Kudos Fuzzy and pay no attention to these philistines. They wouldn't recognize mathematical truth if Tyco Brahe cut off their nose with it. Your calculations ring true for this observer. From top to bottom, your indices show faithfully which fans are most geeked out over their teams by this forums, ahem, standards.
How do you figure that non-MLS cities have 0 attendence? For example I know several people from Houston who come to almost every Burn game. http://www.3rddegree.net/
Because, sadly, they did not attend any games in a non-MLS city (Houston). All they managed to do was lower the BSTFI for Dallas. Now if they posted in the Dallas boards then that would make up for it. On a side note, if they posted in the the non-MLS boards, they would have made the non-MLS BSTFI more infinity.
Re: Re: Bigsoccer-TrueFan index: Lamest stat ever. actually, get rid of that and subtract those posts from the total, and you will find that we still have more posts.
But the measure isn't to see which team has the most posts. That's easy enough. Rather, how often does someone post on bigsoccer after attending a match. The assumption being, and a ridiculous assumption at that, is that the more hard-core fans post on bigsoccer. The more you post, the bigger fan you are. The corollary being that the less you post the more likely you're a soccer mom dragging the troop to a game in her minivan (Rapids) or computer illiterate or just plain illiterate (LA Galaxy). You could of course remove the "DC word association" thread or the Quakes "Random gibberish" thread but that would hardly make up for the fact that this is a completely lame statistic.
A Take... TrueFan index isn't indicative of anything. Most of that drivel is directed at the MTV/teenager comments about Landon Donovan which doesn't count. Personally, the Random Jibberish thread should be moved elsewhere but that's the moderators' job. The real index should be aimed at the attendance figures and season ticket sales--not how many times Landon Donovan/Taylor Twellmann et al have been on TRL or any other show and the talk on how "dreamy" the players are. The kids can talk about that, and the fans can discuss the real issues, be the team or front office. For the record, I attend almost all of the Clash/Quakes (and CyberRays) games and had season tickets since 1998. Might be a good idea to replace it with the actual attendance figures/season ticket sales/cost of promotions/advertising... Cheers!
Re: A Take... Is there a stick in your ass? Just check for me... Prof PS. Good stat, but WAY too much time on hands...
In this world of turmoil and chaos, it is very comforting to realize that there are threads like this that will never fade into oblivion (that is unless the Bigsoccer Gods decide to do some smiting!). Anyway, I just wanted to pass this link on that is a website of someone else with too much time on their hands. I saw this link somewhere else on Bigsoccer I think, so it might be a repeat of information. MLS Attendance and Analysis Stats Page