Another metric - No One Watching the Saints (Teams that pulled the most and fewest viewers in 2024) (15 Viewers)

[slaym]

I am sure ticket prices will be increased.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

I am sure ticket prices will be increased.

Based upon what?

 

[Brennan77]

More would watch and care if it seemed like they were building towards something, rather than digging deeper in a hole with no hope in sight. We had to endure a lame duck coach, overpaid veterans, bad fit QB and poorly conditioned team all year. That's inexcusable.

Exactly. We have been the worst kind of bad team. Boring.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Exactly. We have been the worst kind of bad team. Boring.

And yet, more people watched the Saints than the Falcons or Broncos, the latter of which was a winning team with an exciting rookie quarterback.

 

[BBarnes]

Loomis and Gayle are doing big things!!

If we would have kept on blowing teams out the building from week 3 on. Then we would likely be 1 or 2 in the league in viewership. Fans watch teams that are exciting and that win. Neither of those have been the Saints for a while.

 

[3ParStillDriver]

Expected.

Dennis Allen resulted in something similar during his tenure as head coach of the Raiders. Absolutely zero reason to have expected anything much different.

People simply don't want to watch a bad coach, coach a bad game and slowly but surely create a bad team.

 

[watts]

It does make sense. The Saints draw from Louisville, Misssissippi to parts of Bama and Pensacola. That gives you about 7-10 million potential viewers.
Then you have your visiting team adding onto the average.

“Over the course of 10 wild and woolly national TV dates, Campbell’s charges scared up 22.6 million viewers per game, edging the perennial ratings champs in Dallas by some 175,000 impressions.”

The article you posted suggested - using the Lions as an example- that this data is based on “National TV Dates” (the lions had 10 according to the article) and viewers per game. Nothing to do with local TV.

That being said, the Saints were unwatchable this year even for me. The organization is definitely not “must see” TV. I’m more interested in how folks can extrapolate conclusions based on poorly defined data. I see it in business all the time and I think it’s interesting when it shows up in the wild

 

[WilliamBrees]

Wait the gap between the Saints and the team hosting the NFCCG (Iggles) is less than the gap between the Saints and the Pats or the Saints and Dennis Allen/Derek Carr's old team, the Raiders?

 

[WilliamBrees]

Wait the gap between the Saints and the team hosting the NFCCG (Iggles) is less than the gap between the Saints and the Pats or the Saints and Dennis Allen/Derek Carr's old team, the Raiders?

Oh I see now. Looking a numbers.

 

[No2DC]

Does Mick understand that they share the TV revenue evenly regardless of which teams get the most viewers?

IDK and I don't think he cares.

 

[0rion]

We becoming your daddy's saints again

 

[DCTransplant]

Determined solely by success and TV market size.....

Giants are top 10 despite being terrible.
Smallest TV markets are well represented in the bottom 10
Also teams playing in more nationally televised games have a big advantage obviously

 

[IceHot]

Losing is not good for business, and Mick doesn't understand that concept. There is no time to give a coach three years to prove themselves; Dennis Allen should have been fired in 2023.

I watched one game all year...has little to do with the Allen or the record....

More to do with the NFL, their contracts with content distribution, and my commitments as a Soccer Coach.

Not sure how many Saints fans have declined in viewership because of how the NFL has treated us...but I would imagine it is a rather larger number.

 

[Saint Jack]

Determined solely by success and TV market size.....

Giants are top 10 despite being terrible.
Smallest TV markets are well represented in the bottom 10
Also teams playing in more nationally televised games have a big advantage obviously

It’s not totally by that metric.
The Saints are the smallest market next to Buffalo and GB.
The Saints are able to draw about 15 million per game because they have no competition with any pro team across multiple states.
You even see in the full rankings, the difference between 11th and the Saints is about or a little less than three million.

 

[IceHot]

If we would have kept on blowing teams out the building from week 3 on. Then we would likely be 1 or 2 in the league in viewership. Fans watch teams that are exciting and that win. Neither of those have been the Saints for a while.

Then why do they watch the Giants, the Bears, the 49ers, and the Cowgirls more than the average team.?....

Viewership has very little to do with record.