So while I know most of you don't care about the attendance debate and business side too much, I'm rather fascinated by it as it is interesting to watch the business of a fledgling new league. I have been talking about it a bit on Reddit this morning, so I'll share some stuff here too:
Between CanChamp home games and the CPL, the league has drawn 180,000 people in 39 games. Overall average of about 4618. League game average is 5080, and CanChamp average is 3275 - mostly pulled down by York. Weekday league game average is 4815, weekend is 6741 - the latter still dramatically inflated by Hamilton's opening game give away. Without that, the weekend average is around 6200.
York is a major problem for the league already. They are averaging less than 2400 over 6 games in all competitions, and drew only 700 for their CanChamp game against Edmonton. Their crowds have gotten smaller for each of their four league games.
Depending on some X-factors I can't really account for (such as how many SRO tickets are available per game, how many tickets are available in the accessible seating areas, etc), there's currently between 4200 and 4400 tickets sold or reserved for the game against the Whitecaps. At an average price of about $60. That's over a quarter million dollars on ticket sales alone.
Also, this shows how poorly optimized the middle sections are for revenue generation: The roughly 1000 seats in sections 101, 102, 108 and 109 at an average cost of around $37 are bringing in far more ticket revenue for that game than the just-over-quarter-sold 630 in section 105 are at $100 at this point. Plus, 1000 people in the cheap seats buy a lot more beer, merchandise and those surprisingly good hamburger-hot dogs than 250 people will.
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