Australian sport leagues: Movers and shakers: NRL, Cricket Australia, A-League
One of the end goals that I have is to do a post like this on a daily basis… (It needs to be automated. By hand, even with the data mined, it took about an hour to compile as I had to line up the accounts, get daily growth, combine by league and federation.) The goal is to track daily momentum for each league when compared to each other. This is probably a few months off. This is done by:
- Counting only leagues and federations that appeared on at least three sites that I collect from: Alexa with an Australian ranking, Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. If a field is blank, it means that there was no data available for that category for whatever reason. If there is a zero, it means there was no change.
- Alexa data includes only sites with an Australian rank. It compares the difference in rank between January 6 and January 7 for all teams in that league. If there were multiple sites for a league, the differences were totaled.
- Facebook data includes all accounts affiliated with that league. The difference between followers on January 4 and January 5 was calculated for each account. These differences were then added together.
- Foursquare data is for the period between December 31 and January 6. The count is for total checkins related to that league. A week was chosen to make sure that leagues that had games in this period were actually included.
- Twitter data includes all accounts affiliated with that league. The difference between followers on January 6 and January 7 was calculated for each account. These differences were then added together.
The date used in this analysis can be found at Daily Ranking – January 7.xls.
Australian sport leagues: Movers and shakers: NRL, Cricket Australia, A-League
| Alexa | Foursquare | Composite Score | |||
| NRL | 4,195 | 1,227 | 430 | 5,852 | |
| Cricket Australia/Ashes/Twenty20 Big Bash | (983) | 1,463 | 430 | 2,994 | 3,904 |
| AFL | 1,609 | 532 | 1,506 | 3,647 | |
| Australian Open Series/Tennis Australia | 139 | 854 | 5 | 342 | 1,340 |
| Netball Australia/ANZ Championship | 609 | 46 | 69 | 724 | |
| Ironman Australia/Triathlon Australia | 0 | 4 | 164 | 168 | |
| NBL | (51) | 22 | 9 | 75 | 55 |
| W-League | (1) | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| ABL/Australian Baseball Federation | (31) | (3) | 9 | 13 | (12) |
| Hockey Australia | (169) | 22 | 18 | (129) | |
| Athletics Australia | (225) | 7 | (218) | ||
| PGA of Australia/Golf Australia | (489) | 0 | 3 | (486) | |
| A-League | (2,671) | 15 | 43 | 123 | (2,490) |
| Australia Roller Derby | (26,084) | 23 | 0 | 6 | (26,055) |
If people are interested in seeing this kind of data again, please let me know. For some leagues such as the AFL, NRL and A-League, I may have enough data to actually compare between teams. The problem with doing teams is that Alexa rankings inside Australia become a problem as a lot of teams just don’t rank. In the case of the W-League, they often share their websites with their A-League counterparts so it makes them impossible to track. For others, I have to have Foursquare data and these teams don’t play on a daily basis… and I just might not have events in their league covered.