[SBU Board] 2016 Fall Sectional Attendance
JC Chupack
jc.chupack at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 11:02:38 PDT 2016
I needed a warm-up data exercise this morning, so I went ahead and did some
quantitative measures using the Google map (polygon drawing plus some APIs
to count dots in polygon). Note that the regions overlap in some cases, so
you can't add up line items indiscriminately and get to a meaningful total.
[image: Inline image 1]
To be a little more indicative, I did measures of how many members could
easily get to a given region, given highways, bridges/lakes/ferries,
traffic choke points, etc. That's the last two columns. Admittedly,
that's based on my read of the map and travel, and there's some certainly
some room to debate what I included when I drew the polygons for each
total. Someone who knew map APIs way better than I do could use commute
estimates to do a better job with this.
Eastside basically wins out mostly because of population density and that
it can pick up northern suburbs when the location is north or southern
suburbs if the location is south (and sometimes eastern suburbs) as well as
Mercer Island and some parts of Seattle. Central/downtown seattle is
strong for all the reasons a downtown area tends to be strong (everything
sprawls out from it), but of course, finding a location in that area that
we can afford for a sectional is a known difficulty that is sometimes less
true of eastside, particularly as we lean north or south.
I've warmed myself up enough to start doing work, but I'll try to do a % of
unit of commutable score for the planned locations for next year this
weekend using the same criteria, and for this past year's sectionals so we
can look at what this would suggest vs. what actually happened.
JC
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:20 AM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had done up a Google Map earlier this year to get an idea of geographic
> locations of our members, because I was curious. (I can't remember if I
> shared it back then or not. I may have taken it to a meeting?) This version
> used our roster as of July of 2016, and I pulled out all non-address data
> before uploading to Google. Here's the link, and a screenshot:
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1VYkp7GNYQv0wMA_fnye_2mi4FsM
> <--if you use the link, you can zoom in on any given area and get a good
> visual idea of density of members in that area. Eastside and "central"
> Seattle are the densest. The color coding is by mailing address city, but
> obviously, some cities are smaller than others by design (e.g., Mercer
> Island), so that's not inherently useful.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
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>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Sharon.
>>
>> All,
>> John W is trying to pull together historical table count figures so we
>> can examine last weekend's turnout in the context of recent years'
>> sectionals. Of course, there are always several variables at play that
>> influence turnout and these will be items for discussion.
>>
>> Some initial observations based on a quick look at the figures below:
>>
>> There were (25+5+8+43+41+8+12+19=) 161 sessions played by players from
>> the southern portion of U446. Apart from Seattle, Mercer Island and Vashon
>> (generally central areas of U446 geographically), there were
>> (3+62+12+1+16+50+2+4+6+52+8+14+6=) 236 sessions played by players from
>> north of I-90 or appreciably eastward off I-90 within U446. This suggests
>> checking to see what percentages of U446 membership are located in
>> north/central/south King County. (Mike, I seem to recall you had taken a
>> look at this last year -- do you have data on this?)
>>
>> I didn't find (may have misplaced) attendance location data for last
>> year's sectional in Kent. Would be helpful to have comparative data from
>> last year's attendance #'s from U446 South King County locales.
>>
>> There were (4+10+16+33+20+6=) 89 sessions played by players from Units to
>> the north of U446. There were (10+21=) 31 sessions played by players from
>> Units to the south of U446. Although we focus mainly on servicing our U446
>> membership (in this case South King County), drawing players from adjacent
>> Units is important. It is striking that there was such low attendance by
>> folks from units to the south, especially when we had players all the way
>> from Vancouver BC, Vancouver Island, Bellingham, Anacortes, Everett, and
>> the Olympic Peninsula. There were even (2+6+3+2+2+6=) 21 sessions played
>> by out of state players -- only 10 fewer in total than from Tacoma and
>> Olympia. This suggests the need for better marketing in the Tacoma and
>> Olympia Units (as well as in South King County).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2016, at 10:30 PM, Sharon Erwin <hilo2015sse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> attendance by unit
>> unit unit name players sessions
>> 430 Vancouver 2 4
>> 431 Victoria 2 10
>> 433 Bellingham 5 16
>> 437 Everett 8 33
>> 439 Anacortes 6 20
>> 441 Olympia 10 38
>> 443 Olympic Penin 1 6
>> 446 Seattle 246 667
>> 451 Tacoma 21 50
>> Arizona 1 2
>> New Mexico 1 6
>> California 3 3
>> Maine 1 2
>> Texas 1 2
>> Oregon 1 6
>>
>> attendance by city for U446
>> city players sessions
>> Auburn 8 25
>> Beaux Arts 1 3
>> Bellevue 26 62
>> Bothell 4 12
>> Burien 3 7
>> Carnation 1 1
>> Des Moines 2 5
>> Enumclaw 3 8
>> Federal Way 14 43
>> Issaquah 7 16
>> Kent 11 41
>> Kirkland 20 50
>> Lk Forest Pk 1 2
>> Maple Valley 3 8
>> Medina 1 4
>> Mercer Is 16 44
>> Normandy Pk 3 12
>> North Bend 2 6
>> Redmond 22 52
>> Renton 9 19
>> Sammamish 2 8
>> Seatac 4 20
>> Seattle 75 195
>> Shoreline 4 14
>> Vashon 2 4
>> Woodinville 2 6
>>
>>
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