NPB: Attendance figures from the first week
by Gen on Apr.18, 2011 @ 2:55 pm, under NPB
I have compiled the following attendance figures from the first week of play.
| Date | Visitor | Home | Att | Venue |
| 4/12 Tues |
Yakult | Yomiuri | 11,561 | Ube |
| Chunichi | Yokohama | 14,736 | Yokohama | |
| Hiroshima | Hanshin | 45,643 | Koshien | |
| Seibu | Nippon Ham | 38,968 | Sapporo Dome | |
| Rakuten | Lotte | 22,525 | QVC Marine | |
| Softbank | Orix | 18,283 | Kyocera Dome | |
| Average | 25,286 | |||
| 4/13 Wed |
Yakult | Yomiuri | 14,600 | Kitakyushu |
| Chunichi | Yokohama | 10,626 | Yokohama | |
| Hiroshima | Hanshin | 39,430 | Koshien | |
| Seibu | Nippon Ham | 17,218 | Sapporo Dome | |
| Rakuten | Lotte | 9,733 | QVC Marine | |
| Softbank | Orix | 11,232 | Kyocera Dome | |
| Average | 17,140 | |||
| 4/14 Thurs |
Chunichi | Yokohama | 10,725 | Yokohama |
| Hiroshima | Hanshin | 37,330 | Koshien | |
| Rakuten | Lotte | 8,561 | QVC Marine | |
| Softbank | Orix | 10,236 | Kyocera Dome | |
| Average | 16,713 | |||
| 4/15 Fri |
Yomiuri | Hiroshima | 17,787 | Mazda Stadium |
| Yokohama | Yakult | 10,126 | Jingu | |
| Hanshin | Chunichi | 30,046 | Nagoya Dome | |
| Lotte | Nippon Ham | 24,891 | Sapporo Dome | |
| Orix | Rakuten | 15,562 | Koshien | |
| Seibu | Softbank | 25,170 | Yahoo Dome | |
| Average | 20,597 | |||
| 4/16 Sat |
Yomiuri | Hiroshima | 18,641 | Mazda Stadium |
| Yokohama | Yakult | 18,916 | Jingu | |
| Hanshin | Chunichi | 34,911 | Nagoya Dome | |
| Lotte | Nippon Ham | 28,264 | Sapporo Dome | |
| Orix | Rakuten | 21,498 | Koshien | |
| Seibu | Softbank | 31,184 | Yahoo Dome | |
| Average | 25,569 | |||
| 4/17 Sun |
Yomiuri | Hiroshima | 28,058 | Mazda Stadium |
| Yokohama | Yakult | 21,268 | Jingu | |
| Hanshin | Chunichi | 34,329 | Nagoya Dome | |
| Lotte | Nippon Ham | 37,863 | Sapporo Dome | |
| Orix | Rakuten | 26,569 | Koshien | |
| Seibu | Softbank | 32,179 | Yahoo Dome | |
| Average | 30,044 | |||
| Total | 778,669 | |||
| Average | 22,902 |
And broken down a bit more, with comparisons to the 2010 and 2009 seasons.
| 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | ||||||
| G | Att | G | Att | +/- | G | Att | +/- | |
| Hanshin | 3 | 40,801 | 72 | 41,745 | -2.26% | 72 | 41,765 | -2.31% |
| Chunichi | 3 | 33,095 | 72 | 30,460 | 8.65% | 72 | 31,922 | 3.68% |
| Softbank | 3 | 29,511 | 72 | 30,062 | -1.83% | 72 | 31,194 | -5.40% |
| Nippon Ham | 5 | 29,441 | 72 | 27,027 | 8.93% | 72 | 27,669 | 6.40% |
| Hiroshima | 3 | 21,495 | 72 | 22,224 | -3.28% | 72 | 26,015 | -17.37% |
| Rakuten | 3 | 21,210 | 72 | 15,856 | 33.76% | 72 | 16,711 | 26.92% |
| Yakult | 3 | 16,770 | 72 | 18,513 | -9.42% | 72 | 18,505 | -9.38% |
| Lotte | 3 | 13,606 | 72 | 21,474 | -36.64% | 72 | 20,350 | -33.14% |
| Orix | 3 | 13,250 | 72 | 20,049 | -33.91% | 72 | 17,860 | -25.81% |
| Yomiuri | 2 | 13,081 | 72 | 41,203 | -68.25% | 72 | 40,755 | -67.90% |
| Yokohama | 3 | 12,029 | 72 | 16,800 | -28.40% | 72 | 17,319 | -30.54% |
| Averages | 22,902 | 25,626 | -10.63% | 25,925 | -11.66% | |||
So attendance has taken something of a big hit, but there are a few things to take into consideration, like the Yomiuri Giants playing two home games at a "neutral" park (as in, not Tokyo Dome); the Rakuten Eagles playing 3 home games at Koshien Stadium; the Nippon Ham Fighters play 5 home games while the Seibu Lions played 5 road games; and it still being just the first week of the season.
It'll be interesting to see how these numbers shift over the course of the season.
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