Brewers break season attendance record (reply #58)

[ilovebeer]

The Brewers are averaging 36,726, with 20 home dates left they will fall short of 3 million by just over 25000. It still could happen with sellouts crowd. I think 14 out of the 20 games should be over 40000.

[owbc]

JSonline is reporting that the 3 millionth ticket will be sold this week! Another great year of attendance at Miller Park.

[hawing]

Yep, here is a link. Nice job (again), Brewers fans!

[liveforoctober]

Brewers' record for a season was obviously '08 when they sold 3,068,458 tickets. This season, through 66 games they are sitting at 2,453,617 tickets sold... or 614,841 tickets short of the record. With 15 remaining home games .. the Brewers would need to average 40,989 fans per game in order to break that record. Plausible? No. Possible? Kind of.

 

I'm not sure why I'm so interested in breaking the attendance record this year ... but it feels like we are suppose to. We need to sell out from here on out ...

[1992casey]

Splitting hairs with the definitions of the words, I'd say that it's both plausible and possible that the Brewers could break the record, but not probable. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[hawing]

I thought I'd read a quote from Rick Schlesinger that indicated the Brewers did not necessarily expect to top the 2008 record, but did expect to reach 3 million. That would give them leeway for some under-40K crowds. Indeed, here is the brewers.com link.

 

10,000 tickets sold per day lately. That sounds impressive to me.

[adamds22]

By my calculations we would need to average 40,990 per game for the remaining of the regular season to beat our 2008 attendance totals and so far since the all-star break we have averaged 41,481 a game. Hopefully we can set an attendance record this year!

[topper09er]

We have 0 September home days games which are basically impossible to sell out since kids are back to school, so that will help a lot. There is no reason not to expect 40,000+ at every home game down the stretch.

[adamds22]

I'm sure we'll see big numbers for the Cards series this week and the Phillies series in a couple weeks too, the only thing I can see happening is once we clinch the numbers may drop a bit being we play the Pirates and the Reds as the last 6 games of the season but hopefully we will be close to catching Philly for the #1 seed at that point!

[ilovebeer]

Even Thursday 3pm start will have a big crowd. I don't get why they are starting at 3pm. Also the Thursday game vs the Phillies goes up agaist Green Bays opener is close to sro.

[LaprilOne]

Just wondering, if we have clinched by the last series, or before, people may still show up, as playoff tickets will be hard to get unless you are a season ticket holder.

 

I had to switch out my final weekend games for two of the Pirates game, due to being out of town. Obviously, I hope we are in by then, but would still go, just to soak it up.

[KCBrewerfan34]

A little off topic, I tried to google it but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know how to find the 10 largest crowds in Miller Park history?

[topper09er]

A little off topic, I tried to google it but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know how to find the 10 largest crowds in Miller Park history?

Go here, sort by attendance and manually remove away games. Then repeat for every year in Miller Park history and keep track of the top 10

 

http://www.baseball-refer...01-schedule-scores.shtml

[ilovebeer]

You can find the top 10 biggest crowds in the media guide.

[ilovebeer]

I don't think clinching to early will be a problem, There may be a race for home field advantage, Braun going for the batting title, best home record of all time, a chance of 100 wins and for those who can't make it to the playoffs a chance to say bye to Prince.

[young guns]

Also the Thursday game vs the Phillies goes up agaist Green Bays opener is close to sro.

That day is one of the BP come on back club promotion games. That's how I got tickets to it...I remembered later it was opening day. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif But still plan on going.

[1992casey]

A little off topic, I tried to google it but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know how to find the 10 largest crowds in Miller Park history?

Let me know if you see a mistake; I won't be offended. My Excel capabilities are limited. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Crowds of 43,000 or more at Miller Park

Rank	Year	Date	Opponent	Attendance
1	2003	Saturday, Sep 6	CHC	46,218
2	2011	Monday, Apr 4	ATL	46,017
3	2010	Monday, Apr 5	COL	45,808
4	2009	Friday, Apr 10	CHC	45,455
5	2008	Thursday, Jul 31	CHC	45,346
6	2007	Monday, Apr 2	LAD	45,341
7	2008	Monday, Jul 28	CHC	45,311
8	2008	Sunday, Sep 28	CHC	45,299
9	2008	Saturday, Sep 27	CHC	45,288
10	2008	Friday, Apr 4	SFG	45,212
11	2008	Sunday, Aug 24	PIT	45,163
12	2006	Saturday, May 13	NYM	45,150
13	2011	Sunday, Aug 14	PIT	45,103
14	2005	Saturday, Jul 16	WSN	45,079
15	2008	Tuesday, Jul 29	CHC	45,069
16	2006	Monday, Apr 3	PIT	45,023
17	2004	Monday, Jul 5	CHC	45,016
18	2008	Wednesday, Jul 30	CHC	44,871
19	2007	Friday, May 18	MIN	44,759
20	2009	Sunday, May 3	ARI	44,727
21	2005	Saturday, Jun 25	MIN	44,685
22	2008	Sunday, Jun 1	HOU	44,613
23	2009	Sunday, May 31	CIN	44,594
24	2008	Sunday, Sep 7	SDP	44,568
25	2009	Saturday, May 9	CHC	44,428
26	2007	Saturday, May 19	MIN	44,427
27	2004	Friday, Apr 9	HOU	44,405
28	2011	Saturday, Jul 30	HOU	44,306
29	2009	Saturday, May 30	CIN	44,172
30	2008	Saturday, Apr 26	FLA	44,169
31	2009	Saturday, Jun 13	CHW	44,100
32	2011	Saturday, Aug 27	CHC	44,091
33	2008	Friday, Sep 26	CHC	44,084
34	2007	Sunday, Jun 24	KCR	44,064
35	2008	Sunday, Apr 6	SFG	44,014
36	2006	Saturday, Sep 2	FLA	44,005
37	2011	Saturday, Jun 25	MIN	43,980
38	2011	Sunday, Jul 10	CIN	43,896
39	2008	Saturday, Jun 14	MIN	43,812
40	2009	Saturday, Apr 11	CHC	43,768
41	2007	Sunday, Aug 5	PHI	43,716
42	2001	Saturday, Jul 14	MIN	43,624
43	2009	Saturday, Jul 25	ATL	43,565
44	2004	Saturday, Jul 10	CIN	43,558
45	2008	Saturday, Jul 12	CIN	43,556
46	2008	Sunday, Jun 22	BAL	43,517
47	2008	Saturday, Jul 26	HOU	43,489
48	2009	Sunday, Jul 26	ATL	43,471
49	2009	Saturday, Jul 11	LAD	43,466
50	2006	Saturday, May 20	MIN	43,422
51	2010	Saturday, Apr 24	CHC	43,410
52	2001	Saturday, Jun 2	CHC	43,400
53	2006	Sunday, Jun 18	CLE	43,391
54	2009	Sunday, Jun 28	SFG	43,391
55	2008	Thursday, Jul 10	COL	43,389
56	2008	Saturday, May 10	STL	43,382
57	2008	Saturday, Aug 23	PIT	43,293
58	2011	Saturday, Aug 13	PIT	43,214
59	2008	Friday, Aug 8	WSN	43,209
60	2007	Saturday, Jul 21	SFG	43,180
61	2007	Sunday, Jun 3	FLA	43,172
62	2007	Friday, Jul 20	SFG	43,121
63	2011	Saturday, Jul 9	CIN	43,119
64	2007	Saturday, Aug 18	CIN	43,087
65	2010	Saturday, May 15	PHI	43,069
66	2001	Saturday, Jun 16	KCR	43,060
67	2011	Sunday, May 29	SFG	43,035
68	2009	Monday, May 25	STL	43,032
69	2002	Friday, Apr 5	ARI	43,005
70	2006	Saturday, Jul 29	CIN	43,000

[Glennron]

Clearly an EXTREME long shot, but the Brewers could technically tie for the best home record in the Modern Era. They'd just have to win their remaining 15 home games http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif. But really though, I still think the last series or two will sell really well. It will be a lot of people's last chances to see the team as playoff tickets will be hard to come by, plus it would be cool to say you saw the Brewers 60th home win, should that be a possibility.

 

5

2008

Thursday, Jul 31

CHC

45,346

IIRC, that was game 4 of the 4 game sweep by the Cubs that year. Leaving the stadium that day was one of my least favorite days ever.

[dadofandrew]

The entire top ten is home openers and Cubs' games. Tells you where the demand is. I would guess the top 20 is those plus all fan giveaways.

[a3uge]

I don't understand that top one. I clearly remember going to opening day against the Dodgers in '07 when Sheets went off. Bill Hall hit a home run. I also remember them announcing the crowd as the largest in the history of the the stadium. They lied to us?

[Dragonbait]

It seems they said 'largest crowd for a home opener' as that's been surpassed each year after for home openers.

[carniesandrubes]

3 million mark officially hit:

 

http://brewersbeat.mlblog...-hit-three-million-mark/

[owbc]

Thanks for the list, Casey.

 

I noticed it doesn't include the postseason, as the NLDS games against the Phillies would rank #37 and #39 on that list.

 

Oct 4, 2008: 43,992

Oct 5, 2008: 43,934

 

I'm guessing they sold less tickets because of room needed for media personnel.

[dadofandrew]

I think they have to give 2K or so to MLB. About 5K for WS.

[bucks2281]

Based on the lines I've seen at Miller Park's ticket window (I waited 35 minutes in line yesterday afternoon), and from what I've overheard while in line, I think 14 of the final 15 games will be sellouts. The lone exception (and it'll be close) will be Thursday.