Forgive me for my naivety but I’m trying to figure out the technical term for this situation so I can explain it better to my coworkers.
I am figuring out average tickets sold for events at 6 different venues over two separate years. Individually, year over year, each venue has decreased in the average tickets sold per event, but cumulatively the average tickets sold of all venues combined per event has increased.
I want to call it “weighted” because the venues that sell the most tickets per event have increased the number of events from the previous year where some venues that sell fewer tickets decreased the number of events. So even though cumulatively, the number of events increased by 10, those 10 events were more heavily weighted to the venues that sell more tickets.
Below is a very simple breakdown of my example using just two venues.
VENUE 1
2025: Sold 30,000 tickets across 15 events (avg 2,000 per event)
2026: Sold 40,000 tickets across 25 events (avg 1,600 per event)
VENUE 2
2025: Sold 10,000 tickets across 50 events (avg 200 per event)
2026: Sold 8,000 tickets across 45 events (avg 178 per event)
CUMULATIVE
2025: Sold 40,000 tickets across 65 events (avg 615 per event)
2026: Sold 48,000 tickets across 70 events (avg 685 per event)