2018 AFL Crowds & Ratings thread

[Underarm]

The problem isn't getting MCC members to the game, it's getting them to sit in the worst seats in the ground. Those should be the ones they sell in the presale.

 

[Rob]

I know last nights crowd was somewhat disappointing, but I feel there wouldn’t of been more than 500 or 600 seats at the top of the MCC. Even if they were full, a crowd of over 97,000 would’ve been hard to see happening.

So where were the missing people if not the MCC? Hard to imagine more than a hundred people would have bought tickets and not shown up.

 

[NoobPie]

Last nights fra ratings were 1.49m plus 545k on fox. Over 2million all up

Apparently this is the second highest ever on fox....what makes this remarkable is it was on the same time as an nrl prelim

 

[mxett]

 

[Rabman]

TV Ratings Richmond V Collingwood:

Melbourne FTA: 684,000
Perth FTA: 177,000
Adelaide FTA: 171,000
Sydney FTA: 62,000
Brisbane FTA 59,000

Regional: 336,000

Fox Footy: 545,000

Total: 2,034,000

 

[TigerTime_89]

TV Ratings Richmond V Collingwood:

Melbourne FTA: 684,000
Perth FTA: 177,000
Adelaide FTA: 171,000
Sydney FTA: 62,000
Brisbane FTA 59,000

Regional: 336,000

Fox Footy: 545,000

Total: 2,034,000

Not bad considering the one sidedness of the game. Second biggest Prelim Fox ratings, behind last years Rich v GWS PF.

 

[manicmagpie]

According to an article on the AFL app the MCC acknowledged they were about 2500 under capacity in their area. Not good enough.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

MCC is so VFL

 

[McCrann]

Compiled from this page.
https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/summary.html

Highest Average Crowds (Post Finals) - Top 10

"Golden Period" - 2007-2010
1. 2010 - Average (38,423). Total of 7,146,738.
2. 2008 - Average (38,287). Total of 7,083,015.
3. 2007 - Average (38,108). Total of 7,049,945.
4. 2009 - Average (37,760). Total of 6,985,684.

"Gold Coast and surrounding the Golden Period" 2005-06 & 2011
5. 2005 - Average (36,561). Total of 6,763,852.
6. 2011 - Average (36,428). Total of 7,139,854.
7. 2006 - Average (36,412). Total of 6,736,234.

"Outliers and the new Golden Age" 1998 & 2017-18
8. 2018 - Average (36,377). Total so far of 7,493,532 - NEW ALL TIME SEASON RECORD ATTENDANCE (BEATING 2017)
9. 1998 - Average (36,172). Total of 6,691,897.
10. 2017 - Average (35,207). Total of 7,287,880.

1 Match to go (If Finals go according to favouritsm)
Richmond v Hawthorn @ MCG 91,446
Melbourne v Geelong @ MCG 91,767 (Total so far: 183,213)
Sydney v GWS Giants @ SCG 40,350 (Total so far: 223,563)
West Coast v Collingwood @ Optus 59,585 (Total so far: 283,148)
Hawthorn v Melbourne @ MCG 90,152 (Total so far: 373,300)
Collingwood v GWS Giants @ MCG 72,504 (Total so far: 445,504)
Richmond v Collingwood @ MCG 94,959 (Total so far: 540,463)
West Coast v Melbourne @ Optus 59,608 (Total so far: 600,071)
West Coast v Collingwood @ MCG 100K

99,931 required for 700K Finals Aggregate - Should happen - JUST

Potential Total Finals Crowds: 675K+ (Minimum required to overtake 2005 Crowd Averages) - Looks certain to do so.
Record Finals Crowds: 2010 with 650,924 - looks almost certain to be beaten barring a shocker.
Record Finals Crowds (9 Finals): 2009 with 615,283 (Average of 68,365).

Got to be almost certain to break the 2010 Total Finals Crowds Record.

To achieve an overall Season Crowd of 7.5 Million the Grand Final Crowd must be 6,468.
To beat 2006 Crowd Average the Grand Final Crowd must be 43,768.
To beat 2011 Crowd Average the Grand Final Crowd must be 47,029.
To beat 2005 Crowd Average the Grand Final Crowd must be 74,670.
To achieve a Finals Aggregate of over 700K the Grand Final Crowd must be 99,931.

Maximum Remaining Attendance: 100K.

In 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 Overall Season Crowds averaged above 37,000...... (Out of reach).

 

[Our Game]

TV Ratings Richmond V Collingwood:

Melbourne FTA: 684,000
Perth FTA: 177,000
Adelaide FTA: 171,000
Sydney FTA: 62,000
Brisbane FTA 59,000

Regional: 336,000

Fox Footy: 545,000

Total: 2,034,000

62,000 for Sydney is a good figure for non NSW teams.

 

[Our Game]

Not bad considering the one sidedness of the game. Second biggest Prelim Fox ratings, behind last years Rich v GWS PF.

I wonder how the NRL did?

 

[Ricardo]

Official crowd: 59,608 at Optus Stadium

Slightly higher than the Collingwood final (by 23 people)

Wonder if it'll ever reach 60k

 

[jatz14]

Official crowd: 59,608 at Optus Stadium

Slightly higher than the Collingwood final (by 23 people)

Wonder if it'll ever reach 60k

Would require basically everybody that has a seat turning up, so, No.

 

[Cmarsh]

One would expect the ratings from today's game to be lower due to it basically being over at half time.

 

[Cmarsh]

I wonder how the NRL did?

Don't think it matters since this is an AFL thread.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Would require basically everybody that has a seat turning up, so, No.

ie corporates who have to pay, but get 10 seats or 15 seats or 20 seats for their boxes and not everyone rocks up would make up most of that 400+ shortfall. Illness and accidents, maybe even a death or two would see some punters who have paid $150-$200 of their own hard earned not make it to the game and not give their ticket away to someone.

 

[kid_a]

Why can't they just explicitly advertise to the MCC members that their area will be reserved for them until the end of business on Friday. Then on match day any left over/non acquired seats become available to the general public, first in first served.

 

[Our Game]

The problem isn't getting MCC members to the game, it's getting them to sit in the worst seats in the ground. Those should be the ones they sell in the presale.

It will be interesting to see if the GF can break the 100,000 with WC playing. I doubt it.

 

[Our Game]

Why can't they just explicitly advertise to the MCC members that their area will be reserved for them until the end of business on Friday. Then on match day any left over/non acquired seats become available to the general public, first in first served.

Thats way too easy for a mob like the know all MCC!
That whole section should be taken off them and sold to anyone that wants them
They have way too many seats as it is.But I dont see the AFL having the balls to ask.

 

[kid_a]

Thats way too easy for a mob like the know all MCC!
That whole section should be taken off them and sold to anyone that wants them
They have way too many seats as it is.But I dont see the AFL having the balls to ask.

Hmm as I suspected, so essentially it's just beuracracy that stops logical steps from happening

 

[VFL13]

Victorian fans......complain about the mcc and ticketing and how the afl panders to money..... Yet get given an afl gf on their doorstep every year if deserved or not and defend it to their last breath. West coast fans will have to pay thousands to get to melbourne, who cares if a few thousand paid up mcc memebers dont turn up

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[NoobPie]

1.14m fta for yesterday’s game. Significantly lower than Friday despite not being head to head with the nrl. Amazing what a ten goal half time margin can knock off the viewing average

Might push 1.6m with stv

Edit: 432k stv so 1.576m all up

 

[Our Game]

Don't think it matters since this is an AFL thread.

Yes it does matter as they were on at the same time.
I bet the TV stations think its very important and they stump up half the income of the AFL so ratings do matter a lot!

 

[Our Game]

1.14m fta for yesterday’s game. Significantly lower than Friday despite not being head to head with the nrl. Amazing what a ten goal half time margin can knock off the viewing average

Might push 1.6m with stv

Edit: 432k stv so 1.576m all up

Very good for the Saturday afternoon ratings dead zone!