Its encouraging to see the Sixers still getting good crowds despite a pretty horrible season. Would like to know what they are averaging compared to last season?

Also good news that GC is growing their crowd and that the Wollongong community are getting behind their team. 46% is a massive increase in average crowd.

Not surprised figures for Cairns weren't given, but the absence of figures from Perth and NZ is a worry. Any reason why the article doesn't cover them?

Perth are often selling out, but NZ and Cairns would've been omitted to avoid discussing poor figures.

I'd say there might be questions over accuracy of the data (carrying on from how the league used to report Spirit and Slingers figures) and counting method (tickets sold vs bums on seats), but if those same questions existed in past seasons then a comparison is still useful.

interesting. Ausstadiums shows better numbers per game and they show an increase per game, but mainly because figures from Melbourne and New Zealand are included.

http://linky.com.au/swfo9

Good to see crowd numbers are up despuite where you get your figures from!

Are the Ausstadiums figures more accurate perhaps?

I would prefer to trust ausstadiums - no spin there! My understanding is that the venues themselves submit their crowd numbers to austadiums so suspect it is more valid. AND i suspect if NZ and Melbourne were included then crowd averages would have dropped - melbourne have had a terrible year crowd wise.

NZ have been down this year, not surprisingly, Cairns and Perth have been about the same as previous years.

The one problem with Ausstadiums is they dont get figures for all games. Their figures for New Zealand this year are from one game. Still a good resource though, if not perfect, and they have the NBL on trac for their best full season creowds since Ausstadiums started tracking them.

Out of interest, Melbourne's crowds are well up on last year, which was a poor year for them.

A better resource than the NBL, where the GM walks on the floor at half time....looks around the crowd....goes to the stats bench .... pulls a number out of his/her arse... and then submits it to the league!!!

At least, from what I know the Austadiums numbers are independently submitted by the venues themselves. And sorry all, i thought Tigers numbers were not there, probaly because early in the season they were not - looks like they have all been updated.

Around 10 years ago, I think this is how the 36ers used to do it (look around the crowd and guess).

10 years ago they could have counted the empty seats quite quickly I would think

No way there was more then 6,000 at the last 36ers game. Big time number padding I believe.

Paul, well up(only a few hundred) on a stadium that sits only 3500, is an utter disgrace for what is the biggest market in the country. The NBL should have never allowed the tigers to play in that shameful stadium.

I believe that the 36ers have been told which reporting method to use by the NBL (e.g., tickets sold vs actual attendees).

Not sure if the last game would've been a strict 6,991, but they did have a lot of above-concourse sales as a result of the double-header. Whatever the real figure was, it was a healthy crowd and easily top 2-3 for the season and in the league.

Does anyone have updated numbers on the best AWAY team for pulling crowds - i remember a while ago there was a thread stating the Crocs were trhe worst...

Here you go:

1. Melbourne 3,822
2. New Zealand 3,801
3. Townsville 3,710
4. Perth 3,649
5. Wollongong 3,628
6. Gold Coast 3,581
7. Cairns 3,562
8. Adelaide 3,253

I don't have a crowd figure for these four games:

Round 01 - 25/09/2009 GCB-TSV & 26/09/2009 CNS-ADL
Round 19 - 03/02/2010 CNS-PER & 04/02/2010 NZB-WOL

Someone help!

With only 260 people between 1st and 7th there isnt really a trend for oppo teams drawing crowds, and that is consistent with a lack of awareness of the wider league that exists at the moment.

Those stats also have the league average at 3625, which will go up over the playoffs and be at the high end of figures for the past decade, which is a promising sign for what it is worth.