Who's Playing What Right Now?

I'm planning on repeating my now-regular 12-monthly roundup of the state of UK Ancients 'big battle' competition play in it's usual April slot for consistency, however with the new year just about starting (with ADLG, DBM, MeG and FoG 3 at Godendag and the well-attended Milton Keynes 1-dayer for DBMM) I thought a snapshot of the 2017 calendar year in competitions might be interesting:

Numbers of players who entered at least one UK event for the following rulesets during 2017 were:

• L'Art de la Guerre : 163 (up 27 since April 2017)
• FoG AM : 89  (down 13)  
• DBMM : 84  (unchanged)
• MeG : 52 (up up 21)
• DBM : 40 (down 8)
• Swordpoint : at least 39 (up 10) - I'm missing the numbers from Derby

Tournament numbers and sizes

• L'Art de la Guerre : 27 events held, average entry 18
• FoG AM : 15 events held, average entry 18  
• DBMM : 18 events held, average entry 15
• MeG : 10 events held, average entry 16
• DBM : 7 events held, average entry 13 (the majority of events are doubles)
• Swordpoint : 4 events held that I have results for, average field 17

(ADLG and DBMM include 2 events where 15mm and 25mm were offered in parallel, with FoG numbers including 1 such event. This tends to depress the average entry size a tad).

And, here's a graph...

This shows the last few years and illustrates how player numbers have changed - each line represents a different ruleset, and each point on the graph represents the total number of players who've taken part in at least 1 event for that ruleset in the previous 12 months.

The data is a little "gappy" for some of the sets, but for both ADLG and MeG I believe every event held in the UK since June 2015 has been captured.

Interesting times!