Amazin' Avenue: A Thank You With Numbers
by Eric Simon on Jan 8, 2010 12:00 PM EST
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Print2009 was a year of astounding growth for Amazin' Avenue. James already recapped some of our more interesting and entertaining posts from the past year. We would eventually like to compile the best FanPosts and FanShots of the past year, too, to highlight some of the great contributions from members of this community. Someone should get on that.
Thanks to the hard work by a lot of people at SB Nation, our network secured content distribution deals with some of the biggest names in internet sports, like Yahoo!, SportsLine, and SI, relationships which led to a considerable surge in traffic and new readership. Thanks to dumb luck on my part, I stumbled upon two brilliant Mets writers in Sam and James who have had an immeasurable impact on both the quality and quantity of great content on this site. We are all more knowledgeable Mets fans because of their contributions here. Joe also came aboard this past year and righted the applesauce ship that I had previously steered full-bore into jagged rocks. I hear from more people than I can count how much they love the daily link dumps, which are all a result of Joe's hard work. Add to all that the reacquisition of Alex and the recent introduction of Mark to the front-page team and we've got a group of writers as good as any.
All of these things have contributed to building an audience that has quadrupled in size over the past year.
| 2008 | 2009 | % Diff | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 233,573 | 1,126,381 | 382% |
| Page Views | 432,953 | 2,452,190 | 466% |
An average of 3,086 different people stopped by here every day in 2009, so thank you to all of their respective mothers' and their respective basements.
What's more, Dusty, one of the SBN developers, pulled together the content stats from the past year for us to disseminate and share with you guys. Here are some site-specific numbers.
- New members: 1,568
- Total comments: 171,825
- Total stories: 1,073
- Total FanPosts: 495
- Total FanShots: 1,426
That breaks down to 4.3 new users, 471 comments, 2.9 stories, 1.4 FanPosts, and 3.9 FanShots per day. Now the fun part.
Most Active Commenters
| Num | User | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | squid92 | 8,730 |
| 2 | fxcarden | 4,886 |
| 3 | KeithsMoustache | 4,873 |
| 4 | Jadden Hopkins | 4,718 |
| 5 | Mark Himmelstein | 4,442 |
| 6 | Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright | 4,441 |
| 7 | Gina | 4,369 |
| 8 | JoshNY | 3,641 |
| 9 | itsmetsforme | 3,615 |
| 10 | Prince | 3,400 |
squid92 is the clear commenting champion of 2009, almost doubling his next-closest competitor. It was a dogfight for second place, but fxcarden edged KeithsMustache by a mere thirteen comments to grab the silver medal. Congratulations?
Most Stories
| Num | User | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Simon | 500 |
| 2 | James Kannengieser | 201 |
| 3 | Joe Budd | 185 |
| 4 | Sam Page | 165 |
| 5 | Alex Nelson | 17 |
| 6 | kingcritical | 3 |
| 7 | Mark Himmelstein | 2 |
Suck it, losers. Better luck next year.
Most FanPosts
| Num | User | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Himmelstein | 39 |
| 2 | robcast23 | 19 |
| 3 | James Kannengieser | 14 |
| 4 | METSMETSMETS | 13 |
| 5 | Bobby Baseball | 12 |
| 6 | centerpede 101 | 11 |
| 7 | Sokojoe | 11 |
| 8 | AshleyMarshall | 11 |
| 9 | riversmccown | 9 |
| 10 | scott from peekskill | 8 |
Did centerpede really write eleven FanPosts? The winner of this list is now a front-page author here. Is that a not-so-subtle hint to this year's potential top contributors? I won't say.
Most FanShots
| Num | User | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Page | 121 |
| 2 | Eric Simon | 112 |
| 3 | squid92 | 106 |
| 4 | fxcarden | 89 |
| 5 | Mark Himmelstein | 86 |
| 6 | James Kannengieser | 81 |
| 7 | Sokojoe | 67 |
| 8 | Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright | 45 |
| 9 | Gina | 37 |
| 10 | Schmidtxc | 31 |
85% of these involved either Livan Hernandez eating donuts or Jeff Francoeur and Omir Santos racing for .300.
So thanks again for everyone involved in the site -- my fellow writers, this fantastic community, and our tireless SB Nation team -- for making 2009 the best year yet at Amazin' Avenue. Here's to 2010 kicking 2009's ass.
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You nerds, always with the numbers.
PS – Please don’t tell my various bosses that I had that many comments on here.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 8, 2010 12:22 PM EST reply actions
Got you by one comment! Suck on that!
:)
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet
What a fool I was to defy him"
-HST
by Mark Himmelstein on Jan 8, 2010 1:31 PM EST up reply actions
Damn you, Himmelstein!
Rest assured, I’m shaking my fist quite vigorously at the monitor right now.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 8, 2010 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
The Meddler had a lot of posts
but this guy Himmelstein is a total noob. I think ’Meat takes #5.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
That's true.
I want a recount!
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 9, 2010 8:36 AM EST up reply actions
Truly honored to be one of 1,568
"For $11.4 million you can actually get a good player. But of course this is one of the things foolish organizations do: They complain that they can't afford good players after spending millions of dollars on not-good players." --Rob Neyer
AA demographics
For the real stats, you can check AA @ Quantcast.
by Michkin on Jan 8, 2010 12:41 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
33% female?
well hello ladies! pretty good ratio for a sports team fan page if you ask me.
another point from the real stats i noticed is AA has 49.3K of all the SB Nation’s 3,900K monthly visitors. which is about 1.3% of the total, which sounds small, but not when you consider that its over 32X what you’d expect the average to be of one off SB Nation’s 238 individual sites (0.4%), well then its a lot more kick ass (IMHO). do those calcs jive with you all? anyone know what AA ranks amongst the rest off the SB Nation? of course by subjective quality we’re numero uno, but it would interesting to know the quantitative numbers, too.
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
33% female, 22% has kids, 29% earns more than $100k and they still can't get a house for themselves.
So, you have rich females with kids, who live in their mom’s basement and post at AA.
Amazinavenue.com Valuation $306,408.6
AA keywords: “sandy koufax stats”, “sandy koufax address”. How come they don’t list “sean green unicycle” ?
AA ranked 14th Best MLB Blog by Sports Media Challenge
AA ranked 22th MLB Blog by BallHype
hmm
combined 77% over the age of 35? but 78% with no kids? 33% female? i call bs
"I only wanted a few things out of life -- a wife, children, to play baseball and to hunt deer." - Turk Wendell
I find nothing strange about those first two stats
I mean, if you’re over 35 and you have no kids, what else would you be doing but talking baseball?
2009 Did Not Happen
I wonder who the 3-12 year olds are
metsguy is clearly the one 13-17 year old.
in other news I didnt know you guys were all so old.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Actually it's kind of nice
I always feel like the old guy at 32, so it’s good to see there are more old fogies around. It’s like the opposite of when I go to my cardiologist, where I’m usually the youngest guy in the waiting room by something like 30 years.
why are you seeing a cardiologist at 32?
oh wait, you’re a metsfan.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
That "1" after 13-17 is the index, not the number of people.
wrightttxgirlllx3 is in that age range too.
Wouldn't you be 93 or 94 by now?
I guess it gets hard to remember.
by SuperT on Jan 9, 2010 11:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
why is "giant schlong" not accounted for?
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
the best 11 things ive read in my entire life
gosh darn i miss that centerpede101.
those 11 rays of divine glory easily put this online community into the position of undisputed heavyweight CHAMPTIONS OF THE INNERWEBS!
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
Thank You
I am really glad to have stumbled up on this site this summer. It’s refreshing to read insightful commentary backed up by some of the smartest commenters I’ve ever seen on a blog. Looking forward to enjoying a full season at AA.
Same here
Has made me much smarter and makes following the team a lot more fun (even if some in the MSM would say those are mutually exclusive)
by Bieser's Balk on Jan 8, 2010 12:52 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed tenfold.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 12:27 AM EST up reply actions
You should also send Cerrone a thank you note or something....
since part of the bump here is due to Metsblog being locked up tighter than Fort Knox.
you know what I'm sayin' ?
Yup,
That’s the reason I stumbled upon this site. I refuse to ‘audition’ for the ‘privilege’ of posting on that site…
Congrats on the success of this site.
by MetsFan4Decades on Jan 8, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
curse you and your 13 more comments
this will be my year!
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
heres another thank you with numbers
1010111010010110101011010010101101010101
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
The hell?
When I said that binary code aloud, I got a glowing green globe that allows me to travel back in time!
If there's ever a riot at Citi Field and Oliver Perez was the starter, I started the riot.
Interesting
I have that very binary code tattooed on my ass. Strange
The Mets lobby Omar for a plan, and his plan, he likes his plan. The problem is that he didn't write his plan down 'cause that makes it paperwork, and that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?
Thank you for sharing that.
Now I got some blackmail material in case I ever need it.
Beer is good! And stuff!
That's what happens
… when you build a better mouse trap.
Not that AA wasn’t enjoyable before, but more and more commenters seem to be posting, over the last year and there’s more cream— a la our erstwhile Meddler— to rise. AA’s not only more popular than it was at the beginning of last year, in my mind— at least— it’s a better, deeper site.
by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Jan 8, 2010 1:26 PM EST reply actions
Eric, do you even watch people posting on AA?
Or do you just rely on your numbers to tell the whole story? If you want to understand anything at all about AA’s readers, you need to watch them type their fanposts and see what goes into them. You need to see who does or does not bring the intangibles to AA – numbers can’t tell you that.
Nerd.
by ams258 on Jan 8, 2010 1:32 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Yeah, these other people may have the impressive numbers
But I have grit and determination, and I’m here to win.
if you break it down to rate stats
24.82 comments per day on average, at least according to my spreadsheets.
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
I've seen me post, and my scouting tells me i'm a high probability poster
i dont need your new fangled numbers to back it up!
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
::tears off shirt in rage::
Let me tell you… i have a plan… and my plan… i like that plan
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
thanks
unfortunately at this point most of it is impossible at best
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 9, 2010 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
but that doesn't take into account
days on vacation/slow internet connection/strict boss/etc. Average really doesn’t tell you much of anything.
2009 Did Not Happen
Awesome
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
Great job everybody
Your effort embiggens us all!
You don't cheer for the Mets. You drink for the Mets.
I joined in October '08
(actually, a little earlier, but I made one comment and then disappeared for like 6 months before I finally couldn’t take Metsblog anymore and came here full-time, so to speak)
I have 3494 comments here, which is actually about 275 more than at BigBlueView, where I am a front page writer and have been commenting since the beginning of the 2007 season. And somehow I’m not in the top 10 most commenters. Crazy.
Great site, Eric – hopefully this year I won’t go on a 2-week summer vacation and come back to a Mets team that had lost like 75% of their games in that span, causing me to lose interest for a few weeks so I can crack the top 10.
2009 Did Not Happen
I joined in May of last season
and have 3,483 (3,484 now) comments. Had I joined last January, I’d probably have over 6,000 posts over the year.
The Mets lobby Omar for a plan, and his plan, he likes his plan. The problem is that he didn't write his plan down 'cause that makes it paperwork, and that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?
I would love to see the full top-25
I want to know where I rank!
The crazy thing is sometimes I feel like I post too much. Although, when you consider that I actually have 7235 (now 7236) posts across SBN, and probably about 6,400 of them in 2009, I guess that is a lot of posting…
2009 Did Not Happen
Good job by all those that deserve it!
If there's ever a riot at Citi Field and Oliver Perez was the starter, I started the riot.
You're nearing 10,000
Have you really put in 1,200 comments in since January 1?
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 8, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
Wait, nevermind.
I was looking at total # of comments over SBN, not just at AA. My bad.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 8, 2010 4:00 PM EST up reply actions
I thought you were bad
until I logged onto BBV and saw this
Damn, FreeBradshaw even puts you to shame. Or makes it look like you have a life, whichever angle you’re coming from haha.
2009 Did Not Happen
Is there a stat that measures the quality of the posts and comments?
Like Recs/100 comments or weighted Rec percentage to include Recs per fanpost and fanshot (wRP)?
that would be awesome
- of comment Recs and number of post Recs or something like that.
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
that should be "number of comments"
stupid autoformatting
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 8, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
SBN needs to figure this out
that would be awesome
I love that we’re not just satisfied with counting stats
2009 Did Not Happen
I love how c101 is 6th on number of fan posts
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
I remember when I first was just reading Applesauce
off of a link from Yahoo! One day I clicked on the little Amazin Avenue logo and a whole new world was opened in front of my eyes, like Brendan Fraiser in Bone Monkey.
Travis Hafner is made of gold
I like the site
Hey I have fun posting on this site, read a lot of good ideas about the Mets..and a lot of pipe dreams. always something new and fun to read
who cares who wrote the most fanposts?
The BEST fan post clearly was from the late, great paperman519.
On a more serious note, I’ve been here since December of ’05, and the place keeps getting better and better (the centerpedes of the world notwithstanding). Looking forward to sharing the hair-pulling moments of the 2010 season with you people.
Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.
I'm coming for you
JoshNY
If my mom would get rid of dial-up here in the basement, I’d of already passed you.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
oh wow I totally missed the commentor numbers
i now worship at the altar of squid
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
you disappeared for a while though
I think if you’d kept posting in August/September you’d have been closer to the top.
On another note, I miss LoutheMetsFan (and now Nats too, I guess) – that guy definitely would have been in the top 10 last year
2009 Did Not Happen
Is he the guy who made the wonderful graphics?
I remember fondly Delgado’s heart of home runs.
Demographics @ Quantcast
Yeah seriously, WTF on those Quantcast demographics???
It’s fascinating to read, but I call bullshit on almost every stat they list. 33% female? Um, sure.
The other funny thing is to compare AA to Metsblog. According to Quantcast, AA is whiter than the stands at Fenway Park, and yet Metsblog registers as enormous numbers of Asians and Hispanics. Not sure what to make of that other than it also seems like complete bullshit.
Also...
In what is probably more accurate counts, we had only 23 unique visits from Wyoming.
I think we need to launch a major campaign to get that number up. I’m thinking of putting up an AA billboard in Yellowstone.
aren't there only like 100 people in wyoming?
I imagine we’ve maxed out the mets market there.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
The team has the odd ability to get fans in the weirdest places...
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 12:30 AM EST up reply actions
I see a pleasing ratio of Mets to Yankees
merchandise in North London, like 1:2 or something (albeit it’s damned rare to see either). In the UK more generally the only baseball merch you generally see are Yankees hats on kids’ heads and an occasional American with their actual team cap – seen quite a few Red Sox fans in London and Oxford. Worryingly I’ve begun to notice more people over here in Phillies caps, but hopefully that was a one-time phenomenon down to that freak world series victory…
Give it to me, I'm going there in late August.
I’ll put it up by Old Faithful.
you know what I'm sayin' ?
Okay so I only started commenting a short time ago
But you guys have already made me go from a B- to an A- in math with all these stats, if that says something. You think I’m kidding. I’m really not. It’s just plain sad. But I’m looking foward to the 2010. God only knows what the Mets have in store for us this season.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 9, 2010 12:14 AM EST reply actions
Exactly.
When I joined, I knew crap about sabermetrics. I still know crap about sabermetrics, but enough to disprove the many tropes of the “average” fan, using things like fielding percentage to justify Jason Bay being a better defensive outfielder than Matt Holliday.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 12:31 AM EST up reply actions
Now see, right there.
A couple months ago, I don’t know what the hell that means. Thank you AA, for making me that much smarter.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 9, 2010 12:35 AM EST up reply actions
thank you for looking into the stats
rather than railing against them from the jump and refusing to open your mind to them.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
While accusing the people using the sabermetric stats of refusing to be open-minded...
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 12:53 AM EST up reply actions
Well if I'm arguing the stats without knowing what they mean
then I don’t really have an argument, do I?
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 9, 2010 1:07 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
As you probably know, that never stops plenty of people (on this site, and across the rest of the world).
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 9, 2010 1:44 AM EST up reply actions
Rec'd
Thank you. Such a simple concept, yet one so foreign to so many.
by James Kannengieser on Jan 9, 2010 2:54 AM EST up reply actions
i like how
James signs on with his obvious alter ego, wrightttttxxgirlllx3, to issue an inspirational message to the faithful, then recs his own alternate personality. well played, sir.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
I can't even pronounce James' last name, hate to break it to you.
And when writing my username, I understand how obnoxious/irritating it must be to write such a girly name, with the unnecissary letters and x’s and hearts and what not. So when writing my username, you can feel free to just say “wright girl” if it’s easier. Don’t want to ruin all of your macho images.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 9, 2010 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
i appreciate that
i’d like to keep my macho image entirely intact
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
As I was writing that
I knew another one of the rare girls on this website would just happen read it. Oh well. Either way it’s probably annoying to write, macho or not. I’m sorry if that comment offended you ;)
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 9, 2010 9:57 PM EST up reply actions
Lol no not at all
I was joking.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
But whatever happened to wrightgirlllx1 and 2?
And don’t ask me what the correct plural would be…I’m way too old for that.
"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore
Pronounce it cannon-geyser
It’s a toughie
by James Kannengieser on Jan 10, 2010 9:03 PM EST up reply actions
That's pretty much what it looks like.
I really can’t think of another way to pronounce it, it looks pretty straightforward to me.
The Mets lobby Omar for a plan, and his plan, he likes his plan. The problem is that he didn't write his plan down 'cause that makes it paperwork, and that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?
I know I'm just like retarded when it comes to this kind of thing.
It took me four months to learn how to pronounce Cyrus properly.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 11, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
That's how I thought it was pronounced.
Seems easier than mine, and most people get mine wrong.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Jan 10, 2010 10:38 PM EST up reply actions
Incognito
is an easy last name to pronounce. Maybe the underscore throws people off?
The Mets lobby Omar for a plan, and his plan, he likes his plan. The problem is that he didn't write his plan down 'cause that makes it paperwork, and that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?
Yes, that's it
People don’t realize it’s pronounced “Underscore-Incognito”.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Jan 12, 2010 12:07 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe at some point in time there was a wrightttxgirlllx1 or 2.
But the point of the 3 is to try and make it look like somewhat of a heart. You were probably jsut being sarcastic but i felt the need to explain anyway.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Jan 10, 2010 12:43 AM EST reply actions
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