The college football system is quite phenomenal considering it is meant to be an amateur sport. They currently hold the top 10 average attendance for football games. Team————-League———-Country———-Code————Year——-HOME GAMES——-Average Michigan——-Big 10————- USA————College 1A—-17/18—————7———————110,737 ...

There is no doubting the popularity of SOO in the non Rugby League states, and the Perth attendance was fantastic and now holds, not by much, the Optus record. I think there are several reasons for it, including some great promotional work by the NRL and they are marketed as events more than a game ...

I think that contested possessions in the Australian Rules may have led to the perception of “fumble ball”. And there are far more player on player contests in Rules than league. It would be interesting to see how many average possessions there are in the average game for the 3 holding the ball code...

But if it impacts so much on the regular season, which imo, is what the game is really all about, is it a positive for the NRL overall. Its a bit like “don’t worry about the other 192 games a year we have 3 great games” And if, as it has been discussed, the NRL separates the “packages” for the next ...

Maybe watching the SOO on TV is wearing them out.

Average kick per game is running about 19 for the NRL with the majority not being in general play, as in kick off, penalties and conversions. Average in AFL is about 410, the large majority being in general play. Isn’t football about the ball and the foot, you know, kicking? Maybe one should be call...

The Dragons result is, well, dreadful. Must be good (or bad) reasons for such a crap attendance.

State of Origin The first 'state of origin' game was an Australian Rules Football game between Western Australia (WA) and Victoria, at Subiaco Oval in Perth on 8 October 1977. In 1989, a crowd of 91,960 saw Victoria beat South Australia at the MCG. This is the highest attendance for any SOO game of ...

Rnd 16 Cronulla will need a crowd of at least 15295 for the total of the 4 NRL Rnd 16 games to exceed the current average of the Rnd 16 AFL games, although the GWS and The North game in Tassie will bring that average down. No NRL game has exceeded the attendance of the Suns home game (16031) and Cro...

As at Rnd 16
As @ NRL Rnd 16
Code/Club———————Average————2018 average
NRL + Super Rugby——-16587
NRL———————————-18244—————15260
Super Rugby——————-12168
Parramatta———————21929———-—-11175
Wests——————————-12103—————17291

As at Rnd 16

Code/Club Average 2018 average
NRL + Super Rugby 16587
NRL 18244 15260
Super Rugby 12168
Parramatta 21929 11175
West’s 12103 17291

Tables are not working all that well, but I will try to figure a way around it

Rugby League developed in England, and Australian Rules developed in isolation, a long long way from the motherland, there is no surprise that League is more popular than Australian Rules there. There were a couple of very influential personalities involved in establishing Union and its later baby i...

Code/Club Average 2018 average NRL + Super Rugby 16854 NRL 19232 15260 Super Rugby 12168 Parramatta 21929 11175 West’s 11196 17291 I would think at the moment the NRL, Wests and the Eels would be reasonably happy with the initial crowds, however it is a bit early to tell and the trend is going down.

NRL round 15 total crowd 95,266 average 11,908
AFL round 15 total crowd 278,880 average 30,987

Highest attended NRL game was less the the lowest attended AFL game