bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Elliottman said: I will make an entrance... Last year, I won the opening day in Level 7 with my boy. Dont think I had another ballot win all season (from memory) but managed to get tickets in the general sale thankfully. So far I've had Wolves and Bradford. Season before I had a lot of success including PSG. Season 23/24 with no member general sale meant ballot success was higher But it was either ballot success or Which was worse than what we have now, in my opinion. If you take the bots and touts out of the equation obvz. Edited September 23, 2025 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 Season 23/24 - 48% Season 24/25 - 20% Season 25/26 - 16.66% (1/6) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 1 minute ago, Tross said: Season 23/24 - 48% Season 24/25 - 20% Season 25/26 - 16.66% (1/6) For this season and last, if you don't get a ticket in the ballot, do you still get a ticket through general sale / resale ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 1 minute ago, bobbydazzla said: For this season and last, if you don't get a ticket in the ballot, do you still get a ticket through general sale / resale ? Aye, so far so good this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 2 minutes ago, Tross said: Aye, so far so good this season. What about last season ? I'm curious as to whether people who consistently get general sale / resale tickets are also getting lower than average ballot success Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 2 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: What about last season ? I'm curious as to whether people who consistently get general sale / resale tickets are also getting lower than average ballot success It’s a fair question, especially given your own situation, but I’d be very surprised if the ballot is sophisticated enough to take that into account. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 5 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: What about last season ? I'm curious as to whether people who consistently get general sale / resale tickets are also getting lower than average ballot success Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 14 minutes ago, SteV said: It’s a fair question, especially given your own situation, but I’d be very surprised if the ballot is sophisticated enough to take that into account. Don't imagine it's that difficult, quick bit of Googling shows that ticket balloting software usually has prioritisation or weighted randomness capabilities Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 2 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: Don't imagine it's that difficult, quick bit of Googling shows that ticket balloting software usually has prioritisation or weighted randomness capabilities If it does, then they’d probably save themselves a load of grief by using it to phase out the randomness and give a more even distribution of success (resale abilities aside). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 1 hour ago, SteV said: What % is shite though? I’m not saying I think adult and child get like 50% or anything, still probably hovering around the 20% mark, but seems to be less instances of <10%. Also, there’s still an element of randomness within it all. There will be some adult and child applicants down at really low success and some single adults at higher than average success. Whatever theories we all have, there’s clearly no silver bullet to applying successfully Applied for all home games and was successful in 3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 3 minutes ago, Earp said: Applied for all home games and was successful in 3. I think that’s about 12% then. On the low side, agreed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 (edited) 8 minutes ago, SteV said: If it does, then they’d probably save themselves a load of grief by using it to phase out the randomness and give a more even distribution of success (resale abilities aside). That's exactly why I'm curious about comparing ballot success rates for people who are / aren't consistently getting general sale tickets Maybe the club feels it's fairer if the software is programmed to deprioritise the ballot for members who are always successful in the 10am sales Edited September 23, 2025 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 One issue is that the sample size is so small over a football season. Even over 3 football seasons. You could win loads or lose loads in a row still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 (edited) 16 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: One issue is that the sample size is so small over a football season. Even over 3 football seasons. You could win loads or lose loads in a row still. Aye, it's not going to form the basis of an academic research paper on Statistics and Probability in the Age of Ballot Software Algorithms But if the usual N-O suspects who always get general sale tickets, also get really low ballot success %'s vs people who only ever get tickets in the ballot, then it's food for thought innit Or there might be absolutely no correlation and I'm just paranoid Edited September 23, 2025 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 You are but I don't completely blame you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 Currently sacrificing two goats and a turkey in vain hope to appease the Ballot Gods for Fulham and Benfica tickets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 Just the 96,837 so far in the queue for Benfica. Bots ahoy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 100,000 in the queue just in the first hour for Benfica tickets. Whether they're bots or not, it's beginning to look fucking pointless having a membership. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 Over 100k in the queue for Benfica tickets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 Just now, Stifler said: Over 100k in the queue for Benfica tickets. Absolutely bizarre given you have 24hrs to register and there’s no significant benefit to being on multiple devices. Queue numbers seem questionable tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 I05,000 people in the Benfica ballot queue and 661 tickets already listed for sale on Seatpick Glad to see the NUFC anti-bot touting clampdown is going as well as one would expect Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 28 minutes ago, SteV said: Absolutely bizarre given you have 24hrs to register and there’s no significant benefit to being on multiple devices. Queue numbers seem questionable tbh. Every time you join I guess you get a new number, so it's probably people leaving when they see the queue and join back again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallumG6 Posted September 23, 2025 Share Posted September 23, 2025 I'll be binning my membership off if we get no comms from them and I can't win at least two. Taking the fans for fucking idiots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marquee Moon Posted September 24, 2025 Share Posted September 24, 2025 When you lot are getting tickets in the member sale are yous just buying 1, or managing to get 2 next to each other? I always forget about the member sale, but the ballot seems fucking hopeless this season so im gonna have to give it a bash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted September 24, 2025 Share Posted September 24, 2025 27 minutes ago, Marquee Moon said: When you lot are getting tickets in the member sale are yous just buying 1, or managing to get 2 next to each other? I always forget about the member sale, but the ballot seems fucking hopeless this season so im gonna have to give it a bash. I think you generally have to be extremely fortunate to manage two together, but others will be better placed to comment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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