http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5491 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5491/comment-page-1#comment-16383 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:08:55 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5491#comment-16383 Weather effects as well? Was unseasonably warm in many baseball parks these first two weeks, esp. opening week IIRC.

]]> http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5491/comment-page-1#comment-16369 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:49:50 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5491#comment-16369 I see Oakland is way down on what was already pitiful attendance. Send em back to Philly!

]]> http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5491/comment-page-1#comment-16361 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:13:28 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5491#comment-16361 The Eyjafjallajökull Effect probably won't be setting in till next week, I'd guess.

]]> http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5491/comment-page-1#comment-16356 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:31:34 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5491#comment-16356 A few other things could be affecting the numbers this early on: I would expect teams with fewer overall home games to have higher average attendances due to the magnified effect of the huge opening day bump, and those teams who have hosted bigger drawing teams (i.e. more people want to see a team host the Yankees than the Blue Jays (no offense meant Toronto)) should also have higher average attendances at this point.

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