Posts Tagged NBL

Brisbane Bullets on Yahoo!Groups

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 9 February, 2010

Like the Adelaide 36ers, there is one group on Yahoo!Groups dedicated to the Brisbane Bullets: BrisbaneBullets.  It was created on March 2, 2007 and has three members. It can be found in the Australia category. Unlike the 36ers list, this group has some posting, the first of which was made on November 4, 2008.  Sadly, all this activity is spam related from two people.  It looks like the founder never posted.

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Adelaide 36ers on Yahoo!Groups

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 9 February, 2010

I’ve not been updating here much of late because of some real life issues.  Fun fun. If anyone wants a copy of the data I have so far, please let me know.

That said, I searched for the Adelaide 36ers on Yahoo!Groups.  There is one list dedicated to the team: 36ers. It was created on March 19, 2003.  It has one member and there have never been any posts to the list.  The list appears in the general basketball category.

Even with one member, the community size on Yahoo!Groups is bigger than that of the LiveJournal clones.

It will be interesting to see how the size of the community here compares to the other NBL teams.

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NBL Facebook team fandom by city and state

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 3 February, 2010

This post is similar to the one for the ANZ Championship where I went to Facebook, found all the relevant fanpages and groups for a team, got their member lists, identified the city or country that a network was based out of and then counted added those together. This collection of teams is much, much bigger with about 200 cities or so and Microsoft MapPoint didn’t do a very good job as it missed 119 cities when Cairns and the Gold Coast are excluded. This makes things a bit tricky when trying to determine the geographic distribution of the community on Facebook. (Added to that, Map Point doesn’t want to put Cairns and the Gold Coast on the same map.)

One thing to note before looking at this, I’ve again excluded non-Australian and non-Kiwi members. If I was doing work for these teams professionally though? I would really target international student populations at the major universities and at high schools where there are high school exchange students. It looks like these fans account for a fair amount of fans on Facebook. Once they leave Australia though, those fans begin to lose value as the chance to monetize them is much less effective. They can add numbers to official Facebook fan pages but they aren’t likely to generate revenue. If a team’s goal is to convert people into potential ticket buyers, this is a problem. (For leagues such as the NRL and AFL where there is an international television agreement, I’d advise them make occasional posts reminding their non-native audience how they can tune in, encourage them to demand that their local satellite and cable providers give them access to these games to watch.)

Onwards with maps…

NBL  fandom by state

Overview map

NBL fandom by state

220
110
0
Adelaide 36ers
Cairns Taipans
Gold Coast Blaze
Melbourne Tigers
New Zealand Breakers
Perth Wildcats
South Melbourne Dragons
Townsville Crocodiles
Wollongong Hawks

NBL by  City

Overview map

NBL by city

70
8
1
Adelaide 36ers
Melbourne Tigers
New Zealand Breakers
Perth Wildcats
South Melbourne Dragons
Townsville Crocodiles
Wollongong Hawks

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ANZ Championship on Facebook’s fanpages and groups

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 30 January, 2010

bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones all have relatively small communities when compared to Facebook. It bothers me sometimes because to understand the size and shape of the online fan community on popular social networks almost requires looking at the site if I want to be accurate. The data you get from the advertising information is interesting but limited. Looking at fanpage and group membership is even more limited but at least you can get names and a better feel for location. I decided to do that for ANZ Championship teams. (There are just too many NRL and AFL and even NBL related groups for me to want to tackle at the moment.) I found the following list of groups and fan pages:

  • Adelaide Thunderbirds – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Thunderbirds Adelaide Netball Club Appreciation Community – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Thunderbirds are GO in the 2009 grand final! – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Canterbury Tactix – ANZ Championship: Canterbury Tactix
  • SUPPORT THE CANTERBURY TACTIX WITH TIC TACS – ANZ Championship: Canterbury Tactix
  • Pulse Netball – ANZ Championship: Central Pulse
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Northern Mystics – ANZ Championship: Northern Mystics
  • Northern Mystics Fans – ANZ Championship: Northern Mystics
  • Queensland Firebirds – ANZ Championship: Queensland Firebirds
  • Southern Steel – ANZ Championship: Southern Steel
  • southern steel – ANZ Championship: Southern Steel
  • Sydney Swifts – ANZ Championship: Sydney Swifts
  • Waikato/BOP Magic Netball – ANZ Championship: Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
  • West Coast Fever – ANZ Championship: West Coast Fever
  • West Coast Fever – ANZ Championship: West Coast Fever
  • Some of these groups have as many as 1,000 members and some have as few as 13. I went looked at the membership list, found the people who belonged to specific networks, identified the location of that network and then created a map based on those. Some cases, like for corporations, have no city specific location and some of the schools on the list are affiliated with bigger towns near them. The map below differs a fair bit from the similar map for to the one for bebo, blogger and Facebook. The major difference? Regional fannishness is much, more more apparent on Facebook.

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    Overview map

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    40
    6
    1
    Adelaide Thunderbirds
    Canterbury Tactix
    Melbourne Vixens
    Northern Mystics
    Queensland Firebirds
    West Coast Fever

    ANZ Championship on Facebook: New Zealand


    Overview map

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    40
    6
    1
    Adelaide Thunderbirds
    Canterbury Tactix
    Melbourne Vixens
    Northern Mystics
    Queensland Firebirds
    West Coast Fever

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