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Has anyone done research seeing a correlation between population and attendance?
For example, the Atlanta metro area has about 3x the population Cleveland has. On top of that, I think the closest MLB team to Atlanta is Cincinnati. So any baseball fan within a few hours of Atlanta pretty much has the Brave or nothing.
It'd be great if we were the only MLB city close to Toledo, Youngston, Columbus, Dayton and Indy. Instead we have to fight with Pittsburgh, Cincy, Detroit and Chicago for those markets.
So I think a team in Atlanta has much easier time getting 30k people to come to a game as opposed to a team in Cleveland.
I can't post the image right now, but these links show fan maps, which has Atlanta as the team with the most counties. Cleveland's geographical influence is small:
https://seatgeek.com/tba/articles/where-do-mlb-fans-live-mapping-baseball-fandom-across-the-u-s/
https://www.caliper.com/featured-maps/maptitude-mlb-baseball-stadium-map.html