1056Plymouth Argyle
965Bradford City
899Swindon Town
701Grimsby Town
682Port Vale
622Walsall
590Leyton Orient
519Scunthorpe United
491Mansfield Town
465Crewe Alexandra
435Oldham Athletic
430Cambridge United
428Northampton Town
425Carlisle United
376Exeter City
367Newport County
283Salford City
274Colchester United
271Cheltenham Town
244Forest Green Rovers
223Stevenage
215Macclesfield Town
151Crawley Town
149Morecambe

So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

After decades of taking hundreds to away grounds and only getting a handful in return, we are massively in credit.

Do we punch our weight relative to home gates?

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Thought it was the other way round. We normally average 300-400 on our travels with 200 odd coming here. This season may be skewed by Swindon, Plymouth, Exeter bringing good followings to RP.

Forest Green have improved since they took 7 to Notts County a few years back!

George Street-Bridge wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

After decades of taking hundreds to away grounds and only getting a handful in return, we are massively in credit.

Do we punch our weight relative to home gates?

I'm not sure, but around 10% of the number of County fans at home games travel away.... That sort of sounds quite a good following, relatively, though not massive numbers.

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Can we determine that without knowing the average away attendance at RP?

faerun exile wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Thought it was the other way round. We normally average 300-400 on our travels with 200 odd coming here. This season may be skewed by Swindon, Plymouth, Exeter bringing good followings to RP.

it's maybe wise to assess it at the season's end, but if your figures are based on 14 games, then currently, the average number of away fans coming TO our ground is 386.7..... a lot less than we take away

Amberexile wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Can we determine that without knowing the average away attendance at RP?

After 14 games. it's 386.7

newgroundrodney wrote:

faerun exile wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Thought it was the other way round. We normally average 300-400 on our travels with 200 odd coming here. This season may be skewed by Swindon, Plymouth, Exeter bringing good followings to RP.

it's maybe wise to assess it at the season's end, but if your figures are based on 14 games, then currently, the average number of away fans coming TO our ground is 386.7..... a lot less than we take away

We take an average of 367 away so 20 less than come to RP. The 367 is based on the number of away league games we have played so far which i think is 11.

faerun exile wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:

faerun exile wrote:

newgroundrodney wrote:So, as is often the case, Newport County take fewer fans away on average than we receive in visitors.

Thought it was the other way round. We normally average 300-400 on our travels with 200 odd coming here. This season may be skewed by Swindon, Plymouth, Exeter bringing good followings to RP.

it's maybe wise to assess it at the season's end, but if your figures are based on 14 games, then currently, the average number of away fans coming TO our ground is 386.7..... a lot less than we take away

We take an average of 367 away so 20 less than come to RP. The 367 is based on the number of away league games we have played so far which i think is 11.

I meant MORE than we take away.... sorry, just getting over a stroke so making typos all over the place.
I think our away following as a percentage of our home following is probably quite high, at around 10%

A possible better measure would take in average home attendance. With that in mind the result is as follows:

Scunthorpe 15.2%
Grimsby 15.0
Port Vale 13.9
Walsall 13.6
Oldham 12.5
Swindon 12.1
Mansfield 11.1
Leyton Orient 10.4
Plymouth Argyle 10.4
Cambridge 10.4
Macclesfield 10.4
Carlisle 9.9
Crewe Alex 9.9
Salford 9.3
Forest Green Rovers 9.3
Newport County 9.0
Northampton 8.5
Stevenage 8.3
Cheltenham 7.8
Colchester 7.6
Exeter City 7.5
Bradford City 6.8
Crawley 6.7
Morecambe 6.5

NearlyDead wrote:A possible better measure would take in average home attendance. With that in mind the result is as follows:

Scunthorpe 15.2%
Grimsby 15.0
Port Vale 13.9
Walsall 13.6
Oldham 12.5
Swindon 12.1
Mansfield 11.1
Leyton Orient 10.4
Plymouth Argyle 10.4
Cambridge 10.4
Macclesfield 10.4
Carlisle 9.9
Crewe Alex 9.9
Salford 9.3
Forest Green Rovers 9.3
Newport County 9.0
Northampton 8.5
Stevenage 8.3
Cheltenham 7.8
Colchester 7.6
Exeter City 7.5
Bradford City 6.8
Crawley 6.7
Morecambe 6.5

does this include away followings in each case, or is it home fans only?

No. I was vaguely intrigued by the data and it seemed to require some sort of normalisation. I didn't have time to locate/calculate (average home attendance) - (away support).

It's [(average away support (from this page))/(total average home attendance (from Sky Sports website))]×100

In practice, I think it'll only make marginal differences. I might have another go this evening.

Maybe it should also take into average distance to away grounds. Teams with a lot of short distance away venues will probably have a bigger away following.