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Foursquare and the AFL

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 8 May, 2010

I’m a little obsessed with foursquare data at the moment and I’m doing this a little early. I’ll probably update this on Tuesday with a new post after the St. Kilda Monday night match. At the moment though, based on the two completed games so far this week and last week, this post answers what team has the largest community of Foursquare users. The surprise is how Collingwood hasn’t run away with this.

	Checkins	Unique Visitors	Checkins / Home	Unique Visitors / Home	Checkins / Away	Unique Visitors / Away	Homeground	Other places
Melbourne Demons	32	21.5	38	25	26	18	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Etihad Stadium
Sydney Swans	33	25	33	25			Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Western Bulldogs	34.5	19	31	13	38	25	Etihad Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Essendon Bombers	31	14	31	14			Etihad Stadium
St. Kilda Saints	31	13	31	13			Etihad Stadium
Carlton Blues	31	10	31	10			Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
Collingwood Magpies	31	10	31	10			Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
North Melbourne Kangaroos	26	18	26	18			Etihad Stadium
West Coast Eagles	10	7	10	7			Subiaco Oval
Fremantle Dockers	10	7	10	7			Subiaco Oval
Port Adelaide Power	14	7	5.5	3.5	31	14	AAMI Stadium	Etihad Stadium
Adelaide Crows	5.5	3.5	5.5	3.5			AAMI Stadium
Geelong Cats	4	2	4	2			Skilled Stadium
Brisbane Lions	33	25			33	25	Gabba	Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Richmond Tigers	4	2			4	2	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Skilled Stadium

Facility	Name	Type	Link	Checkins	Unique Visitors	Mayor	Difference	Difference	Date checked	Home team	Road team
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/281644	968	#REF!	-417965			1-May-10
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/281644	999	496	-417965	31	10	2-May-10	Carlton Blues	Collingwood Magpies
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/281644	1037	521	-417965	38	25	7-May-10	Melbourne Demons	Western Bulldogs
Etihad Stadium	Etihad Stadium	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/306196	652	338	sydlow			27-Apr-10
Etihad Stadium	Etihad Stadium	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/306196	683	351	_hoshi_	31	13	30-Apr-10	St. Kilda Saints	Western Bulldogs
Etihad Stadium	Etihad Stadium	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/306196	709	369	_hoshi_	26	18	1-May-10	North Melbourne Kangaroos	Melbourne Demons
Etihad Stadium	Etihad Stadium	Stadium	http://foursquare.com/venue/306196	740	383	_hoshi_	31	14	8-May-10	Essendon Bombers	Port Adelaide Power
AAMI Stadium	AAMI Stadium	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/1088396	17	15	dlparkinson			27-Apr-10
AAMI Stadium	AAMI Stadium	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/1088396	26	21	dlparkinson	9	6	1-May-10	Adelaide Crows	Port Adelaide Power
AAMI Stadium	Adelaide Oval		http://foursquare.com/venue/1427010	7	4	jasondunstone			28-Apr-10
AAMI Stadium	Adelaide Oval		http://foursquare.com/venue/1427010	9	5	jasondunstone	2	1	1-May-10	Adelaide Crows	Port Adelaide Power
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney Cricket Ground	Cricket	http://foursquare.com/venue/283942	135	103	franksting			27-Apr-10
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/2337521	24	22	kristibarrow			27-Apr-10
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney Cricket Ground	Cricket	http://foursquare.com/venue/283942	178	137	franksting	43	34	1-May-10	Sydney Swans	Brisbane Lions
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/2337521	47	38	kristibarrow	23	16	1-May-10	Sydney Swans	Brisbane Lions
Skilled Stadium	Skilled Stadium		http://foursquare.com/venue/2651796	6	5				1-May-10
Skilled Stadium	Skilled Stadium		http://foursquare.com/venue/2651796	10	7	-774286	4	2	2-May-10	Geelong Cats	Richmond Tigers
Subiaco Oval	Subiaco Oval	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/569404	86	53	flyingblogspot			1-May-10
Subiaco Oval	Subiaco Oval	Football	http://foursquare.com/venue/569404	96	60	flyingblogspot	10	7	2-May-10	West Coast Eagles	Fremantle Dockers

Tags: AAMI Stadium, Adelaide Crows, AFL, Brisbane Lions, Carlton Blues, Collingwood Magpies, Essendon Bombers, Etihad Stadium, foursquare, Fremantle Dockers, Geelong Cats, Melbourne Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos, Port Adelaide Power, Richmond Tigers, Skilled Stadium, St Kilda Saints, Subiaco Oval, Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Swans, West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs Category: AFL, foursquare View Comments

AFL fandom growth on Facebook: Which team is the winner?

Posted by Laura on Monday, 3 May, 2010

Back on March 25, 2010, I collected data regarding the number of fans of the official AFL team Facebook fan pages. It has been a while and I was curious as to which team had the most growth since the last time I looked. Did any team do a really good job picking up fans? Does that have any connection to how well the team did? (There are a whole bunch of other potential factors. I just haven’t looked at them.) The team at the top of the ladder for Facebook fan growth is the Essendom Bombers. The team at the bottom of the ladder is the Adelaide Crows. Teams not included didn’t have official pages on March 25, 2010.

Team	Url	25-Mar-10	3-May-10	Difference
AFL	https://www.facebook.com/AFL	88,546	99,722	11,176
Essendon Bombers	https://www.facebook.com/Essendon	44,511	52,126	7,615
Collingwood Magpies	https://www.facebook.com/collingwoodfc	26,314	31,366	5,052
Western Bulldogs	https://www.facebook.com/Western.Bulldogs	0	4,930	4,930
Fremantle Dockers	https://www.facebook.com/fremantlefootballclub	12,939	17,513	4,574
St. Kilda Saints	https://www.facebook.com/stkfc	21,310	25,106	3,796
Melbourne Demons	https://www.facebook.com/MELBOURNEfc	3,159	6,278	3,119
Geelong Cats	https://www.facebook.com/GeelongCatsInsider	1,632	4,745	3,113
West Coast Eagles	https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles/38862387223	33,501	36,559	3,058
Port Adelaide Power	https://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefootballclub	7,892	10,815	2,923
Carlton Blues	https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarltonFC	12,693	14,932	2,239
Richmond Tigers	https://www.facebook.com/Richmond.FC	4,798	6,626	1,828
North Melbourne Kangaroos	https://www.facebook.com/northkangaroos	9,866	11,678	1,812
Hawthorn Hawks	https://www.facebook.com/hawthornfc	14,342	16,129	1,787
Adelaide Crows	https://www.facebook.com/adelaidecrows	39,546	41,246	1,700

Is there a correlation between a team’s performance so far this season based on their ladder position and the number of new fans? No, the correlation is -0.04002 where the Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions get zero new fans as they do not have a fan page. If those two teams are removed, -0.10666. That still is completely random. The cause for the big increase in fans is not dependent on team performance; other factors must explain the increase in fans.

Tags: Adelaide Crows, AFL, Brisbane Lions, Carlton Blues, Collingwood Magpies, Essendon Bombers, Facebook, Fremantle Dockers, Geelong Cats, Hawthorn Hawks, Melbourne Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos, Port Adelaide Power, Richmond Tigers, St Kilda Saints, Sydney Swans, West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs Category: AFL, Facebook View Comments

australianfootballleague.wikia.com: The AFL wiki community

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 15 April, 2010

australianfootballleague.wikia.com is yet another tiny Wikia wiki dedicated to the AFL. This one has three real articles. Like two of the other AFL wikis on Wikia, it has an article about a team. The team for this wiki, the Geelong Cats, is one not found on the other wikis looked at. It has only eight real edits of which five were made by one individual and the rest were bot created.

Having looked at three small wikis so far, it looks like individuals make small wikis because they are fans of a specific team and then later lose interest and mostly abandon them.

Tags: AFL, Geelong Cats, wikia Category: AFL, wikia View Comments

Facebook groups and fanpages redux

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 31 March, 2010

One of the things I’ve been doing recently is trying to compile a list of fans and members of groups on Facebook. My interest in doing so is to get a general geographic idea of what teams are popular where. I’m also interested in seeing if certain universities, colleges and high schools lean more towards one team or league. Read to that, I’m looking at what universities, colleges and high schools could be deemed the most sports made by the total members of a network.

The problem is that Facebook does not make getting this information easy. I manually go through the lists. I copy/paste to notepad, format it and copy it to Excel. Facebook drops people. An example of this? Western Force. It has 3,128 fans. When I copied and pasted everything, the total people on my list was 1,927. There is a lot of dropping going on here and I’m not certain what effect it has on the results.

These issues regarding totals are one of the most problematic aspects of trying to do any sort of demographic study of online sports fandom that is in any way accurate and capable of duplication.

If you’re interested, based on the following groups and fan pages… The NAB Northern Bullants appreciation society, Townsville McDonald’s Crocodiles, Waikato/BOP Magic Netball, 1,000 people for Tassie Tigers to offer Rana Naved-Ul-Hasan a full Contract, 10,000 people for the tassie tigers to offer Michael Hogan a contract , Aaron Edwards Fan page, ACT Brumbies, act brumbies, Adelaide 36ers, Adelaide 36ers are the greatest team of ANY kind EVER!!, Adelaide 36ers Fan Zone, Adelaide 36ers National Basketball Team, Adelaide Thunderbirds , Barbagallo Perth Heat Baseball Club, Bendigo Bombers Football Club, Bentleigh Cricket Club, Borough Boys, Borough Supporters Club, Bring Allen Iverson to the Adelaide 36ers!, Bring Dusty Rychart back to the Adelaide 36ers ~ beg, plead, grovel ;p, Cairns Taipans , Canberra Raiders, Canterbury Tactix, Carlton Blues FC, Croc Nation, Crocs to take the NBL title, Daniel Jackson – TIGER TUFF!, Eaglehawk Football Netball Club, Early 90′s Perth Wildcats appreciation group, Fire Roster, Fitzroy Reds Football Club, Frankston Dolphins Football club, FRANKSTON DOLPHINS FOOTBALL CLUB, Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995, Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995, Geelong Cats, Go the Perth wildcats , Gold Coast Blaze, Gold Coast Football Club, Greeks who support Richmond F.C the Tigers, I’m a Fitzroy Reds Premiership hero, Law Hawks, Matt Johns to coach the Newcastle Knights in 2010! , Melbourne Tigers, Melbourne Tigers, Melbourne Tigers – Big V Basketball, melbourne tigers all the way in 2008, Melbourne Tigers Basketball Club, Melbourne Tigers cheer squeda east and south ends , Melbourne Tigers NBL HUMMER CHAMPIONS 2007/08, Melbourne Tigers NBL supporters, Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne-based Wests Tigers Fanatics, New South Wales Patriots , New Zealand Breakers, No matter how bad they are, I will still barrack for the Richmond Tigers! , North Ballarat Cricket Club, North Melbourne Football Club, North Melbourne Football Club, Northern Bullants Football Club, Northern Bullants Under 18′s, Northern Mystics, Northern Mystics Fans, Official Gold Coast Blaze, Official Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats (Catties Fans), perth wildcats fans, Perth Wildcats Wildkidz! (:, Port Melbourne Football Club, port melbourne the mighty borough fan club, Pulse Netball, Queensland Bulls, Queensland Bulls Supporters, Queensland Firebirds, Queensland Rams (ABL) Baseball, Queensland Rams Baseball, Sandringham Football Club (Zebras), SAVE OUR MELBOURNE TIGERS NBL TEAM , THIS SEASON., Save Our South Dragons:www. saveourdragons.com, SCONE THOROUGHBREDS RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB, SEABL, Selkirk Roosters – North Ballarat Football Club, South Dragons 2008/09 Nbl Champions, South Melbourne Dragons, Southern Steel, Southern Steel, SUPPORT THE CANTERBURY TACTIX WITH TIC TACS, Sydney Swifts, Tassie Tigers Hockey – Top 4 three years in a row, the fitzroy reds convention for headaches and regrets., The Melbourne Tigers Fan Group, The Official Adelaide 36ers Page, The Official Bendigo Spirit Basketball, Thunderbirds Adelaide Netball Club Appreciation Community, Thunderbirds are GO in the 2009 grand final!, TOWNSVILLE FIRE, Townsville McCafe Fire, Trent Cotchin, Victoria Aces ABL Baseball, Waratahs 2008, Werribee Amateur Football Club, Werribee Football Club , Werribee Tigers FC, West Coast Fever, West Coast Fever, Western Force, Wests Tigers NYC, WNBL – Bendigo Spirit, WNBL – Canberra Capitals, Wollongong Hawks, Wllongong Hawks, Wollongong Roller Hawks, and XXXX gold Queensland bulls!.

All told, there are 3,297 people of the 34,057 people included list a network. There are 1,078 unique networks. If Facebook wasn’t dropping things, the total people included would be 61,340. Given that, the following networks are the most popular:

Network	Total members
Monash	83
University of Melbourne	74
Deakin	67
James Cook	65
State Government of Victoria	56
La Trobe University	50
UWA	49
Australian National	46
RMIT	41
Edith Cowan	40
Curtin	39
Adelaide	35
Canberra Grammar School	33
Kardinia International College	31
Queensland Tech	29
Victoria AU	28
Swinburne	28
Notre Dame AU	26
Canberra	26
Tasmania	25
Christian College	25
Queensland	24
Flinders	24
Belmont High School	24
South Australia	23
Scotch College	22
Griffith	19
Bond	19
UOW	18
The Geelong College	17
Telstra	17
Murdoch	16
Xavier College	14
Marist College Canberra	14
Scone High School	13
Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College	13
Geelong Grammar School	13
Ballarat	13
Wesley College	12
Willetton Senior High School	11
University of Sydney	11
The Friends’ School	11
Presbyterian Ladies’ College	11
Parade College	11
Grovedale College	11
Daramalan College	11
Broadford Secondary College	11
Vermont Secondary College	10
National Australia Bank	10
Catholic College Bendigo	10
Whittlesea Secondary College	9
UNSW	9
University High School	9
Marcellin College	9
John Paul College	9
Charles Sturt University	9
Western Heights College	8
Unley High School	8
Taroona High School	8
St Edmund’s College Canberra	8
Sacred Heart College	8
Pulteney Grammar School	8
Newman College	8
Newcastle	8
Lilydale High School	8
AU Catholic	8
Woodvale Senior High School	7
University of New England	7
The Heights School	7
St Clare’s College	7
Salesian College Rupertswood	7
Sacred Heart AU	7
Padua College	7
Otago	7
Loyola College	7
Frankston High School	7
Emmaus College	7
Cornerstone College	7
Carey Baptist Grammar School	7
BHP Billiton	7
Bendigo Senior Secondary College	7
Balaklava High School	7
Aquinas College	7
UTS	6
St Mary’s Catholic College	6
St Ignatius College, Riverview	6
St Helena Secondary College	6
Saint Louis	6
Oberon High School	6
Mount Scopus College	6
Mount Lawley Sr. High School	6
Mordialloc College	6
IBM	6
Hoppers Crossing Secondary College	6
Deloitte	6
Clonard College	6
Churchlands Senior High School	6
Brentwood Secondary College	6
Birmingham UK	6
Ballarat High School	6
Avila College	6
A N Myer	6
Williamstown High School	5
Whitefriars College	5
Westpac Banking	5
Werribee Secondary College	5
University of Auckland	5
The King’s School	5
The Hutchins School	5
St Norbert College	5
St Francis Xavier College	5
South Fremantle Senior High School	5
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School	5
Patterson River Secondary College	5
North Albany Senior High School	5
Modbury High School	5
Loreto College	5
Lake Ginninderra College	5
La Salle College	5
Kolbe Catholic College	5
Kirwan State School	5
Kent Street Senior High School	5
Horsham College	5
Hale School	5
Glenunga International High School	5
Gingin District High School	5
General Electric	5
Geelong High School	5
Essendon Keilor College	5
Ernst & Young	5
Emerald Secondary College	5
Cheltenham Secondary College	5
Caulfield Grammar School	5
Castlemaine Secondary College	5
Casterton Secondary College	5
Canberra College	5
Calvary Christian College	5
Bacchus Marsh College	5
All Saints’ College	5
Academy of Mary Immaculate	5
Wantirna College	4
Waikato	4
Viewbank College	4
UWS	4
Trinity Grammar School	4
The Don College	4
Strathmore Secondary College	4
St Monica’s College	4
St Brendan – Shaw College	4
Salisbury East High School	4
Saint Ignatius College Geelong	4
Ruyton Girls School	4
Redbank Plains State High School	4
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Australia	4
Newton Moore Senior High School	4
Narrabundah College	4
Montmorency Secondary College	4
Mirrabooka Senior High School	4
Methodist Ladies’ College	4
Mercy Regional College	4
Mercer	4
Melville Senior High School	4
Melbourne Grammar School	4
King�s Christian College	4
Kambrya College	4
John XXIII College	4
Indiana	4
Ho�r Volkskool Heidelberg	4
Hewlett-Packard	4
Haileybury College	4
Greenwood Senior High School	4
Golden Grove High School	4
Gleeson College	4
Fahan School	4
Craigmore High School	4
Concordia Lutheran College	4
Collie Senior High School	4
Clare High School	4
Charles Campbell Secondary School	4
Catholic Regional College	4
Bunbury Senior High School	4
Bunbury Catholic College	4
Brighton Secondary College	4
Brauer College	4
Birkenhead College	4
Ballarat Secondary College	4
Bairnsdale Secondary College	4
Australia	4
Adelaide High School	4
William Ross State High School	3
Victoria Wellington	3
USC	3
University Senior College	3
UIllinois	3
Trinity Christian School	3
Trinity Anglican School	3
The Scots College	3
Sunbury College	3
Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School	3
St. Rose	3
St. Joseph’s College	3
St. Bede’s College	3
St Kevin’s College Toorak	3
St Columba’s College	3
Rutherglen High School	3
Rowville Secondary College	3
Reynella East High School	3
Purdue	3
Pimlico State High School	3
Peterhouse School	3
Oregon	3
Optus	3
Nuriootpa High School	3
Nunawading Christian College	3
Nova Southeastern University	3
Notre Dame College	3
Northcote High School	3
Murray Bridge High School	3
Mount Waverley Secondary College	3
Mornington Secondary College	3
Morley Senior High School	3
Monivae College	3
Melbourne High School	3
Melbourne Girls’ College	3
Melbourne Business School	3
Mandurah Baptist College	3
Macquarie Group	3
Macquarie	3
MacKillop College	3
Lyc�e Jean Monnet	3
Loxton High School	3
Levi Strauss & Co.	3
Leeton High School	3
Lake Tuggeranong College	3
KPMG	3
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang	3
Karabar High School	3
John Forrest Senior High School	3
Immanuel College	3
Illawarra Sports High School	3
Hutt Valley High School	3
Highvale Secondary College	3
Hallett Cove School	3
Goulburn High School	3
Gladstone Park Secondary College	3
Forrestfield Senior High School	3
Faith Lutheran School	3
Emmanuel College	3
Edmund Rice College	3
Doncaster Secondary College	3
Denmark High School	3
Curtin Bentley	3
Coastal Carolina	3
Chisholm Catholic College	3
Central Queensland	3
Camberwell High School	3
Burdekin Catholic High School	3
Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School	3
Brighton Secondary School	3
Braemar College	3
Boronia Heights College	3
Bellarine Secondary College	3
Beaconhills College	3
Bayswater Secondary College	3
Baylor	3
Balwyn High School	3
Ballarat Grammar School	3
Avonside Girls’ High School	3
Avondale College	3
Ave Maria College	3
Auckland Grammar School	3
Aberfoyle Park High School	3
Wynyard Composite High School	2
Woodcroft College	2
Westville Boys’ High School	2
Westminster School	2
Western Port Secondary College	2
Wellington Secondary College	2
UVA	2
USF	2
University of Victoria	2
University of Toronto	2
University of Limerick	2
Universidad Aut�noma de Chile	2
Uni. Reading	2
UGA	2
Tyndale Christian School	2
Trinity College	2
Townsville State High School	2
Toorak College	2
The Peninsula School	2
The Kilmore International School	2
The Cathedral School, Townsville	2
The Armidale School	2
Templestowe College	2
Temple Christian College	2
Takapuna Grammar School	2
Taieri College	2
Swan Hills School	2
Swan Christian College	2
St. Philip’s College	2
St. Michael’s Grammar School	2
St. Hilda’s Collegiate School	2
St Patrick’s College	2
St Joseph�s College	2
St Hilda�s Anglican School for Girls	2
St Francis Xavier’s College	2
Southern Cross	2
South Torrance High School	2
SLCC	2
Shalom College	2
Sandringham College	2
Salvation Army	2
salesian college chadstone	2
Saint Ignatius College	2
Rostrevor College	2
Rollins	2
Rockingham Senior High School	2
Rangitoto College	2
QR	2
Presentation College Windsor	2
Pinjarra Senior High School	2
Penola Catholic College	2
Pennant Hills High School	2
Penn State	2
Pakenham Secondary College	2
Oxley College	2
Overnewton Anglican Community College	2
Orana School	2
NIACC	2
Nazareth College	2
Mowbray College	2
Mount View High School	2
Mill Park Secondary College	2
Michigan	2
Merici College	2
Melbourne Girls Grammar School	2
Mazenod College	2
Marathon High	2
Maranatha Christian College	2
Marais Viljoen High School	2
Mandurah Catholic College	2
Luther College	2
Lowther Hall Anglican School	2
Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College	2
Lockyer District High School	2
Launceston College	2
Lakeside Secondary School	2
Kyneton Secondary College	2
Kurnai College	2
Kormilda College	2
Kooweerup Secondary College	2
Kooringal High School	2
Koonung Secondary College	2
Knox	2
Kinross Wolarai School	2
Kew High School	2
Keilor Downs College	2
Kadina High School	2
John Septimus Roe School	2
James Cook Cairns	2
Ivanhoe Grammar School	2
Ho�rskool Waterkloof	2
Ho�rskool Kempton Park	2
Ho�rskool Dr. EG Jansen	2
Ho�r Tegniese Skool Middelburg	2
Heywood Secondary College	2
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	2
Hawker College	2
Harvest Christian School	2
Gympie State High School	2
Guilford Young College	2
Green Bay High School	2
Grand Valley State	2
Governor Stirling High School	2
Government of South Australia	2
Gold Creek High School	2
Glenfield College	2
Glen Waverley Secondary College	2
Gladstone High School	2
Georges River College	2
Geneva	2
Genazzano FCJ College	2
Ford Motor Company	2
Flora Hill Secondary College	2
FCJ College Benalla	2
Fairhill Christian School	2
Esperance Senior High School	2
Erindale College	2
Endeavour High School	2
Eltham High School	2
Elizabeth College	2
Elisabeth Murdoch College	2
Eastern Hills Senior High School	2
East Doncaster Secondary College	2
E. Illinois	2
Duncraig Senior High School	2
Delaware	2
Cummins	2
Croydon Secondary College	2
Creek Street Christian College	2
Corinda State High School	2
Como Secondary College	2
Cohuna Secondary College	2
Christian Outreach College	2
CBC Fremantle	2
Catholic College Wodonga	2
Carrum Downs Secondary College	2
Carine Senior High School	2
Canterbury	2
Canning Vale College	2
Camberwell Grammar School	2
Busselton Senior High School	2
Brisbane State High School	2
Brackenfell High School	2
Blackfriars Priory School	2
Blackburn High School	2
Belridge Senior High School	2
Bellville High School	2
Bayfield High School	2
Ballarat & Clarendon College	2
Baimbridge College	2
Australian International School	2
Austereo	2
Assumption College	2
Ardrossan Area School	2
Alfred Deakin High School	2
Albury High School	2
AIESEC	2
Afrikaanse Ho�r Seunskool	2
ADFA	2
Aberystwyth University	2
-???????? ??????? ???????????? ????????	1
Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi	1
Yeshivah College	1
Yale Secondary School	1
Xavier High School	1
Wyoming	1
WVU	1
WTAMU	1
WPI	1
Woodville High School	1
Wollongong High School	1
Wisconsin	1
Wirral Met	1
Winthrop	1
Wintec	1
Wilsonville High School	1
Willyama High School	1
William Angliss Institute of TAFE	1
William & Mary	1
Wilder Junior – Senior High School	1
Whyalla High School	1
Whitley Secondary School	1
Wheelers Hill Secondary College	1
Western Texas College	1
Western Branch High	1
Western Academy of Beijing	1
Westbourne Grammar School	1
West Vancouver Secondary School	1
West Senior High School	1
West Hill Secondary School	1
Wesley Methodist School	1
Wesley DE	1
Wavell State High School	1
Waubonsie Valley High School	1
Waterloo	1
Warwick State High School	1
Warwick Senior High School	1
Warrandyte High School	1
Wardle High School	1
Wanganui High School	1
Walkden High School	1
Wahlert High School	1
W. Kentucky	1
Vodafone	1
Visual Jazz	1
Villanova College	1
Villanova	1
Vienna International School	1
Victory Christian College	1
Valparaiso	1
Valley Forge Christian	1
Valencia	1
UWO	1
Utah Valley University	1
Usana Health Sciences	1
Ursula Frayne Catholic College	1
UNL	1
University School	1
University of South Pacific	1
University of Minnesota Morris	1
University of Louisville	1
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AFL on Facebook

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 25 March, 2010

What’s the most popular AFL team on Facebook? That really does depend on how you measure it.

The following table has a column for total people listing a team as an interest, total number of members of the largest fan page dedicated to a team, total number of fans of the largest page dedicated to a team and the grand total. This information was collected in the past three days.

Team	Interest	Page	Group	Total
Collingwood Magpies	59800	80	7969	67849
West Coast Eagles	26020	33501	5094	64615
Carlton Blues	58120	317	1626	60063
Adelaide Crows	50020	1579	5827	57426
Fremantle Dockers	43660	96	3625	47381
Sydney Swans	21260	18094	4737	44091
Hawthorn Hawks	21220	2602	6595	30417
Essendon Bombers	27920	248	1989	30157
Richmond Tigers	13960	11727	2782	28469
Geelong Cats	15760	5092	3976	24828
Brisbane Lions	10940	10556	2302	23798
St. Kilda Saints	15480	317	4281	20078
Port Adelaide Power	6100	9766	3157	19023
North Melbourne Kangaroos	9120	4314	2420	15854
Western Bulldogs	2740	4745	7295	14780
Melbourne Demons	5940	4057	4003	14000
Gold Coast Football Club	1200	1720	66	2986

AFL on Facebook

Team Interest Page Group Total

Collingwood Magpies 59800 80 7969 67849

West Coast Eagles 26020 33501 5094 64615

Carlton Blues 58120 317 1626 60063

Adelaide Crows 50020 1579 5827 57426

Fremantle Dockers 43660 96 3625 47381

Sydney Swans 21260 18094 4737 44091

Hawthorn Hawks 21220 2602 6595 30417

Essendon Bombers 27920 248 1989 30157

Richmond Tigers 13960 11727 2782 28469

Geelong Cats 15760 5092 3976 24828

Brisbane Lions 10940 10556 2302 23798

St. Kilda Saints 15480 317 4281 20078

Port Adelaide Power 6100 9766 3157 19023

North Melbourne Kangaroos 9120 4314 2420 15854

Western Bulldogs 2740 4745 7295 14780

Melbourne Demons 5940 4057 4003 14000

Gold Coast Football Club 1200 1720 66 2986

And then I completed this and realized the biggest fan pages I had? They weren’t the official ones. Time to get the official ones, where the total fans are much bigger, and then update.

Green: Indicates official Facebook fanpage has the most fans.
Blue: Indicates a page not linked on the official page has the most fans.
Red: Indicates an official Facebook fanpage was not found to be linked to on the Club’s official site.
Black: AFL does not link to an official page for the team.

Fixed. As an American, I’m used to professional team names being City Mascot. When I search, this tends to be my default mode of searching. It can screw up results and I have to remember to search all variations to make sure this doesn’t happen. When I was just looking for biggest, I didn’t. Woe. But anyway, these results should hopefully be a bit more accurate. I went to every team’s official site that was linked on the AFL’s site. On the official site, I looked for their official Facebook fanpage accounts. Then I took that information and added it to the above table to get a more accurate picture. If an unofficial fanpage had more fans than the official one? I left the unofficial one. I’ve color coded that chart to make easy to see where I did that.

Tags: Adelaide Crows, AFL, Brisbane Lions, Carlton Blues, Collingwood Magpies, Essendon Bombers, Facebook, Fremantle Dockers, Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Football Club, Hawthorn Hawks, Melbourne Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos, Port Adelaide Power, Richmond Tigers, St Kilda Saints, Sydney Swans, West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs Category: AFL, Facebook View Comments

YouTube and Australian sports

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010

I’ve been reading a number of blogs including floatingsheep.org and Pete Warden’s blog. Both of them occassionally have very pretty charts, the likes of which I would like to make on my own to geographic map patterns for Australian sports culture. Some of the maps that geographers do to look at social patterns are just fascinating in the extreme.

One of these geography related maps looked at YouTube. This inspired me to look at YouTube. I quickly realized that for big, popular teams, looking at YouTube would not be very useful. I do all my data mining by hand. (This includes looking up things like Brizzy and Wellywood after getting the data tableized to be able to identify a person as living in Brisbane, Queensland and Wellington, New Zealand.) It is time consuming. For smaller teams though, it seemed like the sample was small enough that I could get some interesting data off YouTube. This only includes videos, not playlists. At a later time, this may change.

This is both correct and incorrect. It turns out that most people are not listing their hometown on YouTube. They will often list their country though.

Anyway, the methodology I decided to use for YouTube data gathering was as follows: Search the team name. Find videos that pertain directly to that team. Look at and record the profile information for all individuals who have a video which mention that team. This should give an idea as to league interest and team interest, though not always. You can get say a Geelong Cats fan who uploads a video where the Geelong Cats play the Hawthorn Hawks and because of how I’m searching, they’d be included for both teams. It can be make interests slightly misleading, though fans of both teams will probably watch a video labeled that way.

One problem I’ve discovered (and I’m starting with the least popular teams first) involves the Geelong Cats. I’ve mentioned them before as they are problematic in that their VFL team shares the same name. Unlike LiveJournal and bebo where interest search makes it hard/impossible to separate the two, it is a bit more doable on YouTube as all you have to do is add a VFL to the search. Except, well, the VFL was the precursor to the AFL and there are a fair number of videos for the VFL Geelong Cats in the days before the AFL existed. I can separate these out a bit… but I’m opting not to at the moment. If a video mentions the VFL Geelong Cats in the days before the AFL, I’ll count the person who uploaded it under both the AFL and VFL.

I feel like I should almost be recording information about specific videos on YouTube but that doesn’t feel practical. It might be worth noting the total number of videos like I’m noting the information about mailing list volume for Yahoo!Groups. I may eventually do that, but at the moment, it isn’t a priority. I’m more interested in demographic information of people uploading videos than in the history of these videos themselves.

Tags: AFL, Geelong Cats, VFL, YouTube Category: YouTube View Comments

Problem league is problem: VFL

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 11 March, 2010

I’ve mentioned the name problem in a few posts before. One league I hadn’t looked at or gathered data before today was the VFL. There are a few feeder teams in the VFL that share the name of their AFL counterparts. This includes the Collingwood Magpies and the Geelong cats. As it is impossible to distinguish the AFL fans from the VFL fans, I’m going to assume that all fans are primarily fans of the AFL based team. Exceptions except for Twitter, where the account says VFL. Other exceptions would include groups where profile information could indicate allegiance to the VFL. For interest based listings though, these VFL teams which share a name with the AFL will be listed under the corresponding AFL teams.

Tags: AFL, Collingwood Magpies, Geelong Cats, VFL Category: VFL View Comments

Version 2: Most popular Australian athlete and team related Twitter accounts by total followers

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010

Yesterday, I made a post about the most popular Australian athlete, league and team related Twitter accounts.

On Twitter, @anthonyalsop pointed me to a list of Australian athletes on Twitter he had created. I had missed quite a few on his list and some of those accounts led me to lists where I found additional athletes, teams and leagues. All told, I added about 61 new rows of data. There are a few repeats from yesterday’s list as I updated some numbers. (Historical twitter growth for athletes would be interesting to look at and there are tools for just that. It is a project for a different day. Maybe.) There doesn’t appear to be much change.

Things to remember with this list: It does not include athletes who do not play for team based sports. Swimmers, golfers, tennis players, surfers and race car drivers are not on the list. It also does not include Australian athletes playing for teams outside of Australia. This includes cyclists (who are probably the most popular Australian athletes that I can find) as they often compete for teams outside Australia. It does not include Australian NBA and WNBA players. It also does not include retired Australian athletes, unless they are now involved in a management role with a specific team. National teams are included but players are generally sorted by their other playing affiliation. This list does include athletes and teams from outside Australia when the league has teams from other countries. Thus, South Africa is represented with its Super 14 teams and New Zealand is included with a variety of teams in leagues such as the NRL, Super 14 and the NBL.

First class cricket : New South Wales Blues : PH408 (unofficial) -10,729 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Wests Tigers : LoteTuqiri (unofficial) -4,957 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) : VictorMatfield (unofficial) -4,559 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : NRL : NRL -4,231 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : Collingwood_FC -3,980 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : Essendon Bombers : Essendon_FC -3,808 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Adelaide Crows : Adelaide_FC -3,696 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Essendon Bombers : JobeWatson (unofficial) -3,523 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : Collingwood_FC -3,506 (30-Dec-09)

Super 14 : Natal Sharks : JohnSmit123 (unofficial) -3,412 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Wellington Hurricanes : Hurricanesrugby -3,395 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Sydney Swans : sydneyswans -3,160 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Essendon Bombers : AngusMonfries (unofficial) -3,052 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : jimstynes (unofficial) -3,004 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : harry_o (unofficial) -2,712 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : harry_o (unofficial) -2,703 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : St. Kilda Saints : stkildafc -2,617 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Wellington Hurricanes : neyza3 (unofficial) -2,446 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Gold Coast Titans : mat_rogers6 (unofficial) -2,219 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : St. Kilda Saints : stkildafc -2,214 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Carlton Blues : Carlton_FC -1,932 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Geelong Cats : Geelong_FC (unofficial) -1,856 (30-Dec-09)

Super 14 : Canterbury Crusaders : mornesteyn (unofficial) -1,631 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Gold Coast Titans : GCTitans -1,616 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) : nzwarriors (unofficial) -1,533 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : St. George Illawarra Dragons : RealBigDell (unofficial) -1,438 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : MVFCVIDEOS (unofficial) -1,432 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : North Queensland Cowboys : northqldcowboys -1,403 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Brisbane Broncos : BrisBroncosClub -1,365 (2-Jan-10)

AFL : Hawthorn Hawks : Hawks_AFL (unofficial) -1,336 (9-Mar-10)

First class cricket : New South Wales Blues : ClarkeVC (unofficial) -1,230 (10-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : nathan2jones (unofficial) -1,216 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : gomvfc -1,185 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : Wests Tigers : Wests_Tigers (unofficial) -1,165 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Durban Sharks (Coastal Sharks)(Natal Sharks) : sharksrugby -1,159 (9-Mar-10)

National team : Socceroos : socceroos_news (unofficial) -1,099 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : jarryd_hayne (unofficial) -1,078 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Richmond Tigers : Richmond_FC -1,062 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : North Melbourne Kangaroos : northkangaroos -1,052 (30-Dec-09)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : CamSchwab (unofficial) -961 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Port Adelaide Power : PAFC -946 (30-Dec-09)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : Adelaide36ers -908 (8-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : Melbourne Vixens : MelbourneVixens -904 (12-Jan-10)

First class cricket : Victorian Bushrangers : Bushrangers -895 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Manly Sea Eagles : manlyseaeagles -888 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : PirtekParraEels (unofficial) -853 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : DemonsHQ -841 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : PeterDaicos (unofficial) -838 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : Hawthorn Hawks : HawthornFC -823 (30-Dec-09)

NRL : Sydney Roosters : sydroosters (unofficial) -800 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : South Sydney Rabbitohs : SSFCRABBITOHS -761 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Wellington Hurricanes : Powza13 (unofficial) -719 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Canterbury Crusaders : crusadersrugby -717 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Brisbane Lions : ALFbrisbane (unofficial) -690 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Central Coast Mariners Football Club : LawrieMcKinna (unofficial) -681 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : West Coast Eagles : WCEofficial -671 (30-Dec-09)

NRL : Penrith Panthers : penrithpanthers (unofficial) -644 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : North Queensland Fury FC : nqfuryfc -627 (5-Jan-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : DemonsHQ -624 (30-Dec-09)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : parramatta_eels -618 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : South Sydney Rabbitohs : rabbitohs (unofficial) -617 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Melbourne Tigers : Follow24Hodge (unofficial) -612 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Melbourne Storm : MelbourneStorm_ (unofficial) -605 (8-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Queensland Reds : QuadeCooper (unofficial) -594 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Cape Town Stormers (Western Stormers) : THESTORMERS -593 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Wollongong Hawks : wollongonghawks -585 (10-Mar-10)

First class cricket : New South Wales Blues : NBRACKEN142 (unofficial) -577 (10-Mar-10)

NBL : Wollongong Hawks : wollongonghawks -572 (6-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Queensland Reds : Reds_Rugby -560 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : collingwoodnews (unofficial) -545 (8-Mar-10)

Super 14 : New South Wales Waratahs : HSBCWaratahs -504 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : West Coast Eagles : wingsofperth (unofficial) -503 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : New Zealand Breakers : johnrillie (unofficial) -474 (6-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Queensland Reds : RedsRugby (unofficial) -460 (3-Jan-10)

NRL : Melbourne Storm : MelbStormRLC (unofficial) -458 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Perth Wildcats : perthwildcats -457 (6-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : adrianleijer (unofficial) -454 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : South Sydney Rabbitohs : therabbitohs (unofficial) -448 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : mitchlangerak (unofficial) -445 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : St. Kilda Saints : njbrown17 (unofficial) -437 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : ACT Brumbies : BrumbiesRugby -436 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) : thenzwarriors -434 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : South Dragons : Joeingles7 (unofficial) -431 (6-Mar-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : FremantleFC (unofficial) -427 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : North Melbourne Kangaroos : andrewswallow (unofficial) -417 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Central Coast Mariners Football Club : LawrieMcKinna -414 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : Gold Coast Titans : AshHarrison1 (unofficial) -410 (9-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : Melbourne Vixens : SharelleVixens -400 (12-Jan-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : victoryinmelb -392 (5-Jan-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : Freo_Dockers (unofficial) -388 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : bigdyman (unofficial) -376 (8-Mar-10)

A-League : Adelaide United : adelaideunited -376 (5-Jan-10)

A-League : Wellington Phoenix : wgtnphoenixfc -376 (5-Jan-10)

AFL : Gold Coast Football Club : GoldCoastFC -373 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Brisbane Lions : AFLbrisbanelion -363 (30-Dec-09)

National team : Socceroos : Socceroos -353 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Gold Coast Titans : lukeodwyer (unofficial) -348 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Newcastle Jets : newcastle_jets -338 (5-Jan-10)

Super 14 : Natal Sharks : KeeganDaniel (unofficial) -333 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : St. George Illawarra Dragons : mighty_dragons (unofficial) -316 (9-Mar-10)

Basketball Australia : Australian Boomers : aussieboomers -307 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Brisbane Roar : BNERoar (unofficial) -300 (5-Jan-10)

A-League : Sydney FC : SFCNews (unofficial) -297 (5-Jan-10)

A-League : Brisbane Roar : BNERoar (unofficial) -296 (3-Jan-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : PlanetEels (unofficial) -293 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : West Coast Eagles : WestCoastEagles (unofficial) -291 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Melbourne Tigers : Wortho33 (unofficial) -285 (6-Mar-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : Fremantle_FC -282 (30-Dec-09)

NBL : Wollongong Hawks : milisimic (unofficial) -272 (8-Mar-10)

First class cricket : Tassie Tigers : crickettas -271 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Brisbane Broncos : BrisbaneBronco (unofficial) -270 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks : SharksOnline (unofficial) -263 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : TsvCrocs -259 (6-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : TsvCrocs -259 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Perth Wildcats : nickmarvin (unofficial) -251 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : Hawthorn Hawks : LanceFranklin (unofficial) -250 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : chomicide (unofficial) -237 (6-Mar-10)

NBL : Cairns Taipans : Dusty_Rychart (unofficial) -234 (8-Mar-10)

A-League : Adelaide United : adelaidereds -231 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : blueandgoldarmy (unofficial) -225 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : MelbourneFC (unofficial) -223 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Brisbane Roar : brisbaneroar -221 (3-Jan-10)

NRL : Wests Tigers : beauryan_winger (unofficial) -215 (9-Mar-10)

First class cricket : Queensland Bulls : andrew_symonds (unofficial) -215 (10-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : Queensland Firebirds : laurafirebirds (unofficial) -213 (3-Jan-10)

NSW Premier League : Sydney Olympic : MarkBosnich (unofficial) -208 (9-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : Adelaide Thunderbirds : NatTbirds -205 (12-Jan-10)

NRL : Canberra Raiders : RaidersCanberra -202 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : West Coast Eagles : MitchJbrown17 (unofficial) -198 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Perth Glory : PerthGlory_FC -190 (5-Jan-10)

First class cricket : New South Wales Blues : eddiecowan (unofficial) -183 (10-Mar-10)

NBL : New Zealand Breakers : oscarforman (unofficial) -177 (6-Mar-10)

A-League : Sydney FC : SydneyFC0910 -174 (5-Jan-10)

Netball Victoria : Netball Victoria : netballvic -174 (12-Jan-10)

First class cricket : South Australian Redbacks (Southern Redbacks) : RedbacksT20 -173 (8-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : New South Wales Swifts : SusanSwifts -160 (12-Jan-10)

NBL : Perth Wildcats : TheRealSchensh (unofficial) -154 (6-Mar-10)

NBL : Perth Wildcats : TheRealSchensh (unofficial) -154 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : rustyhinder (unofficial) -153 (6-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : victorytwit (unofficial) -144 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : 1eyedeel (unofficial) -143 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Essendon Bombers : essendonfc (unofficial) -143 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Melbourne Rebels : melbournerebels -141 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Gold Coast Football Club : GoldCoastFC -139 (30-Dec-09)

WNBL : WNBL : -138 (10-Mar-10)

NRL : Brisbane Broncos : broncosbigfan (unofficial) -137 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : ACT Brumbies : Hoilesy (unofficial) -133 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Brisbane Lions : AFLBrisbaneFC -126 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : South Sydney Rabbitohs : benross23 (unofficial) -124 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Western Australia Force (Western Force) : s14_force -118 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : jgovereasy (unofficial) -110 (6-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : jordiemck (unofficial) -102 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Central Cheetahs (Vodacom Cheetahs) : VodacomCheetahs -102 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Hawthorn Hawks : bmsew (unofficial) -100 (9-Mar-10)

VFL : Casey Scorpions : CaseyScorpions -100 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Sydney Swans : BionicSwan (unofficial) -99 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : North Melbourne Kangaroos : Marcus__White (unofficial) -99 (9-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Queensland Reds : s14_queensland (unofficial) -99 (3-Jan-10)

First class cricket : Victorian Bushrangers : petersiddle (unofficial) -99 (10-Mar-10)

NRL : Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks : Fergo1990 (unofficial) -97 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Wests Tigers : fakebrycegibbs (unofficial) -93 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Gold Coast United : GCUSC -92 (5-Jan-10)

NRL : Brisbane Broncos : broncobasher (unofficial) -91 (9-Mar-10)

Rugby League/State of Origin : Queensland Maroons : QLD_Maroons -91 (3-Jan-10)

ANZ Championship : New South Wales Swifts : nswswifts -90 (12-Jan-10)

VFL : North Ballarat Roosters : NB_Roosters -90 (9-Mar-10)

Rugby League/State of Origin : New South Wales Blues : NSWRL -88 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : DarrenNg8 (unofficial) -86 (6-Mar-10)

A-League : Melbourne Victory : mvfcfanzone -84 (5-Jan-10)

NSW Premier League : Sydney United : addsie (unofficial) -83 (8-Mar-10)

Super 14 : Queensland Reds : ezytaylor (unofficial) -83 (9-Mar-10)

Australia Athletics : Australian Flames (national team) : australianflame -83 (9-Mar-10)

A-League : Central Coast Mariners Football Club : CCMarinersFC (unofficial) -82 (5-Jan-10)

NBL : New Zealand Breakers : NZBreakers -79 (9-Mar-10)

First class cricket : Queensland Bulls : qldcricket -72 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : JoshJenkins24 (unofficial) -72 (6-Mar-10)

Netball Australia : Netball Australia : NetballAust -72 (12-Jan-10)

Netball Australia : Australian Diamonds (national team) : AussieDiamonds -71 (12-Jan-10)

ANZ Championship : West Coast Fever : SusanWCFever -66 (12-Jan-10)

Gridiron Australia Nationals : WA Raiders : fatloaf (unofficial) -65 (8-Mar-10)

Gridiron Australia Nationals : Perth Blitz : fatloaf (unofficial) -65 (8-Mar-10)

ANZ Championship : Adelaide Thunderbirds : AdelaideTBirds -62 (12-Jan-10)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : BenFitz (unofficial) -62 (6-Mar-10)

NRL : St. George Illawarra Dragons : jsaffy (unofficial) -60 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Western Bulldogs : ccaallward (unofficial) -57 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : 36ers (unofficial) -51 (6-Mar-10)

Semi Professional Basketball League : Semi Professional Basketball League : SEABL -50 (10-Mar-10)

A-League : Sydney FC : SydneyFC -44 (5-Jan-10)

NBL : South (Melbourne) Dragons : SAVEOURDRAGONS (unofficial) -44 (10-Mar-10)

NBL : Sydney Kings : sydneykings -43 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : Collingwood Magpies : VictoriaParkHC (unofficial) -42 (8-Mar-10)

NRL : Balmain Tigers : tigers1908 (unofficial) -42 (9-Mar-10)

WNBL : Dandenong Jayco Rangers : jennaohea (unofficial) -42 (10-Mar-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : ryanmcrowley (unofficial) -41 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Gold Coast Titans : Aaron_Cannings (unofficial) -41 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Newcastle Knights : Corypato (unofficial) -41 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : matesOmelbourne (unofficial) -39 (9-Mar-10)

NRL : Manly Sea Eagles : gorgeousgrose (unofficial) -39 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Richmond Tigers : yellow_n_black (unofficial) -38 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : Kegs42 (unofficial) -38 (6-Mar-10)

AFL : Essendon Bombers : bomberblitz (unofficial) -37 (9-Mar-10)

Claxton Shield : Barbagallo Perth Heat : PerthHeat -35 (3-Jan-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : willo43 (unofficial) -35 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Gold Coast Blaze : Vandy21 (unofficial) -33 (6-Mar-10)

NBL : Gold Coast Blaze : Vandy21 (unofficial) -33 (8-Mar-10)

AFL : Melbourne Demons : demonwiki (unofficial) -33 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Wollongong Hawks : danjackson9 (unofficial) -32 (8-Mar-10)

Netball New South Wales : : Sydney_Netball -31 (12-Jan-10)

AFL : St. Kilda Saints : RWBFooty (unofficial) -26 (9-Mar-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : briansham (unofficial) -22 (9-Mar-10)

Netball New South Wales : Petersham RUFC Netball Club : PetershamNetbal -22 (12-Jan-10)

Brisbane Netball Association : ACE Netball Club : ACENetball -21 (12-Jan-10)

WNBL : Dandenong Jayco Rangers : JaycoRangers -21 (10-Mar-10)

Plenty Valley Netball Association : Orcas Netball : Orcas_Netball -20 (12-Jan-10)

NRL : Parramatta Eels : parraeels (unofficial) -19 (9-Mar-10)

Basketball Australia: Australian Opals: AustralianOpals – 19 (9-Mar-10)

NSW Premier League : Manly United : ManlyUnited -18 (8-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : ToffCedar (unofficial) -17 (8-Mar-10)

VFL : Port Melbourne Borough : BoroughBoy (unofficial) -14 (9-Mar-10)

NBL : Townsville Crocodiles : cameronwhiting (unofficial) -13 (6-Mar-10)

AFL : Fremantle Dockers : bc8977 (unofficial) -10 (9-Mar-10)

WNBL : Logan Thunder : loganthunder -8 (10-Mar-10)

NBL : Adelaide 36ers : brad_393 (unofficial) -5 (8-Mar-10)

Gridiron Australia Nationals : Perth Blitz : perthblitz -1 (9-Mar-10)If there is anyone I missed, or anything that really surprised you, let me know.

Updated this list on the 11th to include the Australian Opals thanks to a comment by @SportingSheilas.

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Most popular Australian athlete and team related Twitter accounts by total followers

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010

An updated version of this list can be found at Version 2: Most popular Australian athlete and team related Twitter accounts by total followers.

This is sorted by total number of followers. If an account is tagged (unofficial), it indicates that it is not the official account; it belongs to management, a player or a fansite. The list includes teams from most of the major sports leagues in Australia. Teams that play in those leagues that are not from Australia have also been included. Players were only counted as belonging to a team if they currently play for it. (Some players that are on NRL player lists have gone to play in Europe. They aren’t included.) The date that the information was collected is also included as these numbers actively change over time. If some one/team/organization is listed twice, it is because the data was collected on multiple dates.