Toledo Is A Top 10 Minor League Market
Published on August 23, 2005 under International League (IL1)
Toledo Mud Hens News Release
The results are in and the Glass City is a Top 10 minor league market. When all of the numbers were tabulated, Toledo came out near the top of a recent list of the country's top minor league markets, according to Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal magazine.
Toledo's overall score was 50.50 with the following rankings in each category:
The rankings were formed with the following criteria in mind:
**Total attendance of teams indexed against total five-year population of the market (40% of overall score)---Toledo ranked 59th out of 230.
**Overall percent of seats filled indexed against total five-year population (30% of overall score)---Toledo ranked 44th out of 230.
**Franchise tenure in the city (15% of overall score)---Toledo ranked 11th out of 230.
**Attendance indexed against the market's unemployment rate (7.5% of overall score)---Toledo ranked 13th out of 230.
**Five-year attendance change indexed against each market's total per capita income (7.5% of overall score)---Toledo ranked 16th out of 230.
The Top 10 Minor League Markets (overall score):
Rochester, NY (100.00)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA (61.72)
Hershey/Harrisburg, PA (59.58)
Providence/Pawtucket, RI (55.99)
San Bernardino County, CA (54.80)
Oklahoma City, OK (54.33)
Fort Wayne, IN (52.58)
Dayton, OH (52.27)
Toledo, OH (50.50)
Fresno, CA (49.11)
Toledo Mud Hens Vice President/General Manager Joseph Napoli said, "We are pleased to be ranked number nine out of 230. Our goal, however, is to continue to work our way up the list to number one."
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