MinorHockeyFan
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- Jan 9, 2020
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Hello folks, first post so go easy on me.
I have recently gotten very interested in minor pro hockey, mainly the ECHL, and find it unusual/interesting how some teams manage to sell out and have great attendance like Toledo, Fort Wayne, Jacksonville. I have started to go out to a lot of my local ECHL teams games and noticed a suspicious discrepancy. The attendance they record is far higher than what is actually at the game.
For example, me and my buddy went to a game my friend was curious and literally counted every single person in the stadium about halfway through the 2nd period (when most ppl were in their seats) and he counted 389. The attendance recorded on the game sheet online was over 2400. Even is some people were out of their seats, or left early, it was still no where near 2400. I am certain they fib the numbers.
These are the published attendance figures for the Brampton Beast:
Brampton Beast [ECHL] yearly attendance at hockeydb.com
I am absolutely certain they have exaggerated the numbers. The stadium is very barren at games, sometimes entire sections have just one or 2 people in them. The fact they have been begging the city for tax dollars only furthers my suspicion they have serious attendance problems.
Now my question is why would a team lie about attendance? I there any incentive to do so? Do other teams do this?
Thanks.
I have recently gotten very interested in minor pro hockey, mainly the ECHL, and find it unusual/interesting how some teams manage to sell out and have great attendance like Toledo, Fort Wayne, Jacksonville. I have started to go out to a lot of my local ECHL teams games and noticed a suspicious discrepancy. The attendance they record is far higher than what is actually at the game.
For example, me and my buddy went to a game my friend was curious and literally counted every single person in the stadium about halfway through the 2nd period (when most ppl were in their seats) and he counted 389. The attendance recorded on the game sheet online was over 2400. Even is some people were out of their seats, or left early, it was still no where near 2400. I am certain they fib the numbers.
These are the published attendance figures for the Brampton Beast:
Brampton Beast [ECHL] yearly attendance at hockeydb.com
I am absolutely certain they have exaggerated the numbers. The stadium is very barren at games, sometimes entire sections have just one or 2 people in them. The fact they have been begging the city for tax dollars only furthers my suspicion they have serious attendance problems.
Now my question is why would a team lie about attendance? I there any incentive to do so? Do other teams do this?
Thanks.