High-scoring, offensive baseball did not resonate with baseball fans in a statistically significant way. Stadium size also did not have a strong correlation. This is a critical insight because stadium size has often been viewed as a constraint for attendance, especially when a team has a high degree of popularity. In fact, our data shows that teams in smaller stadiums were more likely to have sellouts, even when that team had a poor won-lost record, such as the Pittsburg Pirates. Most teams fell well short of maximum capacity, indicating that for all but a small minority of teams stadium capacity was not a significant constraint on attendance.
The mean attendance in major league baseball in 2005 was 2,496,457.9 for a team, or 30,820.5 per game. There was no mode. The median...
The difference between the median and mean is 328.5 fans per game, which is only marginally significant (1.06% of the mean). The data is therefore considered to be well-dispersed. The standard deviation from the mean is 661,569.7 people, which indicates a fairly high degree of disparity in the results. The range has no skew.
The range for the data is from 1,141,915 for Tampa Bay to 4,090,440 for the New York Yankees. The correlation with salary is immediately evident, as Tampa Bay had the lowest salary in baseball at 29.7 while the Yankees had the highest at 208.3 million. The correlation with wins is also in evidence, given that Tampa Bay had just 67 wins while the Yankees had 95 wins. The lack of correlation with…
