Best Fans In the CFL - A Study

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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Stats from: http://www.geocities.com/cfl_historical ... ndance.htm

http://www.citypopulation.de/Canada-UA.html

Please vote based on the statistics provided below. Please read below before you vote.

Population of cities used the Urban Area population so that the surrounding areas around the main city are also included

Hamilton Tiger Cats
Stadium Capacity - 28,830
Avg 07 - 24,758
% Full - 85.8%
Area Pop - 647,634
% of Pop who attend games - 3.8%

Toronto Argos
Stadium Capacity - 52,595(the 5th deck was open in 07)
Avg 07 - 30,414
% Full - 57.8%
Area Pop - 4,753,120
% of Pop who attend games - 0.64%

Montreal Alouettes
Stadium Capacity - 20,202
Avg 07 - 20,202
% Full - 100%
Area Pop - 3,316,615
% of Pop who attend games - 0.61%

Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Stadium Capacity - 29,533
Avg 07 - 27,701
% Full - 93.8%
Area Pop - 641,483
% of Pop who attend games - 4.3%

Edmonton Eskimos
Stadium Capacity - 60,081
Avg 07 - 37,791
% Full - 62.9%
Area Pop - 862,544
% of Pop who attend games - 4.4%

Calgary Stampeders
Stadium Capacity - 35,650
Avg 07 - 31,332
% Full - 87.9%
Area Pop - 988,079
% of Pop who attend games - 3.2%

BC Lions
Stadium Capacity - 59,479
Avg 07 - 31,432
% Full - 52.8%
Area Pop - 1,953,252
% of Pop who attend games - 1.6%

Saskatchewan Roughriders
Stadium Capacity - 28,800
Avg 07 - 27,457
% Full - 95.3%
Area Pop - 179,246
% of Pop who attend games - 15.3%

Summary - % Full

MTL - 100.0%
SSK - 95.3%
WPG - 93.8%
CGY - 87.9%
HAM - 85.8%
EDM - 62.9%
TOR - 57.8%
BC - 52.8%

Summary - % of Pop who attend games

SSK - 15.3%
EDM - 4.4%
WPG - 4.3%
HAM - 3.8%
CGY - 3.2%
BC - 1.6%
TOR - 0.64%
MTL - 0.61%

A few things to consider.

Regina has the smallest population of all the "host areas" but they don't sell out their games.

Montreal plays in the smallest stadium and when they play in the Big O, the don't sell it out anymore.

Toronto has now closed off the 5th deck of the Rogers Centre so the lower bowls hold about 30,000 people.

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I don't understand your stats. What's that got to do with anything?

Are you just trying to justify why 15,000 only at the last home game! 18,000 the game before that.
Right now Hamilton would have the worst fans.

Would your stats by population work for hockey too?
I remember the last winter Olympics. The Gold Medal game was rated the highest TV rating for any sporting even in Canadian history.

They stated that 4 million Canadians watched the game - its "our" game and all of Canada was watching. A friend said to me "4 Million Canadians watching Team Canada - WoW - I wonder what the other 29 million Canadians were watching"

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I happen to think this is the most interesting topic I have seen in a long long time. Then again I love playing with numbers and percentages. So this topic was right up my alley.

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I think there are so many variables that those statistics don't account for, it would be problematic to come up with an interesting answer. Any conclusion you draw will be based on the assumption of "all other things being equal", which of course they are not.

Lots of factors contribute to game attendance: win-loss records of the teams, ticket prices, weather, logistics of transportation and parking for games, numerous demographic factors (population per square km, stats relating to local market conditions i.e. competition for entertainment budgets, demographics on the local population e.g. distributions of age, income, mobility, number of years residency in Canada), etc.

Besides, the stats are moot. Everybody already knows that Saskatchewan has the best fans. :wink:

For entertainment purposes, an interesting stat might be "average distance traveled from home to stadium per person per game".