SCG crowds 1982-2014

[ugg]

1993 tickles my fancy, a very consistent low figure except for one outlier. I wonder what game that was?

[neilfws]

1993 tickles my fancy, a very consistent low figure except for one outlier. I wonder what game that was?

Highest SCG crowd that year was 13 057 vs Adelaide.

AFL Tables - South Melbourne/Sydney All Games - By Season - 1993

[Muffler]

Very nicely explained ugg. So the bottom of the box = 25% of games had that crowd or less; the middle line (median) = 50% of games; the top line 75% of games. It's better than simple averages (means), as it gives you an idea of the distribution (the mean assumes a particular kind of distribution which is not always the case).

Which is why the stats boffins invented standard deviation and skewness.

[KTigers]

Yes, 1993 was a great year for the club. I was so excited by our one win (against Melbourne, Richard Osborne kicked 10) I signed up
as a member for the 1994 season. Last year we went to the 20 year member recognition function and I was very surprised to see
about 200 people there. All obviously anticipating the arrival of Roos, Plugger and Stuey Maxfield in 1995. Heady times!

Highest SCG crowd that year was 13 057 vs Adelaide.

AFL Tables - South Melbourne/Sydney All Games - By Season - 1993

[penga]

Digging through the RWO archives, I found a thread about low SCG crowds from 2003 where penga asked:

do we need another draw card like plugger to get our numbers back???

Very informative there, neilfws..

[stellation]

1993 tickles my fancy, a very consistent low figure except for one outlier. I wonder what game that was?

Everyone loves a winner!

[MarshallG]

Be interesting to understand what is driving the interquartile range

[Meg]

Be interesting to understand what is driving the interquartile range

Now you're showing off!

[MarshallG]

Now you're showing off!

Have a look at the length of the actual red boxes, the middle 50%.

You'll see that sometimes they are really long meaning that there was a lot of variation in crowd sizes.

Sometimes the range is really narrow meaning that the crowd numbers were around the same each round. Probably just the diehards.

[Meg]

Have a look at the length of the actual red boxes, the middle 50%.

You'll see that sometimes they are really long meaning that there was a lot of variation in crowd sizes.

Sometimes the range is really narrow meaning that the crowd numbers were around the same each round. Probably just the diehards.

Thanks. Very interesting. In 1993 the diehards must have known each other by name!

Just to confirm, these cover SCG attendances only as the heading says? So does not include ANZ?

[neilfws]

Just to confirm, these cover SCG attendances only as the heading says? So does not include ANZ?

Correct. Happy to generate charts with ANZ too if you like! I figured SCG-only was "cleaner data" for the purposes of this post.

[Meg]

Correct. Happy to generate charts with ANZ too if you like! I figured SCG-only was "cleaner data" for the purposes of this post.

Would be interesting to have a second chart including ANZ to see time comparison of Swans total home match attendances (as data goes back to pre ANZ seasons).