Here's another pull from that Athletic article (hint: if you're at a major professional sporting event these days, you're a data point on a graph somewhere)

"At least in recent years, baseball fans have left stadiums “significantly earlier” than fans at other sporting events, said Rachel Goodger, chief revenue officer of CrowdIQ, a company that tracks fan movement at ballparks.

"“It’s just been such a focus in baseball,” Goodger said. “Unless there’s a blowout in the NFL, typically fans are staying until the end. Same thing with the NBA and NHL and MLS. Baseball is really one of those sports that the egress has been, I think, a pain point. … Obviously, the rule change is trying to keep fans in the ballpark for the entirety of the game.


"Using data from 2018-22 collected from six MLB partner teams, CrowdIQ found that more fans are in their seats about 45 minutes into the game than at any other point, at close to 95 percent. The percentage drops to around 90 at the two-hour mark, and then 80 at 2 hours, 30 minutes. It takes a sharp turn from there: a half hour later, about 60 percent of fans are in their seats."


Keep in mind they say elsewhere in the article they're working off ticket sales and then taking photos and running them through an AI every 10 to 15 minutes, so those numbers have nothing to do with capacity. So if you're the Marlins and you're losing like 5,000 people in the final 30/60 minutes of a game, just close the bars and send the staff home early.


I live in the home of the College World Series. Nobody's in the 8th inning thinking "y'know, I could go for one more overpriced Bud Light and some ice cream". You're watching the game or you're leaving to pay an appropriate, non-event space inflated price for that one more beer or snack.


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