Can MLB Teams Tweet Their Way to Higher Attendance?

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Burson-Marsteller Global Director of Analytics Amy Gershkoff takes a look at the correlation between the number of mentions of each MLB team on Twitter in the last month and the average attendance at home games. Read the full analysis on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-gershkoff/mlb-attendance-twitter_b_1504664.html

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*Thousand of TweetsAll data current as of May 8, 2012.

Standings data from MLB.comAverage Attendance data from espn.com

Teams with higher Twitter volume tend to have higher average home game attendance…

even if the team isn’t winning.

CAN MLB TEAMS TWEETtheir way to higher attendance?their way to higher attendance?

41,373908Twitter Mentions*

Average Home Game Attendance

37,586723

34,069473

28,737378

45,314361

37,306311

27,825291

42,873255

41,545191

41,212189

39,908186

30,681184

22,327165

21,933162

25,790156

33,575136

24,271134

19,911131

21,168104

33,25998

25,00295

22,70985

25,15470

35,62268

26,11265

31,92161

23,17152

14,66549

20,50040

20,83425

STANDINGSAmerican LeagueEastBaltimoreTampa BayTorontoNY YankeesBoston

CentralClevelandDetroitChi White SoxKansas CityMinnesota

WestTexasOaklandSeattleLA Angels

PCT0.6550.6550.5520.5360.429

0.6070.50.4330.3210.25

0.6550.5170.4520.433

National LeagueEastWashingtonAtlantaNY MetsMiamiPhiladelphia

CentralSt. LouisCincinnatiHoustonPittsburghChi CubsMilwaukee

WestLA DodgersSan FranciscoArizonaColoradoSan Diego

PCT0.6430.60.5520.5170.467

0.6210.5360.4480.4290.4140.414

0.6550.4830.4670.4290.333