Google trends by state/province: favorite sports team
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Bixby Snyder
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maybe, but I guess they were only looking at major sports leagues and the CFL isn't that. I'm sure Oklahoma Sooners football is bigger than the Thunder in Oklahoma but this survey didn't count them either.
Boreal
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I'm fairly certain that the Roughriders are more popular in Saskatchewan than that Lakers are inside of Staples Centre. I understand how this was created... but all anybody need to do is spend roughly 30 minutes inside Regina or maybe 2 hours in Saskatoon and you will figure it out pretty quick.
NorthCoast
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This is a perfect example of what I said on page 1 was wrong with this analysis and the conclusions drawn from it.
This is likely the data they used to determine Saskatchewan.
Pretty obvious which team is more popular over the long-term...but one big spike for the oilers and that's what they based it off.
I don't want to trash it too much because it's great to see people leveraging the tools and creating cool graphics like this, just wish they were a little more specific in describing what the data actually represented.
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Zegras Zebra
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I guess they probably didn't include the CFL or else the Riders would easily be number 1 in Saskatchewan. If college football was included I'm sure Alabama and Oklahoma would be their respective college teams. The one I'm most shocked for was that California's top team was the Dodgers, and not the Lakers, followed by Indiana not being the Colts. However if large spikes of searches influence the result drastically than it would make more sense.
cheswick
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The criteria used is most searched teams in a five year period. And the blue jays were searched more in Saskatchewan than the rough riders were.
I can't imagine anyone in Saskatchewan needing Google to find Riders info. They have all the relevant URLs burned into their brain from birth.
Yukon Joe
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Speaking as a one-time Yukoner I'm really surprised that the Oilers would top the list in Yukon. If anything it would be more Canucks territory, but really there are no clear local favourite teams.
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It's pretty clear why the CFL wasn't considered on this. Same as MLS.
List of professional sports leagues by revenue - Wikipedia
If they had such little understanding of what they were studying, they should have just limited the analysis to the US.
Bixby Snyder
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From the source: "I included CFL and MLS data. The Blue Jays beat the Riders because the 2015 and 2016 playoff buzz generated so many searches"
Sounds like the study satisfied what it was intended to do, but whether it is actually useful information is dubious because people may not actually Google their favourite professional sports team, they Google the hot story of the day where they don't already have established sources of information.
Sounds like the study satisfied what it was intended to do, but whether it is actually useful information is dubious because people may not actually Google their favourite professional sports team, they Google the hot story of the day where they don't already have established sources of information.
YEM
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pathetic franchise
when the u is good, they're more popular locally by a country mile
Wolf357
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College Sport outdraws and is watched by many in The USA.. but it’s Reginal .
Even in a small city like Grand Forks ND the support of the Sioux (Falcons) is insaine.
I’m pretty sure that it’s a state law if there are more than 2 people walking together at least 2 must be wearing Sioux Gear.
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NorthCoast
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IMO any inference of "popularity" out of this data is very misleading.
For example, by the same measure...People in Saskatchewan also searched about Trump more than they did the RoughRiders...doesn't mean that Trump is more popular in Saskatchewan than the local CFL team.
It's akin to saying that Gangam Style is the most popular song ever in the past decade because for a brief period it was really, really popular and got a tone of YouTube views.
Spikes in interest do not equate to the ongoing/long-term popularity of a sports team, which is what most people reading this probably thought was the conclusion.
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cheswick
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In the past 5 years the blue jays were searched for more often. Which is what the figure in the OP showed.
