The number of ACTIVE clubs in the database has risen to 770.
The number of club face to face sessions analysed on all 770 is 1,369.
16 clubs revisited during the last fortnight (still catching up from holiday!). Most of them were reviewed well over a year ago.
The club offer proportions are steady. There is still a slight and steady rise in clubs offering Face to Face sessions only
as opposed to offering online only, or a mixture of face to face and online.
Table money was increased at some clubs, but many kept it at previous levels.
More club table numbers reviewed for a second time. Overall, table numbers seem to have fallen around 3% in the last six months.Starting to have enough data to map trends.
These are not encouraging. See Home Page.
This has now reached the level where it seems reasonable to estimate the number of player sessions, playing duplicate, in all clubs in the database.
It's up to 69,000. There is some evidence of a slow decline.
The detail captures day of week, time of day and the average number of tables in the last three sessions.
Dormant and defunct clubs are forming a big section (3% and 14%), they are excluded from data about active clubs.
Newly discovered defunct and dormant clubs are being included in the database as they come to light to try and assess the long term impact of Covid.
However, they are excluded from activity statistics.
My estimate would be that 25% of clubs that were active pre-covid have folded. Smaller weekly clubs were hardest hit.
Players at many clubs are almost back to pre-covid levels, but many clubs have fewer. Some clubs have critically low table numbers.
It is still clear that weekday morning sessions, where offered, are popular!