(08-30-2018 11:05 AM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 10:09 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  I'm not at all an FSU defender, but I believe what their guy said. Drawing 57% of Doak's capacity would mean that they had 45,000 fans per game and from games I saw last year, that's simply not the case. They had lots of empty seats for sure but not 35,000 empties a game.

When I was at FSU, I was responsible for reporting attendance for all olympic sports. I was told to essentially guesstimate rather than count. If it was pretty obviously a handful, it wasn't a big deal, but I'm not going to stand there and count 600+ people.

And here's the thing. Everyone guesstimates to the high side. No one sees an approximate crowd of 1,000 and says, oh, I guess there are 300 people there. No. They will "guess" that there are 1,700 there.