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For the past hour or so, I’ve been fooling around with a new graphing program for the MAC, OmniGraphSketcher. Very cool.

After watching the last couple of innings of the Detroit 10-1 blow out of the Indians, I thought I’d test it out on some baseball statistics.

My question: Just how bad are the Indians as a business model? So, to answer my question, I downloaded Major League Baseball attendance and salary figures from ESPN and CBS Sports. I threw them into OmniGraphSketcher and came up with the following conclusions.

The Indians are among ten of the lowest attendance businesses, as they attract less than 25,000 per game.

Although their payroll is below the MLB average, it’s above other poor drawing teams like Baltimore, Kansas City, Toronto and Florida. Only Pittsburgh and Oakland pay more and draw fewer fans, so the Indians have a fairly bad model.

Surprises: Oakland is the least productive team in MLB; the White Sox, in a race with Detroit, are pulling far fewer fans; and San Francisco appears to be a real money maker with relatively low salaries and relatively high attendance.

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