Thanks. I didn't know much about the Super 14 competition. After googling and reading about it I found that it has a round-robin format with 91 regular season games. But according to the link you gave me the average attendance is for 94 games, which makes me think it includes playoff/championship game. Do you have the figure for just the regular season games?
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The teams which compete in these tournaments also compete in the domestic competitions in their home countries.
So it's like the Champions league of soccer? If I add it to the list I would also have to add the Champions league, Club World Championship and other international competitions to it.
Something interesting would be number of attendees per dollars spent.
Then it gets a lot more complicated. Many other factors like the size of the country, population, entertainment options (competitions), number of games, amount of marketing dollars spent, amount of media coverage, revenues, income etc. would also have to be counted. I think I'd like to keep my job.
Thanks. I didn't know much about the Super 14 competition. After googling and reading about it I found that it has a round-robin format with 91 regular season games. But according to the link you gave me the average attendance is for 94 games, which makes me think it includes playoff/championship game. Do you have the figure for just the regular season games?
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So it's like the Champions league of soccer? If I add it to the list I would also have to add the Champions league, Club World Championship and other international competitions to it.
It is not a champions league. Unless there is expansion, the same teams play every year. Its not a tournament with group stages, it uses a fully fledged home and away season. Its merely an additional competition, the premier competition, really. And the Australian teams in the Super 14 do not compete in a domestic competition of their own.
And there are only 3 finals games. The attendances are on Wikipedia.
A total of 94 games were played as part of the Super 14 2007. The average attendance for these games was 23825 people, while the total attendance was 953014.
If the total attendance is 953,014 then the average attendance comes out to 10,138 per game (if divided by 94) or 10,472 (divided by 91). So Either their average or total number is wrong.
Thanks. I didn't know much about the Super 14 competition. After googling and reading about it I found that it has a round-robin format with 91 regular season games. But according to the link you gave me the average attendance is for 94 games, which makes me think it includes playoff/championship game. Do you have the figure for just the regular season games?
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So it's like the Champions league of soccer? If I add it to the list I would also have to add the Champions league, Club World Championship and other international competitions to it.
The teams from super 14 dont play in a domestic competition it is a completely different side. While there is an Auckland Blues and an Auckland domestic competition side it isnt made up of the same players. Using New Zealand as an example we have 5 super 14 franchises which are made up using players from all of New Zealand so say with Auckland
Domestic competition
Auckland
Northland
North Harbour
are all seperate but on super 14 level players from the three of those domestic regions play in the Blues franchise. There is the odd exception where somebody who plays for say Wellington domestically plays for Auckland in the super 14 but in general each super 14 franchise draws players from its allocated areas.
The average can't be 10,000 because the smallest crowd of the season was 10,000.
Judging by many of the numbers available it seems 23,825 is much closer to being accurate than the total number (or an average of around 10,000). Taking out the championship game with 54,000 in attendance and the semifinals it's pretty safe to assume the average figure for the regular season was somewhere between 22,000 and 23,000. The league is added to the list.
NASCAR??, i believe both would be ahead of the NFL.
According to a CNNSI article, NASCAR averages 150k per race, F1 Allegedly 120k.
Obviously, you can see none of the individual sports are on the list. The figures are for team sports and leagues only (the way sports attendance charts are usually presented). NASCAR and F1, from my little understanding, are very different from team sports leagues where you have games take place in many different cities/venues at the same time, with hundreds of games per season and only two of the opponents competing at a time.
By the way, how many NASCAR or F1 games are held every year? Is it anywhere close to 91 (held by Super 14 rugby, probably the lowest on the chart)?
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