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Data dump: Australian sport on YouTube

Posted by Laura on Monday, 25 October, 2010

This is another data dump. I have been getting data for these data dumps to begin to get an idea as to the size and shape of the various communities on these networks. In several cases, I have demographic data from earlier dates related to these networks. I can compare who is uploading and contributing if the numbers differ. For smaller data sets, I can compare to see if the membership changed: James left but John joined.

League Team Interest Videos Date gathered
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows 909 16-Jun-10
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows 915 21-Jun-10
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows 999 24-Oct-10
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions 587 16-Jun-10
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions 594 21-Jun-10
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions 682 24-Oct-10
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues 531 16-Jun-10
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues 532 21-Jun-10
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues 576 24-Oct-10
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Magpies 828 16-Jun-10
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Magpies 841 21-Jun-10
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Magpies 1,060 24-Oct-10
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers 484 16-Jun-10
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers 499 21-Jun-10
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers 556 24-Oct-10
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers 329 16-Jun-10
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers 340 21-Jun-10
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers 421 24-Oct-10
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats 583 16-Jun-10
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats 585 21-Jun-10
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats 764 24-Oct-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club 11 16-Jun-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club 11 21-Jun-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Karmichael Hunt 74 21-Jun-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club 16 24-Oct-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Israel Folau 76 24-Oct-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Karmichael Hunt 65 24-Oct-10
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Suns 51 24-Oct-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Israel Folau 99 16-Jun-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney 9 16-Jun-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney 9 21-Jun-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Israel Folau 102 21-Jun-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Israel Folau 79 24-Oct-10
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney 16 24-Oct-10
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Hawks 605 16-Jun-10
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Hawks 616 21-Jun-10
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Hawks 736 24-Oct-10
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Demons 250 16-Jun-10
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Demons 249 21-Jun-10
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Demons 289 24-Oct-10
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos 160 16-Jun-10
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos 159 21-Jun-10
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos 178 24-Oct-10
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power 227 16-Jun-10
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power 225 21-Jun-10
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power 274 24-Oct-10
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers 412 16-Jun-10
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers 411 21-Jun-10
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers 462 24-Oct-10
AFL St. Kilda Saints St. Kilda Saints 273 16-Jun-10
AFL St. Kilda Saints St. Kilda Saints 267 21-Jun-10
AFL St. Kilda Saints St. Kilda Saints 411 24-Oct-10
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans 697 16-Jun-10
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans 720 21-Jun-10
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans 861 24-Oct-10
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles 785 16-Jun-10
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles 789 21-Jun-10
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles 871 24-Oct-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 812 16-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 131 16-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 612 16-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 127 16-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 128 21-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 615 21-Jun-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 670 21-Jul-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 135 21-Jul-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 974 24-Oct-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 114 24-Oct-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 753 24-Oct-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 111 24-Oct-10
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis 111 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Ainslie Football Club Ainslie Football Club 5 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Ainslie Football Club Ainslie Football Club 5 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Ainslie Football Club Ainslie Football Club 10 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Belconnen Magpies Belconnen Magpies 4 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Belconnen Magpies Belconnen Magpies 4 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Belconnen Magpies Belconnen Magpies 6 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Eastlake Football Club Eastlake Football Club 2 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Eastlake Football Club Eastlake Football Club 2 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Eastlake Football Club Eastlake Football Club 10 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Queanbeyan Tigers Queanbeyan Tigers 3 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Queanbeyan Tigers Queanbeyan Tigers 3 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Queanbeyan Tigers Queanbeyan Tigers 13 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves Sydney Swans Reserves 30 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves Sydney Swans Reserves 30 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves Sydney Swans Reserves 30 24-Oct-10
AFL Canberra Tuggeranong Hawks Tuggeranong Hawks 4 16-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Tuggeranong Hawks Tuggeranong Hawks 4 21-Jun-10
AFL Canberra Tuggeranong Hawks Tuggeranong Hawks 14 24-Oct-10
AHL Canberra Labor Club Lakers Canberra Labor Club Lakers 0 16-Jun-10
AHL Canberra Labor Club Lakers Canberra Labor Club Lakers 10 24-Oct-10
AHL New South Wales Waratahs New South Wales Waratahs 3 16-Jun-10
AHL New South Wales Waratahs New South Wales Waratahs 9 24-Oct-10
AHL NT Stingers NT Stingers 0 16-Jun-10
AHL NT Stingers NT Stingers 10 24-Oct-10
AHL Queensland Blades Queensland Blades 1 16-Jun-10
AHL Queensland Blades Queensland Blades 10 24-Oct-10
AHL Southern Hotshots Southern Hotshots 3 16-Jun-10
AHL Southern Hotshots Southern Hotshots 10 24-Oct-10
AHL Tassie Tigers Tassie Tigers 2 16-Jun-10
AHL Tassie Tigers Tassie Tigers 12 24-Oct-10
AHL Victoria Vikings Victoria Vikings 1 16-Jun-10
AHL Victoria Vikings Victoria Vikings 11 24-Oct-10
AHL WA Thundersticks WA Thundersticks 0 16-Jun-10
AHL WA Thundersticks WA Thundersticks 10 24-Oct-10
A-League Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory 2,470 16-Jun-10
A-League Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory 2,590 24-Oct-10
Basketball Australia Australian Boomers Australian Boomers 98 14-May-10
Basketball Australia Australian Boomers Australian Boomers 104 24-Oct-10
Basketball Australia Australian Opals Australian Opals 538 14-May-10
Basketball Australia Australian Opals Australian Opals 220 24-Oct-10
First class cricket NSW Blues NSW Blues 83 16-Jun-10
First class cricket NSW Blues NSW Blues 78 24-Oct-10
NRL Brisbane Broncos Brisbane Broncos 509 16-Jun-10
NRL Brisbane Broncos Brisbane Broncos 520 21-Jun-10
NRL Brisbane Broncos Darren Lockyer 198 21-Jun-10
NRL Brisbane Broncos Brisbane Broncos 525 24-Oct-10
NRL Brisbane Broncos Darren Lockyer 187 24-Oct-10
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders 274 21-Jun-10
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders 403 24-Oct-10
NRL Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Titans 260 21-Jun-10
NRL Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Titans 302 24-Oct-10
NRL Melbourne Storm Melbourne Storm 910 16-Jun-10
NRL Melbourne Storm Melbourne Storm 925 21-Jun-10
NRL Melbourne Storm Melbourne Storm 889 24-Oct-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Timana Tahu 36 16-Jun-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Parramatta Eels 480 16-Jun-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Parramatta Eels 479 16-Jun-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Timana Tahu 36 21-Jun-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Parramatta Eels 485 21-Jun-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Timana Tahu 31 24-Oct-10
NRL Parramatta Eels Parramatta Eels 527 24-Oct-10
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers 390 16-Jun-10
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers 404 21-Jun-10
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers 464 24-Oct-10
Rugby World Cup All Blacks All Blacks 13,200 14-May-10
Rugby World Cup All Blacks All Blacks 5,170 24-Oct-10
State of Origin Queensland Maroons Queensland Maroons 34 16-Jun-10
State of Origin Queensland Maroons Queensland Maroons 41 24-Oct-10
W-League Canberra United Canberra United 43 16-Jun-10
W-League Canberra United Canberra United 39 24-Oct-10
W-League Melbourne Victory W-League Melbourne Victory 18 2-Jul-10
W-League Melbourne Victory +W-League +Melbourne Victory 18 2-Jul-10
W-League Melbourne Victory W-League Melbourne Victory 14 24-Oct-10
W-League Melbourne Victory +W-League +Melbourne Victory 14 24-Oct-10
W-League W-League W-League 299 2-Jul-10
W-League W-League W-League 357 24-Oct-10
World Cup Soccer All Whites All Whites 429 14-May-10
World Cup Soccer All Whites All Whites 607 16-Jun-10
World Cup Soccer All Whites All Whites 810 24-Oct-10
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 1,760 14-May-10
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 2,080 16-Jun-10
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 2,290 24-Oct-10

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Australian Hockey League on everything

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 11 February, 2010

This is mostly a follow up to Australian Hockey League on blogger, LiveJournal, and LiveJournal clones and Another problem team is problem: Tasmanian Tigers.  I finished looking at the other networks that I’ve been looking at so far: Bebo, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo!Groups.  Given the size of this league and some of the name issues (two teams sharing names with other, bigger teams), I wasn’t surprised that the size was so tiny on these networks.  There isn’t enough data to provide any sort of meaningful analysis so I’m just providing a table of the size of the communities on the aforementioned networks based on the methodology discussed in other posts.

Australian Hockey League

Interest Canberra Labor Club Lakers New South Wales Waratahs NT Stingers Queensland Blades Southern Hotshots Tassie Tigers Victoria Vikings WA Thundersticks
Dreamwidth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DeadJournal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
JournalFen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
InsaneJournal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blurty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inksome 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CrazyLife 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
scribbld 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
LiveJournal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blogger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
bebo 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0
Facebook 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yahoo!Groups 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Twitter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0

The AHL has zero presence that I can find on Twitter, which is a bit surprising.  No one appears to even be reporting on them.  They also appear to not have a presence on Facebook.  Developing these two would probably help increase their overall visibility.

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Based on data to date: Biggest Australian sports fandom

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 9 January, 2010

The following chart is based on the data gathered for posts to date.  It is intended to give a general idea as to the comparative size of various sports fandom communities to each other.  Blanks indicate that no data regarding that team on the service has been gathered; it does not indicate a size of zero for that particularly service.  If you would like specific data regarding a team on a service to understand where that number of coming from, please comment or e-mail me at laura[at]fanhistory[dot]com.  I am more than happy to explain it.

Leagues with teams at the bottom include AFL, AHL, A-League, Claxton Shield, Gridiron Australia Nationals, KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, NBL, Rugby League/State of Origin, Victorian Amateur Football Association.  The AFL’s expansion team puts one of their teams in the bottom 10.  Soccer teams, baseball teams, American/Gridiron football, basketball, netball, rugby union, ice hockey, rugby league and Australian rules football are at the bottom.  Some of these sports can be accounted for because of they are not popular sports in the country.  Others can be accounted for because the teams are part of secondary leagues and competitions.  It will be interesting to see how and if popularity shifts as more data is added from additional networks.

Edited to add: This post mostly came about as I needed to take a break from gathering Yahoo!Groups data.  The directory currently is not working for me.  It limits my ability to data gather as a result.  Two of the big things in terms of moving a team up or down the above list are Facebook and Twitter.  Facebook has a lot of voids and that’s easy enough to fill in.  I did that.  Things at the bottom didn’t change much but things at the top really did change with four clubs above the 40,000 fans threshold.

Given the huge leaps there, I cannot really foresee the top order changing much, especially as the Twitter data is already there. The other social networks out there just do not have populations to provide an audience that size. Facebook claims that 7,680,420 people are from Australia on its service. When 50,000 list their interest as the Magpies or the Blues, well, that’s .6% of all Australians on Facebook. Or put another way, 3 out of every 500 Australians on the site list one of those two teams as an interest. For a sports team, that seems really high and about on par for the most popular sports team in other countries. (The New York Yankees have about 785,000 fans for an American population of about 101,468,000 on Facebook. That puts the percentage at about .7%.)

Yahoo!Groups doesn’t have a large population. While bebo is popular in Australia, it doesn’t provide numbers even close to this. The only way to get numbers that large are to find community specific sites which require registration.

More edited to add: One of the things I did not realize with the various data sets I’ve been compiling is that about a third of the teams in the National Rugby League aren’t included. My bad. Most of my focus has been on the AFL. Hence, the oversight. I’ve compiled that again and rather than update with a third image, just going to say that there have been no major shake ups. The Brisbane Broncos remain on thop. The St. George Dragons are at the bottom with 240 fans. Second to last are the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs with 1,580. No team really has the big number of fans that the AFL has.

More editing: I normally tried variations of a team’s name for Facebook to make sure I get the highest number.  In the case of St. George Illawarra Dragons, I goofed and got the one that listed 240.  When I used St Geoergillawarra Dragons combed with St. George Illawarra Dragons, I got 9,200.  This change will show up in any future data analysis.  The collection date has always been changed to today just so I know when I got that number.

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Brisbane’s sports community on LiveJournal and clones, bebo, blogger and Twitter

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 5 January, 2010

This post is a series of posts looking at the size of Australian sports leagues on LiveJournal, its clones and other social networks. Earlier posts include Australian Football League on JournalFen , Australian Football League community on DeadJournal , National Rugby League on DeadJournal and JournalFen,  Australian Football League on LiveJournal clones like Blurty, Dreamwidth Studios and InsaneJournal, Adelaide Crows community on LiveJournal, its clones and Blogger,and Official Australian Football League Twitter accounts and follower population by country. and Brisbane Lions community on LiveJournal, its clones and Blogger. Methodology for this post has been discussed in earlier posts.

Brisbane has a number of professional sports team including the Brisbane Broncos, Brisbane Lions, Queensland Maroons, Brisbane Roar, Brisbane Bullets (defunct), Queensland Reds, Queensland Bulls, Queensland Blades, Queensland Firebirds, Queensland Rams and Queensland Sundevils.  For all but two of these teams, the Blades and Rams, there is some small community on one of the following social networks: bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and its clones, Twitter.  If Twitter is excluded, the Broncos have the largest community with 333 people interested in them and the Sundevils the smallest with 1 person interested in them.

What does the Brisbane sports team fandom look like? Half (54%) the Australian community is based out of Queensland and about a quarter (28%) is based in New South Wales.  The rest is distributed amongst the other states, with the exception of Tasmania which has no Brisbane fans for any sports.

Map of Brisbane sports fandom by state and team

Rugby is traditionally more popular than footy in Queensland.   The distribution in Queensland suggests something a bit different, with 89 total fans for the Lions versus 83 for the Broncos.  Rugby and the Broncos are more popular only in New South Wales than footy and the Lions. One exception exists for the ACT where there are three fans for each.

Bearing in mind that people can be counted twice if they are one more than one network and are fans of more than one team, Brisbane sports fandom where the Australian state is known has the the largest interest base on bebo, with 272 people using it.  Next is LiveJournal with 62 users, Blogger with 20, Blurty with 2 and InsaneJournal with 1.  Brisbane fans in the ACT are more likely to use LiveJournal (3) with bebo (2) and blogger (2) being their next most popular choices.  Victorian fans of Brisbane teams just prefer bebo (11) to LiveJournal (10) with their third choice being blogger. (2)  In all other cases, bebo is the top choice in every state for Brisbane sports fans.  Outside of Queensland, no other fans use or used blurty or InsaneJournal.

There is an international interest in Brisbane sports teams.  This ranges from 0 to 50% of the total community that lists their country of origin.  Communities with 50% of their support base outside Australia include the Queensland Red community on bebo, and the Brisbane Roar community on bebo.  In both these cases, the community is 4 and 2 people respectively.  33.3% of the 30 member strong Queensland Maroons community on bebo comes from outside Australia, with 8 people from New Zealand and 2 from the Cook Islands. 32.4% of the Twitter followers of the Brisbane Broncos are from outside Australia with 13 from China, 68 from Great Britain and 286 from the United States. 28.9% of the Brisbane Broncos on bebo comes outside Australia with 32 people from New Zealand, 10 from Papau New Guinea, 6 from the United States, 2 from Fiji, the Philippines and Tonga.   The Queensland Reds unofficial Twitter follow list has 28.6% of its followers from outside the US. 50 followers are the US, 36 from Great Britain, 9 from Brazil and New Zealand, and 4 from Denmark and Italy.

bebo, Blogger and LiveJournal all allow users to display their age on their profiles.   This can help develop a picture of the age of the a team’s community online.  There is a small problem in that not everyone lists their age and these populations are very, very small.  Thus, this data cannot be really used to extrapolate beyond the specific community unless there is some other evidence to support that.

For the Brisbane Broncos community on blogger, the average age is 33, median is 31, mode is 20 with 9 of 12 people listing their ages.  This is not close to LiveJournal’s Broncos community which has an average age of 25, median age of 27 and mode age of 20 with 13 of 42 people listing their age.  The bebo community is much younger than both with an average age of 23, median age of 20 and mode age of 19 with 127 of 278 people listing their age.  For the lions, 49 people list their page on bebo with an average age of 24.5, median age of 21, mode age of 18.  On blogger, 10 Lions fans list their age.  They have a average ago of 33, median age of 30 and mode age of 27.  For LiveJournal Lions fans,  17 list their age.  They have an average age of 26, and a median and mode age of 24.  Only one other group, Queensland Maroons on bebo, have more than 10 fans who list their ages.  In that group, 21 list their ages, with an average age of 21.9, median age of 20 and mode age of 20.

Bebo and blogger both allow users to publicly display their gender.  The team and network with the highest percentage of male fans involves the Queensland Reds on bebo, where all six individuals list their gender as male.  The next highest percentage of male in the community include the Brisbane Bulls on bebo and the Queensland Bulls on bebo.  In both cases, the percentage of males is 60%.  In the case of the Brisbane Bulls,  40% or 2 people do not list a gender.  For the Queensland Bulls,  20% or one person lists identifies as female and the other did not list a gender.  The highest percentage of female members is the Queensland Bulls on blogger with 50% but that community only has two members.  The next highest percentage is for the Brisbane Broncos community on blogger at 42% or five people identifying as female.  All other members of that community identify as male.   The Brisbane Lions community on blogger has a female percentage at 38, with 6 people identifying as female.  56% of the members identify as male and 6%, or one person, do not list a gender.  The highest percentage of unknown/unlisted gender is for the Queensland Sundevils bebo community, which only has one person and they don’t identify their gender.  After that is the Brisbane Roar community on bebo, where 69% or 11 people do not identify their gender, 4 people identify as male and 1 identifies as female.  The Brisbane Lions community on bebo has 40% unknown/unlisted with 53 people not including their gender. 36% of the Lions bebo community identifies as male and 24% identifies as female.

This isn’t the best write up, mostly just summarizing some of the data.    The rest of the data used for this post will show up in future posts.  As I learn more, I’m planning on integrating more analysis of what this data means.

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