the point is people paid double the price of a normal single group game at other venues so the attendance should be counted for each game....

It was a clever ploy for once by the organisers to boost the crowds for both games by combining them at the same venue....

If you've not noticed, the elements on the other threads about this have been moved into one new thread to stop it flooding the other threads.

That doesn't mean each game was half the value of the ticket, so no I don't agree.

Does anyone remember the days when this forum used to be full of people talking about a sport that they care passionately about, rather than a bunch of maths geeks arguing about the best methodology and Excel formulae for counting empty seats?

It is a strawman because you're attempting to make me say something I'm not in an effort to make you sound superior and have an easier argument to win.

I have not ignored the Wales/Italy game. I have merged it with the England/Australia game into one event because in effect that is what happened. I'm not pretending one wasn't there. When you're not comparing like-for-like, you have to pick the way which paints the most accurate picture of your data, otherwise it's meaningless.

Pretending that 90,000 watched both games is statistically incorrect. At the same time, pretending that 22,500 watched each game is also incorrect. Merge then together as one event (which it was) will give you the most accurate statistic.


I don't know why you'd say it's because I don't like the results. I'd love for it to be true! But I'd be hypocritical to scoff at rugby union doing it and then agree with it when league does it.

And yes, I can counteract that. Quite easily. It's impossible to say how many attended each game when they've got a ticket for one event. There were definitely not 45k in attendance at Wales vs Italy as many left after the England game. That is why it would be unfair to say 90,000 attended both games. Just like it would be unfair to say 120,000 attended 4 games of the Magic Weekend. There is no way to tell how many are at each game.

No one has said that as far as I can see, 45,000 people watched both games, which if you can't see the difference then theres no point having the debate.

Did they? Or did half of them go home after game one?

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What a shocking argument. Are you really comparing that to what I'm saying?

You're saying that I'm calling two games one game by using that analogy. I'm not and never have (again, another straw man). I've called them an event. So no, I wouldn't say "I have one chicken nugget", I'd say I have one box of chicken nuggets, one (box) being the quantity of items I bought, just like one ticket to one event was sold. Not two tickets to two games. That wasn't an option.

If there was a survey about the number of chicken nuggets eaten, I wouldn't expect to be included 6 times of I only ate one. Just like someone shouldn't be included twice in an attendance statistic if they only watched one game. There is no accurate way to tell who stayed for both games.

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