What the number represents is the percentage of people in the city and its surrounding area (based upon the city's 2000 MSA population) that were in attendance at each hockey game this year.
Here is the list (in order from most supportive to least supportive), along with the team's overall attendance rank this year in ( ):
1. Laredo (2) - 3.13%
2. San Angelo (17) - 2.26%
3. Colorado (4) - 2.10%
4. Lubbock (8) - 1.86%
5. Topeka (15) - 1.78%
6. Rio Grande Valley (5) - 1.54%
7. Bossier-Shreveport (3) - 1.43%
8. Odessa (14) - 1.37%
9. Amarillo (16) - 1.33%
10. Corpus Christi (10) - 1.09%
11. Oklahoma City (1) - 0.75%
12. Wichita (12) - 0.70%
13. New Mexico (9) - 0.62%
14. Tulsa (6) - 0.58%
15. Memphis (13) - 0.30%
16. Austin (11) - 0.29%
17. Fort Worth (7) - 0.27%
It looks to me, according to those numbers, that Topeka really has as many, if not more, hockey fans and people willing to support the team, per capita, than most other cities in the CHL. The problem, as I am beginning to see it, is that Topeka is just too small to support a minor league hockey team.
So it looks like Topeka does support the T'Rants, but T-town even needs to support them more if they want to keep them around. Really, if the team would get out more in Topeka and get in the newspaper once in a while for non-hockey stuff, I think the Tarantulas would get even more support from Topeka.
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