I would have liked a breakdown of the total crowd attendances by team.

Despite being 1 of 8 teams the Wildcats have more than a quarter of the total attendances. What do the other teams do?

If they did that they would have to publicise Illawarra's and Brisbane's home crowds and I can understand why they wouldn't want to draw attention to them.

Nice totals, but the bulk of the recent growth has been from the teams that need it the least.
It's not something to be satisfied with IMO.

"If they did that they would have to publicise Illawarra's and Brisbane's home crowds and I can understand why they wouldn't want to draw attention to them."

But if 2 teams constitute 43.5% of the attendance, that being :

- Wildcats - 183,689
- United - 8,293 x 14 = 116,102

= 299,791 / 688,712
= 43.5%

...wouldn't questions be asked as to what the other teams are doing with their crowds?

Couldn't u just get the figures from the box scores?

This seems a stat for potential new sponsors

https://imgur.com/a/rN8AC

great work by whoever did this up.

So even a 12 or 14 team NBL season with more regular season games saw less people actually go to games? I find that hard to believe.

It's a record for average attendance, not total attendance.

No chance the Bullets crowds were as high as reported. Definitely lower than last season.

https://imgur.com/a/rN8AC

great work by whoever did this up.

A little summary on the clubs not called Perth or Melbourne (as it seems all attendance based articles only ever mention those 2 clubs)

Illawarra Hawks:
Every year commentators always say how great the Illawarra Hawks are in the community. Their crowds for years have been horrible and to me don't reflect a great "community" club. They play in a decent sized stadium, are always competitive (even when they're down near the bottom) yet just can't get this so-called great community showing up to games.

They've been on the brink of collapse many times, and could head there again soon. Does something drastic need to happen, such as relocation to Sydney or Canberra? This isn't the broke incompetent NBL of 10 years ago, yet the Hawks are still drawing attendances that reflect those years. Might be time to give up on them I think, unless they are somehow making money from other streams.

Brisbane Bullets:
Still basically an expansion club that has finished bottom in their first 2 years. You can argue that the Bullets have always been around and are one of the great clubs, but they haven't been great - or even relevant - since the 90's. I think there is potential still in Brisbane. Give them a fan-freindly schedule, play more games at the Entertainment Centre, and if they can win more games I'd expect crowds to start showing up. 4000+ average should be attainable. Brisbane is also a very tough sports market. Not many clubs do well there unless you're the Broncos.

NZ Breakers:
Seems they need a bit of a re-build to revitalise them again, as their crowds have been slowly dropping off. Maybe get rid of games at the horrible NSEC and have all matches at Spark? They seem to do OK there. I also don't buy into their Thursday matches being that popular.

Cairns:
Nearly full houses every night. Great result for a community based regional club.

Sydney Kings:
Unbelievable crowds considering how awful they were all year (except towards the end) Maybe they just prefer the entertainment over winning?

Adelaide:
Hardly published their crowds, but it looks like they had a great year.

Yep, there are pretty five teams with really good crowds, Breakers with reasonable crowds and Bris & Illawarra struggling.

Its weird the Bullets, as there has been a fair bit of media coverage, promotions on main stream radio etc... Lets be real - even when the bullets had a $3M roster in their championship year, did they ever really sell out the "library" known as convention centre?

I think a lot of teams need to stand up and watch very very closely what Melb, Perth and Sydney do for game day entertainment - its first class and replicates a NBA feel.... Look at Sydney last week - playing an out of town bullets team, both running dead last, and they pulled nearly 9500... That is more than a lot of NRL attendances, roosters vs cowboys on a saturday arvo would be lucky to pull that number.

I Lived in Sydney for 3 years (came back Jan '17) and was able to travel and see the Cats play in Melbourne, Sydney and Illawarra.

Melb has great crowds, however its a Melbourne crowd... Melbournians will come out to watch 2 seagulls wrestling over a chip, much of their crowd had no interest in the game or result. that is not to diminish a large number who were loud and passionate. The real fans are great (many still wearing Tigers tops) but there is a lot of people who just rock up because there is no AFL on (crowds dropped by 3000 from first to second cats games when AFLX was on). Big crowd...50% passion.

Illawarra had a small crowd but big noise. Their fans are as loud and passionate as any in the league, but they sometimes go a bit far. we sat behind the away bench and some of the abuse being throw at Gleeson (warranted abuse I agree) was to a point where I wouldn't want my kid there. There isn't much else to do in the Gong so why don't people come along? maybe a joint Dragons/Hawks NRL/NBL membership deal? or merge them as 1 club?

King fans make Melbourne fans look like NBL scholars who live for the game. No Passion, No colour (Do they sell Kings merch? coz no one wears it). we saw the last game in the city and I reckon it was 70% full with a lot of people carrying paper tickets. when they moved out to Homebush we saw a few games out there as well, pathetic crowd with much of the seating covered. One time we were sitting next to a junior team (they call out the team and they get put on the screen) and I asked the coach if they paid or were given the tickets, they were given by the Kings... there would of been 10 of these teams. good to get the local kids out but its really fudging the crowd figures. an unknowledgeable announcer, an uncaring crowd, a poor DJ and Gimmicks (the sword in the stone??) made for a comical and embarrassing game night experience.

"(Do they sell Kings merch? coz no one wears it)"

If I were a Kings Supporter, I would do my level best to hide the fact that I was a Kings supporter.

fareweather fans by definition will come out and pay to watch their team in a final.

I think Illawarra / Wollongong / Illawarra lost a bit of it's community appeal in the last few years. There has been a few notable things that stood out, not all the fault of the Hawks. The below are not in any order :

1) When they almost folded, they did 'something' with staff entitlements, I don't know exactly what but Gordie mentioned this on his way out that those actions were not in line with the Hawk's core values.

2) They brought in people like Jahii Carson and even paired him with Gary Ervin.

3) Gordie left.

4) They got rid of Dave Gruber.

5) Campbell and Savs retired.

6) The treatment of Cody Ellis.

NZ Breakers:
Seems they need a bit of a re-build to revitalise them again, as their crowds have been slowly dropping off. Maybe get rid of games at the horrible NSEC and have all matches at Spark? They seem to do OK there.

Brisbane have lost a lot of very winnable games, they're not too far off the mark.

I still remember that game against NZ last year where they lost despite never trailing.