Press
Every figure on this page is counted live from the database, as of 2026-09-25. Quote it, and link to the page it came from so your readers can check it the way you did.
Contact
press@bagnotes.com reaches Rory Hansen directly. Media enquiries are answered ahead of everything else here; expect a reply the same day on a deadline, so say if you are on one.
Where it stands, 2026-09-25
- 18,183
- sourced claims
- 268
- players documented
- 3,433
- distinct items
- 5,722
- reports read, from 11 outlets
- 216
- frozen monthly readings
The reporting behind the archive runs from 2007-10-02 to 2026-09-24, and the monthly series covers October 2008 to September 2026.
Available on request
- A single brand’s share over any period, with the counts and the panel at each point.
- A category’s full monthly series as CSV.
- One player’s documented history, with the source behind every entry.
- Who switched between two brands, and when.
Most of this is already public — see the monthly readings — but a cut shaped to your story is quicker to write from, and costs nothing to produce.
Using the figures
Free to reproduce, credited to Bag Notes with a link to the page the number came from. One thing worth stating in any piece that quotes a share: these are shares of the players this site documents, not of the whole field, and that group grows as the archive does. A brand can add players and still lose share. Counts are always printed beside percentages here for that reason, and a quoted percentage without its denominator will mislead your readers.
Boilerplate
Bag Notes is an independent record of the equipment players plays, assembled from published reporting and tied back to it. Every one of its 18,183 claims links to the article that made it. It takes no payment from manufacturers, and its rankings are counts of cited usage that cannot be bought.
Methodology
How claims are collected, what is excluded, and how the counts work is set out on the about page. If something here is wrong, contact@bagnotes.com — corrections take priority.