Make that two out of four, London down by around forty percent, but on such low figures it won't have much affect overall.

not in numbers it won't, but in PERCENTAGES it will

London will concede more points this year than today's attendance.......it is a straight race for 13th between Wakey and Bradford!

As with all statistics, it depends who's doing the maths. Combine the crowds then work out the percentages = small effect. Work out the percentages then combine those = massive difference.

I am referring to the fact that you never gave the previous 5 years' attendances last season, but now you suddenly are in a desperate attempt to prove that this years crowds are not as good as they seem.

Spot a problem with those two sentences?

The London v Salford crowd included around 400 Salford fans. If we'd have taken our usual 150 there then the crowd would have been sub-1000. Really sad to London in such a state at present.

Decent ground and set up for anyone heading down this year though.

Where?

SL Round 2 attendances - comparison to same fixtures last year


Wakefield V Bradford in 2014 *THURSDAY NIGHT GAME* + *REDUCED CAPACITY*
Wakefield V Bradford in 2013 *LOWEST CROWD FOR THIS FIXTURE IN SL*
London V Salford in 2013 Total Attendance in SL Round 2

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Championship Round 2 attendances - comparison to same fixtures last year


Barrow V Leigh in 2014 Total Attendance in Championship Round 2 (excluding Rochdale v Dewsbury)

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[iTotal Attendance for comparable games in SL and Championship Round 2

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SL Attendances

Round 1 - 10.38% increase
Round 2 - 0.28% decrease

Total
[i2014 [/i- 120,157
[i2013 [/i- 113,434
% increase Championship Attendances

Round 1 - 39.67% increase
Round 2 - 11.41% decrease

Total
[i2014 [/i- 13,564
[i2013 [/i- 12,020
% increase = +12.85%

- Interesting to see Featherstone's marquee fixture scoring a crowd of (only) 2,583. I will assume this is the number of fans they will be expecting to draw if/when they make the Super League...

- London's crowd of a meagre 1,200 was (according to reports) supplemented by over 400 Salford fans. Quite a worry for the season ahead.

- It will be interesting to see whether or not Wakefield's crowds will pick up once the stadium returns to full capacity. Their first home game of the season saw an almost 50% (not 100% ) drop on the same fixture last year.

Are you sure the stats are being done right. If the crowd was 10,000 last year and this year it's 5,000, surely that's a 50% drop? A 100% drop would imply the crowd was zero in year 2.

A drop of 100% would be zero. By my reckoning the drop was 49.9%.

Yep, and London's only a forty percent drop.

Good attendance at Huddersfield though, perhaps it's finally sunk in they've got a decent team.