About 90 mins to go to the counting prediction deadline on this thread and two and half hours to kick off. 31 predictions in. The averages have not changed much.
Average for the Total Crowd: 6628
Average for Away Crowd: 712
The spread is quite narrow on this occasion - 6284 to 6821, often it is the thousands even for our own home games.
Yes that was announced during the game - felt like more packed in like sardines. Supporters standing in the gangways and my wife barely able to see. Not particularly well organised I’m afraid
Must have been a fairly miserable experience for anyone 5' or under yesterday. I was surprised at Cambridge Utd providing such a poor experience for family away fans as they make such a big thing of their own fan engagement successes. I thought it was quite shabby of them.
There must be other clubs with a sizeable away following who have had, or will have, a bad experience going to the Abbey this season - Orient, Charlton, Reading and Peterborough come to mind.
Does anyone know if the EFL has any say on how an away allocation has to be divided between seating and standing.
Now that is off my chest I will start on the attendance tables - we had a good crowd turnout and were pretty good on predicting the numbers too.
You are no doubt more knowledgeable than me @railwaysteve but I believe Cambridge more or less sell out their home seating allocation most games. Giving away supporters more seats would in that case mean less for home supporters especially young home supporters that they seem keen to attract as investments in the future. Given the choice, hard to argue fairly that they are wrong to prioritise their own.
They must have age restrictions on that terrace? I’m a short man and my calves were doing overtime bouncing up and down to see the action. There’s no way any child would be able to see anything and it’d be pretty dangerous with a big away following. I didn’t see too many under 12s so obviously discretion was applied by the majority.
Many congratulations to @PJS - Forecaster of the Week with a bold prediction of 6821, the greatest prediction on a day when everyone undereestimated the total crows. Top work.
All the top twenty were within two hundred, or close to it, which is unusually good and and remarkably goood seeing as everyone underestimated.
Top Twenty for the Top Turnout Away Crowd: [ Actual 865]
Many congratulations to @ryan_w_kirkby2 with an underestimate of just 10. Congratulations to @mwite, next closest, missing by just fifteen and the only other forecaster within 5% [43.25]. The vast majority made underestimates which is unsurprising as the actual numbers were quite close to capacity and there was no indication that it would be sold out.
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Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 6001]
Many congratulations to @Alexo; @mooneyman; @Manboobs and @Onlooker who have all tied at the top, all missing by just the single person in the home stands with calculated predictions of 6000.
They do seem to be able to attract similar stable numbers on a consistent basis and numbers which would for us would be good numbers. They can get people to watch them every week, I wish that there was something we could learn from them.
Averages - Collective Wisdom v Actual attendances:
We all underestimated the total crowd, but our collective average was remarkably close.
We nearly all underestimated our own away crowd,and in percentage terms our average prediction was much furtpher away.
We were much better at estimating the Cambridge home support, there were estimates on both sides of the actual figure and we collectively were quite close, although a fair few predictions were closer.
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6,800 (800 away)
6650 with 750 Wycombe
About 90 mins to go to the counting prediction deadline on this thread and two and half hours to kick off. 31 predictions in. The averages have not changed much.
Average for the Total Crowd: 6628
Average for Away Crowd: 712
The spread is quite narrow on this occasion - 6284 to 6821, often it is the thousands even for our own home games.
Kind reminders out there for
@BSE; @Commoner; @micra; @perfidious_albion; @wwfcblue; @James; @ShitcagoWWFC ; @BicesterB and @Ed_.
6,575 including 750 backing the green and white stripes.
6744 with 787 travellers
6444 with 682 Chairboys
Felt like a very good away turnout
BBC say 6866 for the total.
Did anyone catch the away crowd? I think they gave it but I could hear. My guess would be around 1,000
865 according to CUFC's twitter account
Yes that was announced during the game - felt like more packed in like sardines. Supporters standing in the gangways and my wife barely able to see. Not particularly well organised I’m afraid
That’s 50 odd tickets down of full capacity too.
Great turn out though
Must have been a fairly miserable experience for anyone 5' or under yesterday. I was surprised at Cambridge Utd providing such a poor experience for family away fans as they make such a big thing of their own fan engagement successes. I thought it was quite shabby of them.
There must be other clubs with a sizeable away following who have had, or will have, a bad experience going to the Abbey this season - Orient, Charlton, Reading and Peterborough come to mind.
Does anyone know if the EFL has any say on how an away allocation has to be divided between seating and standing.
Now that is off my chest I will start on the attendance tables - we had a good crowd turnout and were pretty good on predicting the numbers too.
You are no doubt more knowledgeable than me @railwaysteve but I believe Cambridge more or less sell out their home seating allocation most games. Giving away supporters more seats would in that case mean less for home supporters especially young home supporters that they seem keen to attract as investments in the future. Given the choice, hard to argue fairly that they are wrong to prioritise their own.
They must have age restrictions on that terrace? I’m a short man and my calves were doing overtime bouncing up and down to see the action. There’s no way any child would be able to see anything and it’d be pretty dangerous with a big away following. I didn’t see too many under 12s so obviously discretion was applied by the majority.
Top Twenty for the Total Crowd: [6866]
Many congratulations to @PJS - Forecaster of the Week with a bold prediction of 6821, the greatest prediction on a day when everyone undereestimated the total crows. Top work.
Congratulations to the four who tied for 2nd place with well rounded predictions of 6800 namely @williwycombe; @silverfox; @Onlooker and @mwite.
Congratulations to @MindlessDrugHoover ammd @ryan_w_kirkby2 who were the other two within one hundred.
All the top twenty were within two hundred, or close to it, which is unusually good and and remarkably goood seeing as everyone underestimated.
Top Twenty for the Top Turnout Away Crowd: [ Actual 865]
Many congratulations to @ryan_w_kirkby2 with an underestimate of just 10. Congratulations to @mwite, next closest, missing by just fifteen and the only other forecaster within 5% [43.25]. The vast majority made underestimates which is unsurprising as the actual numbers were quite close to capacity and there was no indication that it would be sold out.
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Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 6001]
Many congratulations to @Alexo; @mooneyman; @Manboobs and @Onlooker who have all tied at the top, all missing by just the single person in the home stands with calculated predictions of 6000.
Congratulations to the fifteen other fine forecasters who were within one hundred of the number of home fans, namely @perfidious_albion; @PJS; @Erroll_Sims; @Twizz; @mwite; @MFH_Blue; @ryan_w_kirkby2; @williwycombe; @Glenactico; @bookertease; @93Chairboy; @DevC and @robin.
They do seem to be able to attract similar stable numbers on a consistent basis and numbers which would for us would be good numbers. They can get people to watch them every week, I wish that there was something we could learn from them.
Averages - Collective Wisdom v Actual attendances:
We all underestimated the total crowd, but our collective average was remarkably close.
We nearly all underestimated our own away crowd,and in percentage terms our average prediction was much furtpher away.
We were much better at estimating the Cambridge home support, there were estimates on both sides of the actual figure and we collectively were quite close, although a fair few predictions were closer.