Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[Maximus]

Yeah there's something like that going on with the USA AFL search trends, because AFL out ranks Major League Soccer too which is incredibly unlikely. I would say you are on the money there with it being a mistaken search rather than a deliberate.

Further evidence to this is that both 'Rugby League' and 'Australian Rules Football' show negligible results.

It's hilarious watching you trying to explain google and trends when your complete misunderstanding of them saw you thinking that the Warriors are bigger in NZ than the All Blacks, and Inter Miami and Wrexham were in the 10 most popular teams in NZ.

 

[Wb1234]

Google trends is as accurate as those Roy Morgan research articles

Tv ratings are the only stat you can’t manipulate or offer freebies

Those stats are telling

 

[titoelcolombiano]

It's hilarious watching you trying to explain google and trends when your complete misunderstanding of them saw you thinking that the Warriors are bigger in NZ than the All Blacks, and Inter Miami and Wrexham were in the 10 most popular teams in NZ.

I'm open to your interpretation of this data. Please educate me

 

[Jamberoo]

It's because of the nice little sleight of hand by @Jamberoo there. Put in 'Rugby League' v AFL and all of a sudden RL is 85/15 up over AFL.

My comparison in Google Trends was simply National Rugby League v Australian Football League

 

[titoelcolombiano]

My comparison in Google Trends was simply National Rugby League v Australian Football League

Yes, how convenient

 

[Jamberoo]

interesting how these AFL expansion clubs have so many members, but crowds that are less than half the number and pitiful TV audience.

When a club like GWS claims it has 30k members but only 9k turn up to games regularly, something is not mathing.

AFL clubs all have a double to triple members to attendee ratio.

 

[Jamberoo]

Yes, how convenient

How is that convenient?

 

[titoelcolombiano]

How is that convenient?

Because your UK stats are massively skewed by your choice and I'm sure you knew that.

 

[Perth Red]

Google trends is as accurate as those Roy Morgan research articles

Tv ratings are the only stat you can’t manipulate or offer freebies

Those stats are telling

lol, sample size mean tv ratings are a lick of the finger in the wind

 

[Perth Red]

Because your UK stats are massively skewed by your choice and I'm sure you knew that.

Surely people in uk googling rugby league are doing so to view English rugby league news and results, not the nrl?

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Surely people in uk googling rugby league are doing so to view English rugby league news and results, not the nrl?

I would imagine quite a few more, yeah... Either that or googling Superleague

 

[Wb1234]

lol, sample size mean tv ratings are a lick of the finger in the wind

They are done by people with ph d in maths lol

 

[Perth Red]

They are done by people with ph d in maths lol

I’d love for one of those people with a phd to explain to me how when you have a sample size of one box per 5000 people a rating of 12k in a population of 2.5million is in any way valid or reliable lol

 

[The_Wookie]

Google trends is as accurate as those Roy Morgan research articles

Tv ratings are the only stat you can’t manipulate or offer freebies

Those stats are telling

TV ratings are also a survey. You realise this dont you?

 

[Wb1234]

TV ratings are also a survey. You realise this dont you?

Sure but as has been pointed out to you it depends on the search criteria and can easily be manipulated

 

[The_Wookie]

They point to Lions membership numbers but the memberships are handed out in cereal boxes. People who buy tickets to Lions games at the Gabba on Ticketmaster get counted as members.

NRL club revenue/member numbers indicate theres a good portion of the NRL clubs doiing similar

 

[The_Wookie]

Sure but as has been pointed out to you it depends on the search criteria and can easily be manipulated

Can be done with ratings too depending on where you are at in the reach/average argument, how matches are programmed and a range of other things that make them not as black and white as people would like to think.

 

[James Rick]

Google trends is as accurate as those Roy Morgan research articles

Tv ratings are the only stat you can’t manipulate or offer freebies

Those stats are telling

Lions and Suns game at the Gabba getting TV ratings of 33k viewers in QLD is telling especially with both teams being top 4 at the time they played each other.