Prediction What’s your Fixture Combination to set a rounds highest attendance record?

[kranger]

As the title asks, and it might be a very obvious answer, but what fixture for a single round needs to be put together to set the highest aggregate attendance and highest average attendance per game for a single AFL round?

So this would be:
• Who plays who?
• At what venue?
• At what time, on what day?

I would presume every team would play in their home state, with the larger of the two teams being the home team. Making each of the non-Victorian teams pretty simple, besides from figuring out when they play.

But how would all of the time slots work and how do all of the Victorian teams come together?

The current round with the highest aggregate attendance is R1 2017 with 400,401.

The current round with the highest average attendance per game is R22 1998 with 45,997.

So what would it take to beat those?

 

[RonnieRaven]

Rd 1 (Local times)
thurs night: tigers vs blues (mcg)
Fri night: pies vs bombers (mcg)
Sat 1:10pm: hawks vs cats (mcg)
Sat 4:40pm: lions vs suns (Gabba)
Sat 6:30pm: crows vs power (AO)
Sat 7:10pm: eagles vs dockers (OS)
Sun 1:10pm: swans vs giants (scg)
Sun 1:10pm: dogs vs saints ( MS)
Sun 2:30pm: dees vs Roos (mcg)

 

[owen87]

Rd 1 (Local times)
thurs night: tigers vs blues (mcg)
Fri night: pies vs bombers (mcg)
Sat 1:10pm: hawks vs cats (mcg)
Sat 4:40pm: lions vs suns (Gabba)
Sat 6:30pm: crows vs power (AO)
Sat 7:10pm: eagles vs dockers (OS)
Sun 1:10pm: swans vs giants (scg)
Sun 1:10pm: dogs vs saints ( MS)
Sun 2:30pm: dees vs Roos (mcg)

Do Freo / West Coast fill Optus for normal home games or only Derby's?

Might be better to send smaller drawing VIC teams to play them separately Fri / Sat type thing. Dogs v Saints and Dees v Roos stand out as likely lower drawing fixtures, but the rest should pretty easy either fill the smaller stadium or get over 50k

 

[RonnieRaven]

Do Freo / West Coast fill Optus for normal home games or only Derby's?

Might be better to send smaller drawing VIC teams to play them separately Fri / Sat type thing. Dogs v Saints and Dees v Roos stand out as likely lower drawing fixtures, but the rest should pretty easy either fill the smaller stadium or get over 50k

Little difference send eagles to Melb might gain 10,000 on that game lose 10 in Perth
Send freo to Melb lose 5000
Eagles game might lose 5,000
have put the lowest attendance games at the end just gambling that all blockbusters are packed to the rafters

 

[Underarm]

Rd 1 (Local times)
thurs night: tigers vs blues (mcg)
Fri night: pies vs bombers (mcg)
Sat 1:10pm: hawks vs cats (mcg)
Sat 4:40pm: lions vs suns (Gabba)
Sat 6:30pm: crows vs power (AO)
Sat 7:10pm: eagles vs dockers (OS)
Sun 1:10pm: swans vs giants (scg)
Sun 1:10pm: dogs vs saints ( MS)
Sun 2:30pm: dees vs Roos (mcg)

Dees/Collingwood and Kangaroos/Essendon might be be better overall.

 

[Senor M]

This would be my prediction using 2019 attendance figures

Thurs 7:50pm- MCG - Collingwood Vs Essendon (92, 241)
Fri 7:50pm- MCG - Hawthorn Vs Geelong (66,347)
Sat 1:45pm- MCG- Melbourne Vs Carlton (55,593)
Sat 4:40pm- Adelaide Oval- Adelaide Vs Gold Coast (40,847)
Sat 7:25pm- Optus Stadium- West Coast Vs GWS (54,985)
Sat 7:25pm- SCG - Sydney Vs St Kilda (33,722)
Sun 1:10pm - Adelaide Oval- Port Adelaide Vs North Melbourne (36,099)
Sun 3:20pm- MCG- Richmond Vs Brisbane (76,995)
Sun 4:40pm- Optus Stadium- Fremantle Vs Western Bulldogs (43,732)

=532,561 total, 59,173 average.

Yes-- I know it's unrealistic as I've used both WA/SA teams at home & I've used a few 'event' games to boost the figures (Anzac Day games, R23 crowd numbers, etc.)

 

[manicmagpie]

Do Freo / West Coast fill Optus for normal home games or only Derby's?

Might be better to send smaller drawing VIC teams to play them separately Fri / Sat type thing. Dogs v Saints and Dees v Roos stand out as likely lower drawing fixtures, but the rest should pretty easy either fill the smaller stadium or get over 50k

Little difference send eagles to Melb might gain 10,000 on that game lose 10 in Perth
Send freo to Melb lose 5000
Eagles game might lose 5,000
have put the lowest attendance games at the end just gambling that all blockbusters are packed to the rafters

Probably works better if WC host GWS (average at Perth Stadium 53K) and Freo host GC (no average at Perth Stadium, the only game there was a 'home' game for GC that got 33k). Then you play Sydney/Brisbane at the SCG and don't lose too much.

The only nod to fantasy (apart from 2 games in WA) is that this is both Round 1 and Easter, which does actually happen every so often.

Ten year averages at venue for each matchup:

Thu
Carl v Rich (MCG) (76k) *Rd 1 average only

Fri
Coll v Ess (MCG) (77k)

Sat
Adel v Port (AO) (50k)
Syd v Bris (SCG) (25k)
Melb v Nth (MCG) (29k)
WC v GWS (PS) (53k)

Sun
WB v StK (Dock) (33k)
Freo v GC (PS) (33k) *'Away' game for Freo/GC at PS average. Home game likely quite higher.

Mon
Haw v Geel (MCG) (72k) *Easter average only

Adds up to 448k just on averages.

 

[manicmagpie]

Here's a list of the 10 year averages for every team v every other team. It's not venue specific, though.

 

[Millsie69]

Rd 1 (Local times)
thurs night: tigers vs blues (mcg)
Fri night: pies vs bombers (mcg)
Sat 1:10pm: hawks vs cats (mcg)
Sat 4:40pm: lions vs suns (Gabba)
Sat 6:30pm: crows vs power (AO)
Sat 7:10pm: eagles vs dockers (OS)
Sun 1:10pm: swans vs giants (scg)
Sun 1:10pm: dogs vs saints ( MS)
Sun 2:30pm: dees vs Roos (mcg)

On the money.

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[Crashy]

On the money.

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Would have it

Dogs v Roos
Demons v saints

For the final two