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Now that the season is complete, we have final attendance numbers and know the winner of this crucial attendance guessing contest from this thread back in April.
The winner:
elchicodelgado
Congratulations on your guess of 3,453,120 which was the closest to the actual attendance of 3,460,280. The prize was a front page post recognizing... enjoy it well. May you live forever in the Halls of Attendance Guessing. Here is a spreadsheet with everyone's guesses and difference from the actual result.
Attendance increased by 513,331 over 2011's figure of 2,946,949. The increases each year have been:
- 2012: 513,331 / 6,337 per game
- 2011: 441,778 / 5,454 per game
- 2010: 349,155 / 4,311 per game
The 2009 total attendance was 2,156,016, 1.3 million fans less than this year.