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Big 4 League Attendance 🏒🏀🏈⚾

Data on attendance figures Big 4 US sports leagues from 2001-2019 (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL).

All data scraped from ESPN. See 2018 for NHL NBA MLB NFL.

See attendance_scraper.r for scraping code.

Data

Attendance figures can be found in the data/ folder, there’s an excel doc for each league. Also of note, each excel contains a matrix that is comprised of a dataframe for each year i.e., it’s all horizontally stacked (due to some stupid openxlsx error). Because of this, there’s a header row for each year (on top of a master header row). It ain’t the cleanest.

• Season: year of season (Ex: 2000-2001)
• Rank: rank by attendance
• Team_Name: usually the city of the team
• For Home, Road and Overall
  • GMS: num games
  • TOTAL: total attendance num
  • AVG: average attendance per game
  • PCT: percent compacity

Also, data/champions_per_year.xlsx contains league champions from 2001-2019