Ballpark Savvy

The "Precise Seating" (www.preciseseating.com) website is operated by some seriously dedicated and unselfish fellow baseball fans. They have clearly spent countless hours figuring this entire joint out. The purpose of Precise Seating is to provide vital information about as many seats in Fenway Park as possible--currently their number is up to 36,000.

While you are ordering tickets from the Sox's website or through another source like Ace Tickets (several are linked to the site), you can pull up Precise Seating, enter the section, row and seat number of your potential ticket and Precise Seating will provide for you:

- The exact location of the seat
- The portion of the field that will be obstructed from your view
- What percentage of the field you will be missing
- Whether there is a "walkway advisory" warning of people traffic in front of the seat
- Whether it is sheltered from the rain
- How many feet from home plate the seat is
- A 3D view of the field from the seat
- A general rating of the seat on a 1-10 scale

And it works, too. I put in Grandstand Section 18, Row 5, and Seat 6. Precise Seating gave this seat a 6 rating. It informed me that the pitcher's mound and 15% of the field is obstructed, that I can see all of the bases, that I'm sheltered from the rain, and that I will be 149 feet from home plate. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to see pitcher's mound, I would probably opt for another seat if I could. Without Precise Seating, I probably would have jumped at this seat.