Bjo187
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Actually the AFL have 11 matches more @ 207 than the NRL including SOO on 196!
It's actually only 3 games different when you add in state of origin by my calculations.
NRL 192 + 3 games = 292.5 hours of content
AFL 198 games = 495 hours of content
So the games played are basically the same but the hours of content is very different. Also the hours of content makes the AFL ratings look lower than reality imo, as ratings are done off average viewers, it also inflates the NRL ratings due to the shorter length of games.
Put it this way, if you had two sets of 100 people and allowed one group 1.5 hours to get lunch from a cafe, compared to another group of 100 people that were allowed 2.5 hours to get lunch from another cafe and you counted how many people on average were in each store during open times, the 1.5 hour stores average customers would be much higher. I hope that makes sense.
Even for me, if it's a neutral game of AFL I'll watch the first quarter, turn on something else to keep the mrs happy for an hour or so, then flick back picking the game back up in the third quarter or so to watch the back end.
Tv would understand this, that's why the large discrepancy in the money they are willing to pay for AFL, well that's one reason.
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