westoelad wrote:No, that's way out,assuming that Wisden 2020 figures are official and accurate. Perhaps Dobell was quoting attendances for one particular day which would be quite credible if it was a chilly early season day.
No idea, but I am sceptical of any figure considering the absolute non-existence of any statistics to base it on. I dont know if you Durham members (I assume at least one of you lot are a member) ever read those AGM or end of year reports you get, but I get 400 pages of detailed documents that never ever give you CC match day attendances, while on the counter I get to know how many hot dogs were sold with or without mustard and what percentage of them were sold with a sprite for every limited overs game. Sussex dont even separate the match day revenues of CC games into an isolated revenue stream, so I wonder how anyone could come up with an estimate of attendances for each game considering the detail provided for everything else. I have to assume the numbers are so low, its not worth it.
If its true 3000 odd people are turning up over 4 days, would that be the case? And why would the end of year accounts pretty much say T20 accounts for all of the revenue if CC accounted for 40 percent of the match day turn out of it? It doesnt sound creditible to me, you are welcome to believe what you want.
Punters paying on the door is just added to match revenues across formats, so I have a suspicion that they may calculate attendances assuming all members have "bought" a ticket or will have attended automatically. I certainly know in the past when I have tried to look through other counties the same is reflected. The ECB and counties have zero public information released concerning attendances, I have never found any creditable stats on it having tried many, many times. I even asked the question in an AGM about CC attendances a couple of years ago and got no answer.