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Originally Posted by moon
I am surprised that there are not more NBA teams as by all accounts attendence in the league is awful and may even make the NHL look good.
But I guess it could be because teams didn't have much to lose from the 2001 numbers.
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Yeah, I think NBA attendance peaked in 2006 or so and has declined since then. So there's a bubble there that this doesn't capture. I think if you looked at attendance between 2006 and now, you'd see more NBA franchises on this list.
For that matter, a much better methodology would be to take a team's peak attendance in the last decade compared to current attendance, average it over the number of years the decline occured, and then list them in that order. That way, it would capture sudden declines more effectively.