Can I have a 5 minute argument please?

Is that on the basis that 22.5k watched each of the Millenium games? That's a bit of a thicko approach.

After the group stages:

Number of tickets sold - 259099
Number of "events" - 20
Average = 12955

or the other approach, counting all the games and including the 45k at the double header twice.

Number of attendees - 304151
Number of games - 21
Average = 14483

Well so far 302344 have attended 23 events

That's pretty good going.

With 3 World cup events left to go. We could be looking at near 450,000 to attend all events.

Which will push the average at all events over the 17k figure.

(I've taken the attendance at the first warrington match as the lower figure as that is what the independent jurno's have published. But what is 1 thousand between friends)

[i...The pre-tournament target was 500,000, and although the end figure for sales was 458,463, World Cup organisers claim that the target was always taking into account individual games for the double-headers at Cardiff and Wembley, rather than the event as a whole. In that case, the final figure surpassed 550,000,... [/i www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... -world-cup

[i...The pre-tournament target was 500,000, and although the end figure for sales was 458,463, World Cup organisers claim that the target was always taking into account individual games for the double-headers at Cardiff and Wembley, rather than the event as a whole. In that case, the final figure surpassed 550,000,... [/i www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... -world-cup

We now have 3 different thread all about averages.
Can you all stick to this one and stop spoiling other threads.
Thanks in advance.

It was quite happily going to drop off the front page until you piped up

460/28= 16,428 up .03% and resulting in a healthy 10% increase in profits
570/28 = 20,357 up 25% and resulting in a disappointing 10% increase in profits

Which is it gonna be?

ah...the 167,000 extra fans who attended? Good stuff......because if they hadn't, those 10 extra games would have been a worry

Hold on...

I admit to not having read through all the pages of this enthralling argument so may have got something wrong.

Were your two choices either half the double headers or to count crowds twice?

I thought we would have gone for the more sensible 'count each double header as one event'. I really dont want to go into it but halving crowds or doubling them just seems silly. I await 'Well ignoring games is even worse' but ah well.

It's not doubling them. The attendance for Australia v Fiji was 65,000. The attendance for England v NZ was 65,000. 2 games. 2 attendances. It's the generally accepted way of working out crowds.
When I buy a season ticket to Leeds my attendance is counted at 13 games, not just 1.

Each double header is indeed one event. With 2 games.

Ask yourself this: How many people were in attendance for England vs New Zealand? How many people were in attendance for Aus vs Fiji? Each game had an attendance that counts for that game alone. You're not doubling the attendance, you're looking at the number of people that attended each individual game. Which is how crowds are measured across the known world.

It matters not that they were on the same day in the same venue: each game had an attendance.

The number of tickets purchased for each 'event' is clearly another matter.