Comments on: In four games, Chicago fans clearly louder than Philly fans

By: Comparing Vancouver noise levels in Stanley Cup finals to Chicago and Philadelphia in 2010 | ProHockeyTalk

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:31:02 +0000

[...] year, we followed the competing noise levels between Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers fans during the 2010 Stanley Cup finals. NHL.com [...]

By: Alyssa Hickman

Alyssa Hickman — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:50:26 +0000

Decibels don’t quite work like that, more like a logarithmic scale. Let’s say that a “sone” (an unit I just made up) actually is how much sound there is in 0 dB. 10 dB has 10 sones, 20 dB has 100 sones, and so on, so forth. Basically, you put a place between the tens and the units in the decibel ratings.
Using that logic, Philadelphia fans put out 6.37 x 10^11 sones for all 20,304 fans (because of the 10^11.8 sones) and each fan makes 3.11 x 10^7 sones in average, so the real decibels made by each and every Flyers fan is more like 74.9 dB.
In this case, Chicago fans put out 1.58 x 10^12 sones for all 22,275 fans and each fan makes 7.11 x 10^7 sones in average. End result, the dB made by Chicago fans are 78.5 dB. (The Chicago fans are thus twice as loud as the Piladelphia fans)
One last thing: I heard reports that the Flyers’ game 3 in the Bell Center vs. the Montreal Canadiens (Eastern Conference Final) even went up to 133 dB, which is more than 10 times as loud as United Center during game 2 in the Stanley Cup Final even though they were “only” 21,273 to scream like that. Unless that’s another of the Habs’ games but it would still have to be a Habs home game. If the 133 dB reading was indeed confirmed, then the average noise made by a Habs fan during game 3 of the ECF (when Cammalleri scored the first goal of the game) would be 89.7 dB, good for 9.37 x 10^8 sones each. Conclusion: Habs fan can be as many as 13 times as loud as Hawks fans.

By: Alyssa Hickman

Alyssa Hickman — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:49:22 +0000

By: clight

clight — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:06:18 +0000

.0058 dB per Philly fan in game 4 (118 db / 20,304 fans) vs. .0055 dB per Chicago fan in game 2 (122 dB / 22,275).
hey chicago…shhhhh

By: alex

alex — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:58:55 +0000

THIS GOES W/O SAYING. I only hope and pray that the blackhawks aren’t going the way of the cubbies….choke, choke, choke…….wait ’til next year, blah, blah, blah.