The Scoop

Justin A. Cohn of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette used attendance figures from local sports teams to find that the numbers “are a loosely based gauge of how many tickets are distributed, not how many people pass through the gates and not necessarily how many tickets were purchased. Whether those tickets were used is inconsequential in teams’ calculations. In some cases, executives guess at how many tickets were distributed. In all cases, the number of people at games, known as turnstile counts, isn’t volunteered.” The average announced attendance at Wizards’ baseball games was 4,032, but the average turnstile count was 2,406.