Looking at B1G Baseball Stadiums.
Their seating capacity and 2016 attendance numbers.
-> Illinois <-
Illinois Field
1,500 permanent seating / 3,000 grass seating
4,500 capacity
5,214 largest crowd ever 5/8/09
Addimission to all Illinois regular season baseball games were FREE in 2016
2,239 largest crowd in 2016
~23,837 fans attended 20 Illini Home Baseball games
1,192 fans / game in 2016.
-> Indiana <-
Bart Kaufman Field - opened in 2012
2,500 seating capacity with picnic and general admission areas
2,918 largest crowd in 2016
~45,134 fans attended 23 Hoosier Home games
1,962 fans / game in 2016
-> Iowa <-
Duane Banks Field
3,000 seat stadium
2,297 largest crowd in 2016
~16,392 fans attended 22 Hawkeye Home games
745 fans / game in 2016
-> Maryland <-
Bob 'Turtle' Smith Stadium
2,500 seating capacity
all seats are general admission
685 largest crowd in 2016
~10,337 fans attended 24 Terrapin Home games in 2016
431 fans / game
-> Michigan <-
Ray Fisher Stadium
2,500 seats of which 1,700 have backs
1st ten rows stadium-wide are general admission seating
Rows 11-20 are reserved seating
2,500 largest crowd in 2016
Not all attendance numbers found (entire Minnesota series)...
18 of 21 Wolverine 2016 Home games were attended by ~16,060 fans
945 fans / game
-> Michigan St. <-
McLane Baseball Stadium
2,100 bench seating capacity
400 chair back seats
Admission to 2016 Spartan Baseball was FREE for all Monday-Thursday games
1,397 largest crowd in 2016
~14,529 fans attended 19 Spartan Home games
765 fans / game in 2016
-> Minnesota <-
Seibert Field opened in 2012
902 bench seating capacity
494 chair back seating
3 berm seating areas
1,701 largest crowd in 2016
~13,502 fans attended 19 Gopher Home games
711 fans / game in 2016
-> Nebraska <-
Hawks Field
4,419 chair back seating
4,000 berm seating capacity
Some 2016 Box Scores showed 2 attendance numbers....
- Attendance (tickets sold)
- Actual Attendance (not available for all Box Scores)
7,016 largest crowd in 2016 (5,558 Actual Attendance)
2,050 smallest 'available' Actual Attendance crowd (4,797 Tickets Sold)
~131,553 Tickets Sold for 26 Husker Home games in 2016
5,059 Tickets Sold / game
final Actual Attendance numbers N/A
-> Northwestern <-
Miller Park
600 stadium chairbacks
1,215 largest crowd in 2016
~7,962 fans attended 18 Wildcats Home games
442 fans /game
-> Ohio St <-
Swisher Field
500 lower level box seats
2,550 upper grandstand level seating
bleacher seating
4,450 capacity
2,297 largest crowd in 2016
~26,872 fans attended 27 Buckeye Home games
995 fans / game in 2016
-> Penn St <-
Medlar Field
5,406 capacity with 20 luxury suites
2,185 largest crowd in 2016
~20,019 fans attended 20 Nittany Lions Home games
1,001 fans / game in 2016
-> Purdue <-
Alexander Field 2013 inaugural season
6 sections of chairbacks seats
metal bench sytle seating with backs
1,500 seating capacity
1,265 largest crowd in 2016
~18,320 fans attended 20 Boilermaker Home games
916 fans / game in 2016
-> Rutgers <-
Bainton Field 2007
1,500 seating
559 largest crowd in 2016
~4,786 fans attended Scarlett Knights Home games
228 fans / game
Looking at attendance numbers from televised 2016 BTN games...
- Illinois Home attendance quadrupled after an early BTN home game and grew from there.
- Indiana hosted 2 BTN games. Both were Sunday games. Both games filled seating capacities.
- Iowa did not find any listed BTN Home game (a lot to BTNplus)
- Maryland was supposed to host Ohio St. on BTN on a Friday but weather moved the game. Home attendance rose for most of the remainder of the season.
- Michigan hosted 2 BTN Home games. The first game reflected their season average. The other was a well attended rivalry game.
- Michigan St hosted 3 BTN games. The first one was double their average attendance. The other two were mid week games, in the middle of the afternoons, which were understandably attended under season average numbers.
- Minnesota hosted 1 early season BTN conference game. Gophers attendance numbers grew from there.
- Nebraska hosted 2 BTN games. The first was a Tuesday night rivalry game highly attended. The other being the final regular season conference game, highest attended 2016 B1G regular season game.
- Northwestern hosted 1 BTN game. Top 4 attended Wildcat game in 2016.
- Ohio St hosted 1 BTN game. Attended well above their season average.
- Penn St hosted 1 BTN game. 2nd highest attended Nittany Loin game in 2016.
- Purdue hosted 1 early BTN game against Top 10 Louisville. Boilermakers hung tough for most the game until the Cardinals broke loose.
- Rutgers did not find any listed BTN Home games.
There's a lot of things you can do with these numbers.
But the main reason I did all this...
Is to Thank all the B1G Baseball fans out there.
And to make everyone else notice...
We got something building here.
There is some crazy B1G Baseball fan bases out there.
B1G averages 861 baseball fans / game (without Nebraska)
1,184 fans / game at full conference strength
B1G
Their seating capacity and 2016 attendance numbers.
-> Illinois <-
Illinois Field
1,500 permanent seating / 3,000 grass seating
4,500 capacity
5,214 largest crowd ever 5/8/09
Addimission to all Illinois regular season baseball games were FREE in 2016
2,239 largest crowd in 2016
~23,837 fans attended 20 Illini Home Baseball games
1,192 fans / game in 2016.
-> Indiana <-
Bart Kaufman Field - opened in 2012
2,500 seating capacity with picnic and general admission areas
2,918 largest crowd in 2016
~45,134 fans attended 23 Hoosier Home games
1,962 fans / game in 2016
-> Iowa <-
Duane Banks Field
3,000 seat stadium
2,297 largest crowd in 2016
~16,392 fans attended 22 Hawkeye Home games
745 fans / game in 2016
-> Maryland <-
Bob 'Turtle' Smith Stadium
2,500 seating capacity
all seats are general admission
685 largest crowd in 2016
~10,337 fans attended 24 Terrapin Home games in 2016
431 fans / game
-> Michigan <-
Ray Fisher Stadium
2,500 seats of which 1,700 have backs
1st ten rows stadium-wide are general admission seating
Rows 11-20 are reserved seating
2,500 largest crowd in 2016
Not all attendance numbers found (entire Minnesota series)...
18 of 21 Wolverine 2016 Home games were attended by ~16,060 fans
945 fans / game
-> Michigan St. <-
McLane Baseball Stadium
2,100 bench seating capacity
400 chair back seats
Admission to 2016 Spartan Baseball was FREE for all Monday-Thursday games
1,397 largest crowd in 2016
~14,529 fans attended 19 Spartan Home games
765 fans / game in 2016
-> Minnesota <-
Seibert Field opened in 2012
902 bench seating capacity
494 chair back seating
3 berm seating areas
1,701 largest crowd in 2016
~13,502 fans attended 19 Gopher Home games
711 fans / game in 2016
-> Nebraska <-
Hawks Field
4,419 chair back seating
4,000 berm seating capacity
Some 2016 Box Scores showed 2 attendance numbers....
- Attendance (tickets sold)
- Actual Attendance (not available for all Box Scores)
7,016 largest crowd in 2016 (5,558 Actual Attendance)
2,050 smallest 'available' Actual Attendance crowd (4,797 Tickets Sold)
~131,553 Tickets Sold for 26 Husker Home games in 2016
5,059 Tickets Sold / game
final Actual Attendance numbers N/A
-> Northwestern <-
Miller Park
600 stadium chairbacks
1,215 largest crowd in 2016
~7,962 fans attended 18 Wildcats Home games
442 fans /game
-> Ohio St <-
Swisher Field
500 lower level box seats
2,550 upper grandstand level seating
bleacher seating
4,450 capacity
2,297 largest crowd in 2016
~26,872 fans attended 27 Buckeye Home games
995 fans / game in 2016
-> Penn St <-
Medlar Field
5,406 capacity with 20 luxury suites
2,185 largest crowd in 2016
~20,019 fans attended 20 Nittany Lions Home games
1,001 fans / game in 2016
-> Purdue <-
Alexander Field 2013 inaugural season
6 sections of chairbacks seats
metal bench sytle seating with backs
1,500 seating capacity
1,265 largest crowd in 2016
~18,320 fans attended 20 Boilermaker Home games
916 fans / game in 2016
-> Rutgers <-
Bainton Field 2007
1,500 seating
559 largest crowd in 2016
~4,786 fans attended Scarlett Knights Home games
228 fans / game
Looking at attendance numbers from televised 2016 BTN games...
- Illinois Home attendance quadrupled after an early BTN home game and grew from there.
- Indiana hosted 2 BTN games. Both were Sunday games. Both games filled seating capacities.
- Iowa did not find any listed BTN Home game (a lot to BTNplus)
- Maryland was supposed to host Ohio St. on BTN on a Friday but weather moved the game. Home attendance rose for most of the remainder of the season.
- Michigan hosted 2 BTN Home games. The first game reflected their season average. The other was a well attended rivalry game.
- Michigan St hosted 3 BTN games. The first one was double their average attendance. The other two were mid week games, in the middle of the afternoons, which were understandably attended under season average numbers.
- Minnesota hosted 1 early season BTN conference game. Gophers attendance numbers grew from there.
- Nebraska hosted 2 BTN games. The first was a Tuesday night rivalry game highly attended. The other being the final regular season conference game, highest attended 2016 B1G regular season game.
- Northwestern hosted 1 BTN game. Top 4 attended Wildcat game in 2016.
- Ohio St hosted 1 BTN game. Attended well above their season average.
- Penn St hosted 1 BTN game. 2nd highest attended Nittany Loin game in 2016.
- Purdue hosted 1 early BTN game against Top 10 Louisville. Boilermakers hung tough for most the game until the Cardinals broke loose.
- Rutgers did not find any listed BTN Home games.
There's a lot of things you can do with these numbers.
But the main reason I did all this...
Is to Thank all the B1G Baseball fans out there.
And to make everyone else notice...
We got something building here.
There is some crazy B1G Baseball fan bases out there.
B1G averages 861 baseball fans / game (without Nebraska)
1,184 fans / game at full conference strength
B1G
