Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:14 am  

William Eve wrote:

Interesting you should say that. I was going to wait until the end of the regular season to provide a final regular season ladder by number of posts of those who find this SL attendance thread extremely irritating, tedious and distasteful to the image of the game. Yet they cannot prevent themselves from contributing sweet f.a. to it themselves, if only to emphasise they are extremely irritated and find it tedious and distasteful. Perhaps it's time for them to move on?

Congratulations on your current Top 4 placement, despite the fact you were never going to compete with the consistent week in week out commitment of the impressive Smokey for the LLS. His only genuine challenger was The Printer until a mid-season collapse saw him lose all motivation in his quest to discredit the weekly SL attendance figures this season.

A huge thanks to Speccy for his entertainment value. His outbursts were so amusing that he felt compelled to create his very own thread calling for several bans and the removal of moderators/admins!

Super-Irritated Ladder
Smokey TA - 174
JonB95 - 89
The Printer - 67
Wrencat1873 - 25
Hessle Roader - 24
Talent Spotter - 14
Farsley Steve - 14
Code13 - 13
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Him - 12
Wadski - 11
Seth - 9
Speccy - 7
GansonTheClown - 6
Maximus Decimus - 5 (relegated back to TotalRL.com forums)

you forgot to include yourself.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:17 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

you forgot to include yourself.

I'm not irritated by this thread.

Calm down... you've won the LLS

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:21 am  

William Eve wrote:

I'm not irritated by this thread.

Calm down... you've won the LLS

You’re lying. Spreadsheet attention whore is very irritated by his spreadsheet not proving his agenda.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:51 am  

William Eve wrote:

SL Round 26 attendances - comparison to same fixtures last year

Leeds V Catalan in 2013 = 15,576
Leeds V Catalan in 2012 = 13,282
% increase = +17.27%

St Helens V Warrington in 2013 = 14,715
St Helens V Warrington in 2012 = 15,728
% decrease = -6.44%

Wigan V Hull in 2013 = 12,417
Wigan V Hull in 2012 = 17,736
% decrease = -29.99%

Bradford V London in 2013 = 7,148
Bradford V London in 2012 = 10,132
% decrease = -29.45%

Castleford V Salford in 2013 = 6,817
Castleford V Salford in 2012 = 4,877
% increase = +39.78%

Huddersfield V Wakefield in 2013 = 8,757
Huddersfield V Wakefield in 2012 = 6,579
% increase = +33.11%

Widnes V Hull KR in 2013 = 5,713
Widnes V Hull KR in 2012 = 5,325
% increase = +7.29%

Total Attendance in SL Round 26 = 71,413 (Avg: 10,163)
Total Attendance same fixtures last year = 73,659 (Avg: 10,523)
% decrease = -3.42%

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4 out of 7 fixtures in Round 25 have shown an increase in attendance compared to the same SL fixtures last year. 3 out of 7 fixtures in Round 24 have shown a decrease in attendance compared to the same SL fixtures last year.

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Out of 175 fixtures played thus far in 2013 (not including magic weekend fixtures), 48 out of 175 have shown an increase in attendance compared to the corresponding SL fixtures last year. 127 out of 175 fixtures have shown a decrease in attendance compared to the corresponding SL fixtures last year.

Wasn't this game last year Wigan's 'Big one' game so you are never going to get the same attendance the year after especially a week after Wembley with an under 19 team

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:00 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Super-Irritated Ladder
Smokey TA - 174
JonB95 - 89
The Printer - 67
Wrencat1873 - 25
Hessle Roader - 24
Talent Spotter - 14
Farsley Steve - 14
Code13 - 13
--------------------------
Him - 12
Wadski - 11
Seth - 9
Speccy - 7
GansonTheClown - 6
Maximus Decimus - 5 (relegated back to TotalRL.com forums)

Damn, must try harder to get wound up by pointless threads... looking forward to next seasons attendance thread already!

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:33 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Super-Irritated Ladder
Smokey TA - 174
JonB95 - 89
The Printer - 67
Wrencat1873 - 25
Hessle Roader - 24
Talent Spotter - 14
Farsley Steve - 14
Code13 - 13
--------------------------
Him - 12
Wadski - 11
Seth - 9
Speccy - 7
GansonTheClown - 6
Maximus Decimus - 5 (relegated back to TotalRL.com forums)

Im going to have to go some to win it from 7th.....though i suppose my regular season mediocrity doesn't warrant any reward anyway.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:07 pm  

Brid B&W wrote:

Wasn't this game last year Wigan's 'Big one' game so you are never going to get the same attendance the year after especially a week after Wembley with an under 19 team

Are you suggesting I should exclude it from the attendance figures because it's not as "like-for-like" as you'd like it and therefore contributes to painting an unfavourable SL attendance picture in 2013 compared to last year?

Swings and roundabouts.

Catalan hosted Hull KR at Toulouse in Round 19 which provided an official agenda attendance of 14,898 compared to the more normal attendance of 7,337 in Perpignan in 2012. The consequence of that "Toulouse for SL agenda attendance" resulted in Round 19 fixtures being one of only two rounds all season to provide a higher aggregate attendance than the same fixtures between the same teams in 2012. Unsurprisingly, the other was the opening round of the brand new season.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:46 pm  

I'm bitterly disappointed at only managing 5th place in the Billy Eve Super Irritated League for 2013. Considering all the hours that Billy has spent on compiling this and the attendance table I really should take myself to task for not taking the same amount of time to climb higher up the ladder.

Just one question for Billy then its my off-season. With all the time you spend in maintaining your spreadsheets and giving us chapter and verse on the ills of the Super League, do you actually have time to attend any matches.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:48 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Interesting you should say that. I was going to wait until the end of the regular season to provide a final regular season ladder by number of posts of those who find this SL attendance thread extremely irritating, tedious and distasteful to the image of the game. Yet they cannot prevent themselves from contributing sweet f.a. to it themselves, if only to emphasise they are extremely irritated and find it tedious and distasteful. Perhaps it's time for them to move on?

Congratulations on your current Top 4 placement, despite the fact you were never going to compete with the consistent week in week out commitment of the impressive Smokey for the LLS. His only genuine challenger was The Printer until a mid-season collapse saw him lose all motivation in his quest to discredit the weekly SL attendance figures this season.

A huge thanks to Speccy for his entertainment value. His outbursts were so amusing that he felt compelled to create his very own thread calling for several bans and the removal of moderators/admins!

Super-Irritated Ladder
Smokey TA - 174
JonB95 - 89
The Printer - 67
Wrencat1873 - 25
Hessle Roader - 24
Talent Spotter - 14
Farsley Steve - 14
Code13 - 13
--------------------------
Him - 12
Wadski - 11
Seth - 9
Speccy - 7
GansonTheClown - 6
Maximus Decimus - 5 (relegated back to TotalRL.com forums)

So many differing views, opinions and stats all argued and counter argued and so much that many of us can't agree on.

But finally after 7 months, 26 Rounds and 158 pages, this thread and particularly that post above has proven 1 thing which we can all agree on to be accurate......

......William Eve is still a virgin.

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:25 pm  

Hessle Roader wrote:

Just one question for Billy then its my off-season. With all the time you spend in maintaining your spreadsheets and giving us chapter and verse on the ills of the Super League, do you actually have time to attend any matches.

Spreadsheets take no time at all once they've been set up. It's typing out the results on here which is far more time consuming.

Yes, I do have time to attend RL matches and I attend at least one a week. I don't attend Super League matches however and haven't done so since it was extended to 14 teams and a top 8 play-off system which dramatically lowered the intensity across all teams and rendered the regular seasons meaningless.

I'll also be attending a lot of the RLWC matches, in particular those involving the lesser-fancied sides where the fixtures will be populated by real fans of the game. Fiji V Ireland at Rochdale is top of my list. I attended the Semi Final Qualifier between the same two sides at the RLWC in 2008 in Robina. I'll be giving the England games as big a swerve as possible. Plastic team and plastic brand supported in the main by plastic SL fans.