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DelBobcat
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  Message Not Read  Football Attendance as a Percentage of Population
   Posted: 1/4/2013 8:35:02 AM 

Athens is near the top for football attendance to population ratio. Thoughts?

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/...

 

 

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   Posted: 1/4/2013 9:00:52 AM 

The link didn't work for me.  But, it is quite amazing how much this small region supports Ohio athletics. 

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

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   Posted: 1/4/2013 9:29:21 AM 

 Let's try again....

 

www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/01/footballs-most-fanatical-cities/3324/

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  Message Not Read  RE: Football Attendance as a Percentage of Population
   Posted: 1/4/2013 10:03:46 AM 
DelBobcat wrote:

Athens is near the top for football attendance to population ratio. Thoughts?

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/...

 



Thoughts: the attendance to population ratio is meaningless for stadiums that regularly sell out.
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 10:21:44 AM 
That is interesting, but if they are only calculating the actual city then it isn't accurate.  Like for tOSU you would need to include all the surrounding suburbs to get a more accurate picture.
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 10:30:51 AM 
It's a great statistic but they screwed up on their map.  They have Athens, GA with a circle showing greater than 75% but its ratio is only 50%.  They don't even have Athens, Ohio on the map.

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   Posted: 1/4/2013 10:47:02 AM 
So wait does it mean that 83% of Athens Metro goes to the game or 83% of fans that went to the game came from far away?
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 11:19:44 AM 
Bobcats_828 wrote:
So wait does it mean that 83% of Athens Metro goes to the game or 83% of fans that went to the game came from far away?


I interpret it as OUr average attendance is 83% the population of Athens.
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 11:29:00 AM 

Let me clear up some confusion:

The map is wrong. The bubble on Athens, GA should be on Athens, OH

Columbus, Ohio's figure includes the entire metro area which is Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway, and Union Counties. 

Athens, Ohio's figure includes the entire Athens micro area which is Athens County. Or at least it should, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. Athens County's pop is around 60,000. That would mean average home attendance is around 50,000, which is not possible.

Last Edited: 1/4/2013 11:34:54 AM by DelBobcat

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   Posted: 1/4/2013 11:56:52 AM 
And this article continues to cite that dumba$$ed pile of tripe that Nate Silver published which sought to measure fandom based on searches for "college football". Possibly the most moronic methodology I've ever seen
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 1:20:19 PM 
mf279801 wrote:
And this article continues to cite that dumba$$ed pile of tripe that Nate Silver published which sought to measure fandom based on searches for "college football". Possibly the most moronic methodology I've ever seen


Not sure why it's moronic. It comes out with similar results to what you'd expect. Of course it's not perfect, but he never claimed it to be. What does it hurt to do the analysis and then take it with a grain of salt, which is exactly what he recommended be done? 

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   Posted: 1/4/2013 1:39:01 PM 
DelBobcat wrote:
mf279801 wrote:
And this article continues to cite that dumba$$ed pile of tripe that Nate Silver published which sought to measure fandom based on searches for "college football". Possibly the most moronic methodology I've ever seen


Not sure why it's moronic. It comes out with similar results to what you'd expect. Of course it's not perfect, but he never claimed it to be. What does it hurt to do the analysis and then take it with a grain of salt, which is exactly what he recommended be done? 


Have you ever googled "college football"? I haven't.
Whats the harm? The harm is that no one takes it with a grain of salt. Did the author of the article at the top of this thread say "this should be taken with a grain of salt"? No, he just said "and this study found..." as if its God's honest truth.
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   Posted: 1/4/2013 1:41:06 PM 
DelBobcat wrote:

Let me clear up some confusion:

The map is wrong. The bubble on Athens, GA should be on Athens, OH

Columbus, Ohio's figure includes the entire metro area which is Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway, and Union Counties. 

Athens, Ohio's figure includes the entire Athens micro area which is Athens County. Or at least it should, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. Athens County's pop is around 60,000. That would mean average home attendance is around 50,000, which is not possible.



It looks like the map was right and the table was wrong. It SHOULD be Athens, Georgia

The Article wrote:

**Correction: An earlier version of this post mistakenly included Troy, New York and Athens, Ohio in the percent-share attendance table. It also failed to include Bowling Green, Kentucky. The corresponding map has been removed.

 
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  Message Not Read  RE: Football Attendance as a Percentage of Population
   Posted: 1/4/2013 2:33:12 PM 
mf279801 wrote:
DelBobcat wrote:
mf279801 wrote:
And this article continues to cite that dumba$$ed pile of tripe that Nate Silver published which sought to measure fandom based on searches for "college football". Possibly the most moronic methodology I've ever seen


Not sure why it's moronic. It comes out with similar results to what you'd expect. Of course it's not perfect, but he never claimed it to be. What does it hurt to do the analysis and then take it with a grain of salt, which is exactly what he recommended be done? 


Have you ever googled "college football"? I haven't.
Whats the harm? The harm is that no one takes it with a grain of salt. Did the author of the article at the top of this thread say "this should be taken with a grain of salt"? No, he just said "and this study found..." as if its God's honest truth.


Actually the author of the article said....

"In his analysis of the geography of college football fandom, Silver notes a curious pattern. Looking at Google searches for the term "college football" he finds..."

He clearly states that it was based on searches for "college football." Maybe he is wrong to assume that readers will think critically and make their own assumptions based on the clearly stated methodology. I, for one, appreciate the time he put into the analysis and find the results interesting--even if they are not a perfect approximation of football fandom. 

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  Message Not Read  RE: Football Attendance as a Percentage of Population
   Posted: 1/4/2013 2:37:13 PM 
Tyler wrote:
DelBobcat wrote:

Let me clear up some confusion:

The map is wrong. The bubble on Athens, GA should be on Athens, OH

Columbus, Ohio's figure includes the entire metro area which is Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway, and Union Counties. 

Athens, Ohio's figure includes the entire Athens micro area which is Athens County. Or at least it should, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. Athens County's pop is around 60,000. That would mean average home attendance is around 50,000, which is not possible.



It looks like the map was right and the table was wrong. It SHOULD be Athens, Georgia

The Article wrote:

**Correction: An earlier version of this post mistakenly included Troy, New York and Athens, Ohio in the percent-share attendance table. It also failed to include Bowling Green, Kentucky. The corresponding map has been removed.

 

 

Interesting. I thought it was added that they included Athens, Ohio (a micropolitan area) on a list of metropolitan areas. The Athens, GA number still says 50% though. Don't know where they got 83% from. Maybe OHIO football averages 83% of the Athens CITY population, which would be about 19,700. That makes more sense.

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