Northern League - 2023 Review

It’s that time again: time to review the state of the Northern League (the wargames competition scene in the North of England).  In fact it's a little early this year as the organisers seem to be red hot this year.

I'm glad to say that this year I managed to participate in my increasingly standard two rounds.

Observations

• The league seems to have settled into a stable pattern with average players per round in the mid to high twenties.  Sadly, there's no sign of increasing attendance for either rule set.
• Once again the DBMM players proved the most consistent in their support of the League.
• The number of ADLG players who attended all five rounds dropped from 6 to 2.  This a big drop.  For DBMM the figure was 5, down from 6 last year.
• Despite the above drop, the ADLG players managed an average of 3.30 rounds (up from 2.63) nearly matching the DBMM players with 3.67 (little changed from 3.80).
• 6 of 23 (26%) ADLG played in 1 or 2 rounds.  This compares with 3 of 9 (33%) of the DBMM players. This is lower than last year suggesting fewer players are trying the League.

Data Set
For those that wish to study the numbers here they are:

Average Players / Round
Year	DBM	DBMM	FOG AM	FOG R	ADLG	Totals
2006	58.0					58.0
2007	38.0					38.0
2008	18.0	7.2	16.6			41.8
2009	7.0	11.8	26.6			45.4
2010		8.8	33.0			41.8
2011		11.0	34.8			45.8
2012		11.6	27.4	5.8		44.8
2013		12.4	19.0	10.0		41.4
2014		12.8	14.4	9.6		36.8
2015		13.4	7.4	8.8		29.6
2016		11.0	4.8	9.6		25.4
2017		11.8			12.6	24.4
2018		13.2	3.2		14.4	30.8
2019		13.2			18.8	32.0
2021		13.0			11.3	24.3
2022		12.8			16.6	29.4
2023		11.4			15.2	26.6

Index of Northern League reviews.