Study on Effect of Professional Baseball Teams on the Attendance of J. League Clubs

Abstract

    In this research we aimed to find out the effect of professional baseball teams on the attendance of J. League clubs.
    We conducted a regression analysis of the dates of attendance. The dependent variable was the number of spectators per game. In the selection of independent variables, we added 2 baseball variables ( “Baseball game” and “Baseball team franchise” ) to the variables used in existing literature and extracting 16 independent variables.
     As a result of regression analysis we found that “Baseball game” had a negative effect on attendance of J. League clubs, and “Baseball team franchise” did not have an effect on it.