Class A Standings and Attendance (updated through June 28)

Here's a look at the 2016 standings for both Class A leagues. I took the overall standings and noted the leaders for both halves. This is in contrast to most official MiLB websites which list only the early Second Half numbers with the First Half champion noted, and also different from websites like Baseball Reference which don't make any note of the half winners.

Midwest League
Eastern Division
Team	Affiliate	W	L	PCT	GB
South Bend Cubs*	CHC	46	29	0.613	--
Lake County Captains	CLE	43	33	0.566	3.5
West Michigan Whitecaps	DET	40	33	0.548	5
Lansing Lugnuts**	TOR	41	35	0.539	5.5
Fort Wayne TinCaps	SDP	40	36	0.526	6.5
Bowling Green Hot Rods	TBR	39	36	0.52	7
Great Lakes Loons	LAD	32	44	0.421	14.5
Dayton Dragons	CIN	22	54	0.289	24.5
Western Division
Team	Affiliate	W	L	PCT	GB
Clinton LumberKings**	SEA	45	31	0.592	--
Peoria Chiefs*	STL	42	34	0.553	3
Cedar Rapids Kernels	MIN	40	35	0.533	4.5
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers	MIL	37	39	0.487	8
Beloit Snappers	OAK	35	40	0.467	9.5
Kane County Cougars	ARI	35	41	0.461	10
Burlington Bees	LAA	34	42	0.447	11
Quad Cities River Bandits	HOU	33	42	0.44	11.5
South Atlantic League
Northern Division
Team	Affiliate	W	L	PCT	GB
Hagerstown Suns*	WSN	47	29	0.618	--
Delmarva Shorebirds	BAL	43	31	0.581	3
Greensboro Grasshoppers**	MIA	42	33	0.56	4.5
Hickory Crawdads	TEX	40	36	0.526	7
West Virginia Power	PIT	38	37	0.507	8.5
Lakewood BlueClaws	PHI	33	42	0.44	13.5
Kannapolis Intimidators	CHW	28	48	0.368	19
Southern Division
Team	Affiliate	W	L	PCT	GB
Charleston RiverDogs*	NYY	43	31	0.581	--
Greenville Drive	BOS	40	34	0.541	3
Augusta GreenJackets**	SFG	41	35	0.539	3
Asheville Tourists	COL	37	38	0.493	6.5
Columbia Fireflies	NYM	37	39	0.487	7
Rome Braves	ATL	31	44	0.413	12.5
Lexington Legends	KCR	26	49	0.347	17.5
*=First Half Winner
**=Leads Second Half

So unfortunately, while it's still early in the second half it doesn't look like the Fireflies will make the playoffs. :-( So let's now look at the attendance figures, where the Fireflies are treading in the high middle of the pack. I decided to include Twitter followers of each team that I looked up a few weeks ago (so they are slightly out of date), which I initially intended to be used in a Sunday feature but decided to include in the attendance totals instead.

Team	Followers	Twitter Rank	Attendance	Attendance Rank	Difference
Dayton	9503	15	8235	1	14
Fort Wayne	27934	2	5646	2	0
Greensboro	6795	25	5108	3	22
Lakewood	17069	5	4937	4	1
Kane County	11847	10	4903	5	5
Greenville	22707	4	4832	6	-2
South Bend	24819	3	4528	7	-4
West Michigan	16537	6	4460	8	-2
Charleston	28262	1	4340	9	-8
Lansing	9940	13	4220	10	3
Columbia	8269	20	3840	11	9
Lexington	8205	21	3744	12	9
Peoria	12894	8	3250	13	-5
Delmarva	12542	9	3162	14	-5
Wisconsin	13122	7	3130	15	-8
Quad Cities	9404	16	3100	16	0
Bowling Green	8626	19	2674	17	2
Augusta	6312	26	2655	18	8
Rome	11585	12	2573	19	-7
Asheville	9309	17	2524	20	-3
Lake County	9922	14	2419	21	-7
Great Lakes	8185	22	2300	22	0
West Virginia	11842	11	2228	23	-12
Cedar Rapids	8934	18	2222	24	-6
Hickory	7455	23	2159	25	-2
Clinton	5723	28	1689	26	2
Kannapolis	6954	24	1560	27	-3
Hagerstown	6058	27	1065	28	-1
Burlington	4586	29	857	29	0
Beloit	4546	30	795	30	0

As you can see, there is a strong correlation between followers and fans at the games. There are exceptions to this, including the Fireflies which are 11th in attendance but 20th in Twitter followers. This is largely due to the newness of the team. I would like to see better marketing, which needs to emphasize the importance of the team to the overall community. But given that even the dead Sand Gnats account (which got revived in a Twitter feud between the Fireflies and the RiverDogs) has more followers than the Fireflies. So we still have a ways to go, but we're respectable in reaching the community. As much as I don't like the RiverDogs, they are the best at marketing themselves to the community and thus lead in Twitter followers (possibly because some Yankee fans follow their affiliates as well, although I'm not sure how many Yankee fans care about MiLB). Another Charleston in West Virginia is best at getting Twitter followers (11th in Class A) despite low fan turnout (23rd in Class A). That is largely because the Power are perhaps the most important sports team to the biggest city in West Virginia, and might get better turnout at games if not for bad weather (the recent floods being an extreme example of that). On the flip side, Greensboro has the 3rd best attendance in Class A but the sixth worst in getting Twitter followers. If I had to guess, it's because while the Grasshoppers get good support from Greensboro they don't get support from neighboring communities who mostly have their own teams at least at the summer collegiate level. With both attendance and Twitter followers, the top half of the Midwest League is better than nearly everybody in the SAL while the bottom half of the SAL gets better support than the bottom half of the Midwest League.