NRL 2018 First Half Year - Financials

[mozgrame]

WOW!!! Imagine how good it'd be going if there were smart people running the show!

I still hate Beattie for him forcing "super shires" on us, then shooting through. 😡

 

[NewwyEagle]

Ahhh..... when they're talking about average crowd 'per game' attendances in the NRL.... Yes you would need to divide by 8.

Can't see where the NRL counts attendances 'per event'?....

There were 8 games that weekend. Not 7. Hence the game average.

So by your logic, next year when they have all 8 games at Suncorp over the weekend... The total crowd for the weekend will be acceptable as an average?... Because it's one big event?....

Can't be. The total Suncorp crowd over that weekend should be divided by 8.

Attendance divided by games = AVG game attendance.

If you buy one ticket to get access to suncorp and there's 2 games on, that's one event. If we play 8 games in a row and get fifty thousand people there there does that mean there was only 6,250 at each game? That's ridiculous. It's not as if they're saying they'll count 50,000 people 8 times, they'd count it once. It makes no sense to divide a crowd in 2 because there's 2 games on during an event.

 

[pjayz]

Ahhh..... when they're talking about average crowd 'per game' attendances in the NRL.... Yes you would need to divide by 8.

Can't see where the NRL counts attendances 'per event'?....

There were 8 games that weekend. Not 7. Hence the game average.

So by your logic, next year when they have all 8 games at Suncorp over the weekend... The total crowd for the weekend will be acceptable as an average?... Because it's one big event?....

Can't be. The total Suncorp crowd over that weekend should be divided by 8.

Attendance divided by games = AVG game attendance.

The NRL is going off pure crowd numbers. The fact is that a crowd of 35,000 for a double header means that both games have had a crowd of 35,000 people at the ground which is why it is divided by 7 - this is correct if you want a pure crowd average per game.

You are basing your crowd average on ticket purchasing (i.e for a truer reflection of revenue per game) which is cool, it just isn’t a pure crowd average that the NRL is quoting. It is a way to smother revenue generated per game which is misleading but technically is a crowd average.

 

[pjayz]

If you're happy to accept the NRLs misleading spin go nuts.

Crowd numbers are used as a kpi of revenue. Probably why they mentioned it in their half yearly financials.... So yes, I'm treating it as a financial average of game crowd figures.

I find it completely laced with intoddgrity in yet another example of how to mislead the general public.

What's the point in saying the crowd averages are up if half of the crowd you are including in your figures don't exist because they went to a double header...misleading spin!

Don’t know why you are worked up, as I said in my post, it’s not ticketed based and is a smother for the true relationship between revenue and crowd attendance.

All I’m saying is that they are technically correct in dividing by 7 to get a true crowd average, it’s just not a true reflection of tickets sold.

 

[pjayz]

Not worked up...
Just can't understand why anyone would find a true crowd average relevant to anything.

This is a NRL financials thread. Crowd numbers should always be discussed in relevance to tickets sold. That's what makes the NRL money.

For the NRL to pat themselves on the back and say their crowd numbers are up, when infact the paying crowd numbers are probably down... That's spin.

That's all I was trying to put across...

Enjoy the game. Go Manly.

I totally agree with you. They have used a technical definition to make the health of the game seem better than what it is.

The fact is they need to see the relationship to tickets purchased, revenue generated and the membership base.

Todd is a politician, always has been, always will be. He has been the worst thing to happen to the game in the 37 years that I have been watching.