New Zealand WHFB Event Size - Some Stats

With the FOB NZ rankings now having just passed the second anniversary of the first entered event I thought I would take a look at the size of events.

Split the data into two periods - 1 July 2012 - 30 June 2013 and 1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014.

 July 2012 - June 2013:

• Events - 16 ( Northern 7, Central 6 and Southern 3)
• Average Size - 20.6
• Median Size -19
• Largest - 43
• Total Entrants - 329

July 2013 - June 2014:

• Events - 21 (Northern 10, Central 7 and Southern 4)
• Average Size - 19.8
• Median Size - 19
• Largest - 30
• Total Entrants - 416

For the purposes of this exercise Northern is North of Taupo, Central is North Island South of Taupo and Southern is South Island.

In the twelve months just ended we have had more events (30% increase) but they are slightly smaller on average. However this average is distorted by Equinox 2013 which drew 43. This year it fell to 30. The median size is the same at 19 participants.

From a Rankings viewpoint this means that in the past twelve months the largest rankings event was worth 90 points. It means that the highest achievable score was 262 points (Dan Butler currently has 256 points). The previous year it was 274 points.