By the numbers
The bandwagon is getting bigger.
Attendance at home games for the Milwaukee Brewers, who have the best record in baseball, is averaging 29,882 thus far this season, according to Baseball Reference.
But a Badger Institute linear trend analysis of the per-game attendance this year shows an upward trend. If it continues, the average attendance figure could hit 33,391 — a record for AmFam Field.
The average per-game attendance record for the Brewers was set in the 2011 season at 37,918 guests per home game in Miller Park for a total attendance of 3,071,373 that year, data from Baseball Reference show.
The Brewers’ attendance at the American Family Field, the ballpark’s new name since 2021, hasn’t recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since then, the highest average attendance was 31,498 guests per game in 2023.
Wyatt Eichholz is the Policy and Legislative Associate of the Badger Institute.
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