Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 21, 2017 11:14:04 GMT -5
A post by the moderator of voy. The attendance comparisons are odd years reflecting where the home games were played.
These are schools whose undergraduate enrollment is several times that of HC, and whose alumni base is correspondingly much larger.
The downward trajectory continues...
Attendance at Ivy vs. Ivy football games stayed relatively flat compared to the same games at the same locations 2 years ago -- down only 0.5%. The asterisk is that the total this year was inflated by the Brown/Dartmouth game at Fenway (more than 12,000 this year vs. 4,000 at Brown in 2015). Excluding that game, the decline from 2015 is 3.7%. Still not terrible, but it continues a downward trend, because 2015 was 9.3% lower than 2013.
TV viewership for the games on NBCSN (and CNBC for Y-H) is simply not good, and getting worse. The average viewership declined a whopping 26.7% from last year, which had already declined 12% from the prior year. The Y-H game experienced a significant drop. The most-watched game this year (Brown-Dartmouth) would have been among the least-watched just two years ago.
At some point you have to wonder if NBC will pull the plug -- unless they're getting a nice check from TIAA or the Ivy League for the broadcasts.
Attendance
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Average per game (excluding OoC games due to differing opponents each year)
2017: 9,393 (9,285 without the Fenway game)
2015: 9,446
2013: 10,416
2011: 10,119
NBCSN viewers (all games Friday night unless noted)
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2017:
dart/penn 80,000
prince/harv 86,000
cornell/prince(sat n) 62,000
brown/yale 76,000
dart/brown-fenway 89,000
harv/yale(sat-CNBC) 61,000
AVERAGE 75,667
2016:
penn/dart 120,000
penn/yale 102,000
yale/colum 55,000
harv/penn 133,000
yale/harv(sat-CNBC) 106,000
AVERAGE 103,200
2015:
colum/prince 74,000
yale/penn 147,000
dart/harv 96,000
cornell/dart 93,000
brown/colum 188,000
harv/yale(sat-twilight) 106,000
AVERAGE 117,333
Attendance at Ivy vs. Ivy football games stayed relatively flat compared to the same games at the same locations 2 years ago -- down only 0.5%. The asterisk is that the total this year was inflated by the Brown/Dartmouth game at Fenway (more than 12,000 this year vs. 4,000 at Brown in 2015). Excluding that game, the decline from 2015 is 3.7%. Still not terrible, but it continues a downward trend, because 2015 was 9.3% lower than 2013.
TV viewership for the games on NBCSN (and CNBC for Y-H) is simply not good, and getting worse. The average viewership declined a whopping 26.7% from last year, which had already declined 12% from the prior year. The Y-H game experienced a significant drop. The most-watched game this year (Brown-Dartmouth) would have been among the least-watched just two years ago.
At some point you have to wonder if NBC will pull the plug -- unless they're getting a nice check from TIAA or the Ivy League for the broadcasts.
Attendance
----------
Average per game (excluding OoC games due to differing opponents each year)
2017: 9,393 (9,285 without the Fenway game)
2015: 9,446
2013: 10,416
2011: 10,119
NBCSN viewers (all games Friday night unless noted)
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2017:
dart/penn 80,000
prince/harv 86,000
cornell/prince(sat n) 62,000
brown/yale 76,000
dart/brown-fenway 89,000
harv/yale(sat-CNBC) 61,000
AVERAGE 75,667
2016:
penn/dart 120,000
penn/yale 102,000
yale/colum 55,000
harv/penn 133,000
yale/harv(sat-CNBC) 106,000
AVERAGE 103,200
2015:
colum/prince 74,000
yale/penn 147,000
dart/harv 96,000
cornell/dart 93,000
brown/colum 188,000
harv/yale(sat-twilight) 106,000
AVERAGE 117,333
