It’s a fairly obvious principle If you count tickets sold, you count tickets sold. We cant sell the tickets for the double header twice so there isn’t 180k tickets available for it. There are 90k tickets available for it. If we sell 90k tickets we sell 90k tickets If those 90k then attended the two matches included within that ticket they bought, 180k attended those two matches. If we didn’t do this then when we averaged out the attendances we would need to do one of the two things A) ignore a game entirely, or B) pretend that two games for which 90k bought tickets for, only 45k bought tickets for. Both would be clearly and demonstrably wrong.
We count season tickets in with walk-up tickets in club attendance stats, we count the Magic Weekend attendees for every match, the RFU count both attendances for double headers, as does the NRL, and I don’t remember either yourself or the spreadsheet attention whore bringing up this issue on the attendance thread when both yourself and the spreadsheet attention whore used exactly the same calculation. In fact, nobody argued that we should ignore 5 of the 7 Magic Weekend games, or pretend that only 10k watched the Rhinos or Wigan that weekend, nobody noticed there was an issue at all until your bottom got a little sqeaky that your predictions of doom maybe off the mark, and the spreadsheet attention whore realised that even the 20% safety blanket he built in to his bet with JB may not be enough.
BTW, if the draw pans out as per seeding, then the second Semi-final crowd will bare little resemblance to the reported figure for the first.......there'll be more people at London mainline stations catching trains home than will hang around to see Australia hammer Australia b
The bought tickets for it. Everything else is irrelevant. And as a plastic paddy in NZ I would have thought you would have stayed away from criticising peoples choice of nationality.
