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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Hmmm, I wonder how much that really is the case in real life. It's worth nothing the second half of the season is also the half of the year with better weather—who wants to attend a cold April game versus a game in warm August sunshine?. Also, in terms of total season attendance, most studies I have seen indicate the largest influence is the prior season's performance, with the current season's performance coming in second.
I tend to think OOTP is overstating the attendance impact of individual players.
There's also too the attendance patterns on the different days of the week, as well as day games versus night games, neither of which OOTP recreates at all.
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I did add a modifier for day of the week - you see spikes on weekends in the current version.
I did not find any data on day vs night. The flaw is that most teams don't actually schedule too many day games, and when they do, they tend to be on holidays, which draw very well.
I did do some research and most teams did have low attendance in April and May, hence you will see that in-game.