manicmagpie
A slice of fried gold
We've now reached the end of the 2010s so I thought I'd put together some stats on the crowds from the decade and particularly look at how they stack up against the 2000-2009 decade.
First up the overall H & A figures:
An extra 4.3 million people attending H & A games is a substantial increase. However as shown there were an extra 186 games played due to the expansion to 18 teams. The average actually decreased in the last decade, although it has been trending up.
Year by year totals and averages:
The clear culprit for the decline in average attendance is the inclusion of GC and GWS. Here's how the figures compare when games involving these two teams are removed:
It's impossible to be 100% certain about hypothetical scenarios, but the figure of 36,942 is sufficiently enough ahead to reasonably state that with a full 1,760 matches excluding GC and GWS that the 2010s would have ended up with a significantly higher amount than the 2000s.
Another consequence of the expansion has been that the number of games between teams based in different states has increased and the number of derbies has dropped:
Solid increase in the derby average but offset by the drop in interstate matches. Without GWS & GC the average was 45,662 for derby games and 30,880 for interstate games.
First up the overall H & A figures:
An extra 4.3 million people attending H & A games is a substantial increase. However as shown there were an extra 186 games played due to the expansion to 18 teams. The average actually decreased in the last decade, although it has been trending up.
Year by year totals and averages:
The clear culprit for the decline in average attendance is the inclusion of GC and GWS. Here's how the figures compare when games involving these two teams are removed:
It's impossible to be 100% certain about hypothetical scenarios, but the figure of 36,942 is sufficiently enough ahead to reasonably state that with a full 1,760 matches excluding GC and GWS that the 2010s would have ended up with a significantly higher amount than the 2000s.
Another consequence of the expansion has been that the number of games between teams based in different states has increased and the number of derbies has dropped:
Solid increase in the derby average but offset by the drop in interstate matches. Without GWS & GC the average was 45,662 for derby games and 30,880 for interstate games.