Comments on Wisconsin Sports Tap: An Attendance Pitch

FYI, I did the quick-and-dirty GLM modeling and it...

2009-12-17T14:58:16.956-06:00

FYI, I did the quick-and-dirty GLM modeling and it's not surprising that the weekday vs. weekend factor and Bobble head factors are the only notable factors. Actually, Parra comes out as being weakly significant as having a negative effect on attendance, but that's likely linked to him pitching only 3 weekend games and random chance.

It's worth noting that the Doug Melvin Bobblehead day drew only 30,000 on Sunday, Sept 20 with Gallardo pitching and messed up all of the Bobblehead numbers so I had to remove it as a Bobblehead day. Sept 13th game drew a paltry 21,453 with Villenueva pitching so we can't say Doug Melvin drove people away. ;-)

Thanks again for the data!

Thanks! It worked perfect.

2009-12-17T13:15:03.370-06:00

Thanks! It worked perfect.

Spreadsheet is available. That was my first attem...

2009-12-17T11:15:40.239-06:00

Spreadsheet is available.

That was my first attempt at a google document, so let me know if there is any trouble with it.

Thanks for taking KL @BCB up on his request. I wa...

2009-12-17T09:29:48.494-06:00

Thanks for taking KL @BCB up on his request. I was quite curious myself. Would you be willing to release your dataset so others can take a look? I'd be interested in a quick and dirty Generalized Linear Model (log transform on attendance?). Thanks!

True. I'd usually buy tickets then look ahead...

2009-12-17T08:27:06.802-06:00

True. I'd usually buy tickets then look ahead to see who would be pitching that day, not the other way around. I swear most of the games I went to last season ended up being Suppan. I do enjoy watching Bush pitch, though he had a rough season I like him still. I saw several Yovanni games, and was always initially excited, but ended up getting treated to a snorefest as the Brewer bats usually went dead those days.