Most Popular Sports Team by State
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Most Popular Sports Team by State
Thought this was interesting...not sure how recent the data was collected. Makes sense for football teams to be carrying multiple states but some of the results are a little surprising to me; especially New York.
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Just double checked the article and the data is from 2014; so it is a little old.
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Going by search data seems imperfect, but still surprised that the baseball team wins in Georgia, Alabama, and DC. I expected it with Missouri and Massachusetts. The Bills in New York - that one's hard to believe.
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Yeah it is a bit of a flawed polling system but curious all the same. I'm surprised the Browns win in Ohio over OSU but that is probably because I live in Columbus where the college team gets the most press.
I did some checking and the numbers though dated from 2014 seem to be reflective of current trends as well. Go figure.
I did some checking and the numbers though dated from 2014 seem to be reflective of current trends as well. Go figure.
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Bills probably got New York since they're probably the most popular in everywhere in New York other then New York City itself. By I would have to imagine that Yankees should be the #1 team.
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There's no way the Bruins are more popular in Mass than the Sox, Pats, or Celtics.
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Also since it is going by search data....I guess they get points for everyone that googled "The Bills Suck"
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Oof. I mistook Connecticut for Mass. Yeah, that's nuts.thrill wrote:There's no way the Bruins are more popular in Mass than the Sox, Pats, or Celtics.
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The Bills fans have had a pretty impressive run of drunken wrestling demonstrations and videos of butt eating from their tailgates so I would bet that they probably get a lot of searches for things like that.
That being said, I kind of want to create a bot that spoofs a NY IP address and just constantly searches for Boston Red Sox so put them as the most popular search. Maybe do the same thing and put the Cards on top in Illinois using Chicago IP addresses.
That being said, I kind of want to create a bot that spoofs a NY IP address and just constantly searches for Boston Red Sox so put them as the most popular search. Maybe do the same thing and put the Cards on top in Illinois using Chicago IP addresses.
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Having lived in upstate NY for several years, I can promise you that the Bills are far from the most popular everywhere outside of NYC. Even among football fans, it's very much an even split on being Giants/Bills. I will admit Jets fans are lacking outside of NYC.JoeMcKim wrote:Bills probably got New York since they're probably the most popular in everywhere in New York other then New York City itself. By I would have to imagine that Yankees should be the #1 team.
If anything, the most popular sports team north of NYC would be the Syracuse Orange.