jamesinclair wrote:
Sports attendance is generally not that hard to predict, especially because most tickets are sold in advance. The question is not football vs soccer demand, its looking at specific games. Anybody could have told you that USA-Brazil would be a huge draw.
No, you are not understanding what I am saying/asking. I'm not asking about the demand for the game. That's obvious - tickets sold. I'm talking about demand for the MNCR RAIL SERVICE from Connecticut/NYS to Secaucus/Meadowlands. You claimed that this service should have been run, and that "demand is demand". But demand for the game is not the same as demand for the rail service. Demand for the rail service depends heavily on where people are coming from, as well as several other factors that conceivably differ between football fans and soccer fans.
In order to claim that the MNCR RAIL SERVICE should have been run, you have to know both how much demand there is for the service during football games and how much demand for the service there could be expected for soccer games. I don't think you know either of those things, so I don't think you were correct or justified in making the statement that the MNCR RAIL SERVICE should have been run for the soccer game.