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Wondering if there were any bad weather/post season games played on nights other than Friday that should have also been eliminated when the two Friday games were eliminated. Want to keep the comparison fair.

All postseason games were removed in the 3rd table, so that includes every day of the week.

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I did not remove any bad weather dates, nor do I have weather data included in any of the tables. If the box score sheets had weather data, I could include it. If you feel inclined to find the weather data for each of those games, I'd be happy to add it in.

I'm going to start working on a football attendance report soon, but because of the NCAA's 15k average requirement every other year, the football attendance numbers UA reports are dubious.

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in the tables, you can see that the later games in the season start to experience a drop in attendance, regardless of how the program's doing. They don't report weather in the box score sheets, but it's obviously a strong factor.

I also think that when MAC play comes less people show up because they think it will be a blow out. More people would rather go to the non-confernece games played against powerhouses in other sports like all of the Big Ten schools we play.

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I also think that when MAC play comes less people show up because they think it will be a blow out. More people would rather go to the non-confernece games played against powerhouses in other sports like all of the Big Ten schools we play.

That's definitely true, but soccer isn't like football, we play OOC games throughout the season too.

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I also think that when MAC play comes less people show up because they think it will be a blow out. More people would rather go to the non-confernece games played against powerhouses in other sports like all of the Big Ten schools we play.

I can add the teams we played into the table. I don't think Penn State or Michigan is going to draw a crowd based on their name. Ranked teams are probably more significant.

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