{"57599":{"#nid":"57599","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Braves\u0027 new tool: A way to predict attendance","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMSNBC \u003C\/em\u003E- July. 2, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny fan who attends an Atlanta Braves game knows the attendance quiz that appears for each home game on the stadium\u0027s giant scoreboard.Team executives are playing the same game, but with a bit more sophistication and more at stake than entertainment. The result of several months\u0027 work, the Braves\u0027 \u0022Attendance Projection Module\u0022 has worked to within 3 percent and 5 percent accuracy this season, twice coming within 100 seats of predicting the actual attendance and once as close as 45.. . Schiller first approached a member of his sales staff, Ryan McFerrin, with the task of coming up with such a model last August. While juggling the project along with his other duties in the team\u0027s ticket sales department, McFerrin, an industrial design major who graduated from GEORGIA TECH in 2005, needed two months to complete the \u0022Attendance Projection Module.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25489092\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25489092\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-07-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}