re: Best Baseball fans

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LSU
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I heard on TV we were better. McCann said so.

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The "best" Baseball Fans, or any other sport for that matter, should be viewed as a ratio (attendance to population) to gauge fan support. Obviously, there are many other factors involved but without spending too much time analyzing it here a look at the numbers between LSU and Arkansas and I suspect a few other SEC teams would fare equally as well.

The population surrounding Baton Rouge is more than three times what it is in NWA. If you look at game attendance as a ratio to potential attendees (within reasonable driving distance), the numbers really illustrate which program has a better fan following.

Population
Baton Rouge / New Orleans Estimated Population: 1.4 million.
NWA Estimated Population: 400,000.

2010 Average Attendance
LSU: 10,655
Arkansas: 7,704

Ratio
LSU: 1 to every 131 people
Arkansas: 1 to every 52 people

If Baum Stadium had the same population base to draw from as LSU does then the Hogs would average 26,923 per game or about 2.52 times what the Tigers do using the same game attendance to population ratio. Wow. That’s a huge difference and clearly illustrates Hog Fan fervor.