Number of entries to GF ballot

[goyoucatters]

The hottest tickets in town
Daniel Breen
September 16th, 2008



SEPTEMBER sleepouts at the Cattery have become less common despite Geelong's charge towards back-to-back flags.
Hundreds of Cats fans shivered through Sunday night at Skilled Stadium to be among the first to get a preliminary final ticket yesterday morning.
The dust had settled by noon as Cats staff sold more than 1000 AFL preliminary final tickets in three hours.
But Geelong chief operating officer Stuart Fox said many more fans had turned to technology to book their seats this finals series.
"We certainly planned for the rush, but people are becoming more aware of their options to purchase tickets and I've seen a noticeable difference from last year in the way fans have bought their seats," Fox said.
"There's certainly less people queueing and more sitting at home on the internet or buying their tickets over the phone."
The sleepout will be pointless if Geelong reaches Saturday week's grand final, with a computer system set to decide who gets a seat to the decider.
Fox said 20,560 Geelong members had registered in the grand final ticket ballot, which will take place on Saturday if the Cats defeat the Western Bulldogs on Friday night.
The system will randomly select members' bar codes to determine who gets a seat.
Mr Fox said the club expected to receive about 11,500 tickets if it reached the grand final.
If the Cats are competing, registered members can find out if they receive a ticket by logging on to www.gfc.com.au on Sunday night.
Ticket collections will start on Monday.




So, I wasn't sure what to make of these figures...

11,500/20, 560 = 55.9% chance of success

But...the numbers above would include September members and full social club members?

Does anyone know how many September/full social club members we had this year?

Admittedly, we'll never know how many registered for the ballot, but it will give a 'worst case' scenario for the odds of success for the rest of us.

Just interested to get an approximate idea about our realistic chance of success in the ballot...

Does anybody still have the number of tickets, and the number of ballot entries from last year?

Anyway, I admit the focus needs to be on Friday....otherwise the whole discussion becomes meaningless.

FIRE UP CATS!!!!

 

[kingy_08]

I think there's 2,500 september and social club members

 

[goyoucatters]

So (assuming that almost all of them signed up), we're looking at 9, 000 places from around 18, 000 entries to the ballot?

50% chance?

If that's the case, probably better than I'd thought this time around.

I seem to remember 2007 figures had around 55% of applicants scoring a ticket?

 

[Budda 230]

So were the 2,500 Social club and September members included in that figure of 20,560?

 

[goyoucatters]

Not actually totally sure, but i'm guessing they would have to be.

They did have to register after all...albeit at an earlier time.

And the allocation of 11, 500 sounds like the TOTAL figure of tickets available to the club (both clubs get about this amount for all their members - I read it on the main AFL site), not the amount left over after allocation to September/full SC members.

If they're included in the 11, 500 figure, I'm guessing they're included in the 20, 560. Apples with apples...

Anyone else sure about this?

 

[BlueNWhite]

Also - figure on maybe 500 of those going to directors, staff, cheer squad etc - internal people who warrant a free ticket to the granny - as well as invites for VIP's etc...

The pie shrinks even further!

 

[Syd Kennets]

Also - figure on maybe 500 of those going to directors, staff, cheer squad etc - internal people who warrant a free ticket to the granny - as well as invites for VIP's etc...

The pie shrinks even further!

Those are allocated in the clubs 1000 tickets they get from the AFL.

You can see the breakdown on the cats Website.

Category Intended Allocation (approximate)
Members NIL
Coterie Groups 120
Corporate Suite Holders NIL
Corporate Functions 80
On-Sellers 350
Sponsors 310
Staff/Players/Directors etc 65
Club Promotions/Raffles 25
Other AFL Clubs NIL
Other 50
Total 1000

Cheer squad might take 50-100 of the members 11,500 allocation however.

 

[rizzo]

Those are allocated in the clubs 1000 tickets they get from the AFL.

You can see the breakdown on the cats Website.



Cheer squad might take 50-100 of the members 11,500 allocation however.

CS gets 250 tickets.

 

[Syd Kennets]

There you go.

 

[magic_johnson!]

CS gets 250 tickets.

 

[LongBomb]

CS gets 250 tickets.

2 seats each?

 

[rizzo]

2 seats each?

maybe some of them need it apparently the Cs have 400 members, so its not hard to see how they get allocated 250 seats.