Recent reports claim that WNBA star Caitlin Clark has had a major impact on the league’s television ratings, more than doubling the league’s average weekend attendance.
According to the Outkick report, through the first weekend of June 2024, WNBA games featuring Clark averaged 1.099 million viewers, while games featuring her absent averaged just 414,000 viewers.
The average attendance for the 2023 WNBA season was 301,000, according to the report. Viewership per match.
Clarke’s most-watched WNBA game in 23 years came in mid-May 2024, averaging 2.13 million viewers on ESPN2. The Memorial Day game on May 28, 2001, between the Los Angeles Sparks and Houston Comets averaged 2.45 million viewers on NBC.
Clark’s games continue to see a rise in WNBA ratings, including a matchup against the Chicago Sky that featured body checking on an inbounds play that drew ratings well above the league average.
Athlon Sports According to ESPN, the game averaged 1.53 million viewers and peaked at 2.19 million, roughly 3.7 times its previously reported average audience.
“Clark alone is nearly three times as productive as any other player in the WNBA.”
Jimmy Traina, Sports Illustrated writer report Attendance figures for matches on the first weekend of June 2024 were shocking, with Clarke’s matches seeing double the attendance compared to other matches in the league.
The seven games that Clark did not play in that weekend averaged 7,009 attendance. The two games that Clark did play in averaged 17,335 attendance. The three games that Clark played alone were able to surpass the combined attendance of the other seven games.
Clark’s two games drew a combined attendance of 34,675, while the other seven games drew a combined attendance of 49,062.
This comes after fellow newcomer Angel Reese claimed that she too was happy to play the bad guy and was therefore responsible for the ratings spike.
“We’re not just watching women’s basketball for one person. It’s for me, too. I want people to realize that,” Reese asserted.
According to statistics from the entire timeline, Clark’s Indiana Fever Controlling the Attendees In almost every category for home and away games.
For home games, the Fever’s average attendance is about 5,000 more than their average of 16,571. Their home court attendance is also about 5,000 more than their lowest of the season. In fact, the Fever’s lowest home game attendance for the season is still higher than any other team’s average attendance.
In addition, the team has the highest home attendance in the league, with over 7,000 fans. However, the home attendance is not the highest in the league, because the home capacity is at its limit. Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
This is evident from the fact that they had the highest away attendances and their average away attendance exceeded the average home attendance of all other teams.
In response to Clark’s recent ratings spike, podcast host Clay Travis I got it. “Clark is nearly three times as good as any other player in the WNBA,” another fan wrote. listen“Was Angel Reese wrong?”
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