Connie Lingers Licks up Some Figures on Attendances

In its attempts to keep its managers superbly informed by bringing them incisive and deeply researched statistical analysis, not to mention the opportunity to post the odd horny photo, T100 has recruited yet another hot, I mean brilliant mathematician, Miss Connie Lingers, to cast her beautiful mind, not to mention body, over pertinent numbers.

Connie has a Masters in batory as well as Maths which she earned at the Godown Onme Institute in Stockholm. In her first in depth probe for T100 she has been looking into attendances for us, over to you Connie.

(Connie explaining Einsteins special theory of relativity to Frank in his office)

                                                                                                                                                                 

Thank you David and thank you to T100 for giving me my head on this, I promise I’ll repay the compliment, again. Yes I have been pumping the numbers to suck the facts out of attendances this season in T100’s top flight to see if clubs are getting the numbers of bums on seats their position in the league should warrant.

At just over the half way mark for the season we would expect to see a direct correlation between league position for a club and their average attendance with no great jumps in league position in any given week likely to skew the findings significantly.

Having worked hard on the problem I slid the relevant data into my computer, Deep Throat, and this is what it spat out at me.

Club	Stadium	Capacity	Average	%	League	Variance
Manchester United	Old Trafford	75,765	74,858	98.8	6	5
Bayern München	Allianz Arena	75,000	73,339	97.8	2	0
Real Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	85,454	83,287	97.5	3	0
Arsenal	Emirates Stadium	66,066	64,258	97.3	7	3
Barcelona	Camp Nou	99,359	93,321	93.9	1	-4
FC Porto	Estádio do Dragão	58,938	51,670	87.7	5	-1
Juventus	Juventus Stadium	64,741	56,757	87.7	4	-3
Chelsea	Stamford Bridge	63,848	53,651	84.0	8	0
Atlético Madrid	Vicente Calderón	65,272	54,081	82.9	9	0
Fenerbahçe SK	Şükrü Saracoğlu	62,516	49,147	78.6	10	0
ACF Fiorentina	Artemio Franchi	57,699	43,566	75.5	11	0
Liverpool	Anfield	65,349	47,976	73.4	12	0
Manchester City	Etihad Stadium	65,516	47,965	73.2	16	3
Bayer Leverkusen	BayArena	60,050	43,232	72.0	13	-1
Lyon	Parc OL	64,411	44,440	69.0	15	0
AC Milan	San Siro	80,018	52,427	65.5	14	-2
Valencia CF	Mestalla	64,945	40,997	63.1	17	0
Internazionale	Giuseppe Meazza	80,018	50,354	62.9	18	0
Sevilla	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	64,863	40,208	62.0	20	1
SS Lazio	Stadio Olimpico	73,261	44,156	60.3	19	-1

The table above shows clubs ordered by the size of their average attendance, that average expressed as a percentage of their capacity, their actual league position and finally the variance of that to their position in this table.

Twenty games into the season we would not expect to see much variance between a clubs position in the league and their position in the attendance table, I love positions don’t you, one day I’ll tell you all about my favourite and it’s effect upon the angle of the dangle, which is directly proportional to the lust of the thrust, but back to the member, I mean matter in hand.

All things being fair (coughs) in the SM Universe only minor deviations would be anticipated to account for a clubs sudden rise or fall in their league position as with A C Milan for whom the gravitational slide towards the black hole of the bottom four sees their attendance standing being above their league position by 2 places.

Things however are far more intriguing at the top end of the table where one would expect to see long time front runners Barca at the top of the attendance table. Not so, they languish an astonishing 5^th in the table a deviation of 4 from their league position and are the main victims of what appears to be a faulty code in the SM game engine algorithms, closely followed by Juve who show a 3 place deviation despite their consistent league standing.

The main beneficiaries of this anomaly appear, strangely enough, to be English clubs, with the exception of Liverpool they all rank much higher in the attendance table than their league position warrants with Man Utd having a whopping 5 place variation followed by both Arsenal and Man City with 3, coincidence? SM bias? I’ll let you decide.

That’s all from me for now and thank you for reading, I’m off back to Franks office to explain that the fibonacci spiral is not a ring road in Istanbul.