is before we can hashtag anything.

 

[patdog]

No doubt. Attendance is tickets sold (season tickets + single game sales). As for UM, I talked to a friend who went to the Saturday game in 40 degree weather. He said about 5,000 were actually there. Which I thought was pretty impressive for that weather.