Pat Yourself on the Back Shocker Fans

[1972Shocker]

http://goshockers.com/news/2017/8/8/mens-basketball-shocker-attendance-tops-mvc-american-lists.aspx

[Shocker1388]

http://goshockers.com/news/2017/8/8/...can-lists.aspx

But I thought Bradley was on top of attendance? Silly me! Lmfao!

[DUShock]

What would be nice is if the release shared the opponent attendance for the Shocks compared to their attendance. I believe some intrepid poster has already completed the task.

Go Shocks!

[1972Shocker]

Sully's Shockwaves Blog on this.

http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/shockwaves/article166146507.html

[1972Shocker]

What would be nice is if the release shared the opponent attendance for the Shocks compared to their attendance. I believe some intrepid poster has already completed the task.

Go Shocks!

Is this what you were looking for?

TEAM	HOME vs WSU	HOME AVG ex-WSU	+/- %
BRD	9124	5228	+74.5
DRK	3024	2804	+7.8
EVN	4019	4122	-2.5
ILS	9078	5747	+58.0
INS	4550	3899	+16.7
LOY	4156	1709	+143.2
MSU	6823	4021	+70.4
UNI	5547	4452	+24.6
SIU	4447	4485	-0.8
TOTAL	50768	36467	+39.2

[Wooglin]

I am willing to guess the 39% bump is in a very high percentile for D1 teams. It indicates a big fish in a little pond.

[pogo]

Wow there must be several Eville type schools in the AAC to bring the conference average down as much as it did. I can probably guess which ones.

[rrshock]

I like the LOY jump. That's just straight impressive. And I guess SIU and Eville fans knew the outcome and didn't bother coming for that one.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Wow there must be several Eville type schools in the AAC to bring the conference average down as much as it did. I can probably guess which ones.

Tulane is Loyola 2.0.

It's disappointing--and surprising to some degree--that Memphis has such low attendance during some bad years. I figured the fanbase was a little more fanatical than that. But when they start winning again they should help conference attendance numbers dramatically.

[im4wsu]

Here are the capacities of the MVC and AAC arenas and last year's attendance (the AAC total excludes WSU):

Wichita	KS	Wichita State	The American	10,506	10,738	102.2%
Cincinnati	OH	Cincinnati	The American	13,176	9,865	74.9%
Storrs	CT	Connecticut	The American	10,167	8,505	83.7%
Greenville	NC	East Carolina	The American	8,000	4,005	50.1%
Houston	TX	Houston	The American	8,469	4,114	48.6%
Memphis	TN	Memphis men	The American	18,119	9,622	53.1%
University Park	TX	SMU	The American	7,000	6,899	98.6%
Tampa	FL	South Florida	The American	10,411	2,585	24.8%
Philadelphia	PA	Temple	The American	10,205	5,805	56.9%
New Orleans	LA	Tulane	The American	3,600	1,707	47.4%
Tulsa	OK	Tulsa	The American	8,355	4,325	51.8%
Orlando	FL	UCF	The American	9,465	4,620	48.8%
			The American	106,967	62,052	58.0%
Peoria	IL	Bradley men	Missouri Valley	11,164	5,487	49.1%
Des Moines	IA	Drake	Missouri Valley	7,152	2,843	39.8%
Evansville	IN	Evansville	Missouri Valley	10,000	4,115	41.2%
Normal	IL	Illinois State	Missouri Valley	10,200	5,943	58.3%
Terre Haute	IN	Indiana State	Missouri Valley	10,200	3,945	38.7%
Chicago	IL	Loyola (Chicago)	Missouri Valley	4,486	1,861	41.5%
Springfield	MO	Missouri State	Missouri Valley	11,000	4,185	38.0%
Cedar Falls	IA	Northern Iowa	Missouri Valley	6,650	4,535	68.2%
Carbondale	IL	Southern Illinois	Missouri Valley	8,339	4,485	53.8%
			Missouri Valley	79,191	37,399	47.2%

[RoyalShock]

What would be nice is if the release shared the opponent attendance for the Shocks compared to their attendance. I believe some intrepid poster has already completed the task.

Go Shocks!

I did an analysis of this during our 35-0 season. And wouldn't you know it, just a few weeks ago I deleted the spreadsheet I used. But what I recall is that attendance at WSU's road conference games experienced a roughly 50% increase over the average.

[RoyalShock]

I found my posts in the thread from 2014:

I wanted to see how many more people are going to Valley games at MVC venues when WSU is in town. Not including Loyola or Bradley, the other seven schools average 4778 per game against teams other than WSU. The average for the seven games involving WSU is 8072. That's 3294 more fans (nearly 70%) when WSU is the opponent. Total that up and it comes to 23,058.

I have no idea what other schools charge for those extra tickets, and surely there were some cheap ticket promotions in order to boost numbers. But if we try to put it in terms of dollars, using a wild (and perhaps conservative) guess of $7 for average ticket price, that's about $161,000 of additional revenue spread over seven MVC schools. Obviously not a program-changing amount of money, but I'm sure our Valley brethren aren't complaining about $20k more revenue than expected for just one game.

I should mention there is an outlier in the data. Attendance for the game at SIU was actually less than their average without WSU. Surely due to it being a low-point for SIU and before talk of WSU running the table really started to heat up.

From user @bunck:

I believe the students were gone too.

After eliminating SIU from the data, the numbers change to:

WSU game average: 8602
Non-WSU game avg: 4746
Difference: 3856 (81% higher)

Using the same assumption of $7/ticket, that's right at $27k per school.

So it wasn't 50%, but between 70 and 81%, depending on if the game with SIU while students were gone is included in the data.

If I include the Bradley and Loyola games (they hadn't been played when the above posts were made), the increase is about 76%.

[AZ Shocker]

Wonder if we'll see similar (increased) numbers in AAC play. Will the bigger cities in the AAC draw more when the Shocks come to town??? I'm guessing yes.

[Cdizzle]

Wonder if we'll see similar (increased) numbers in AAC play. Will the bigger cities in the AAC draw more when the Shocks come to town??? I'm guessing yes.

The number 1 team in the country generally draws a crowd.