Interest in the Trade Deadline, Visualized by Sam Fuld
Yesterday, FanGraphs set some traffic records that we might not break for a very long time. It turns out that having like 15 trades go down in the span of six hours is good business for a site that specializes in transaction analysis. Who knew, right?
But maybe the most fun thing wasn’t that David Price and Jon Lester generated a lot of interest, because that was always going to happen, but that the activity allowed a guy like Sam Fuld to take the spotlight for a little while. How much did people care about Sam Fuld yesterday compared to prior days? Well, here’s a graph of the page views for his player page this year.
Sam Fuld, this is what it looks like to be internet famous for a day.
Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
Are player activity pages for all players publicly available?
There needs to be a page for “Player Page Views above Replacement”.
I’m sure Trout would be the leader there, too.
Dunno about that. It’ll be tough to dethrone Jack “Big Natural Boobs” McCarthy
Some minor leaguer is going to change his name to “Mike Trou” and dethrone him by hijacking all his article links. Just you wait!
That’s a great idea!
That’s awesome.
Hopefully this is the first of many Instagraphs Fangraphs Graphs
WooHoo Sam Fuld!
so you guys revealed the real reason why you want the trade deadline to move back 2 weeks….
more trades = more traffic to fangraphs 🙂
Apparently his spike on 4/18/2011 was because of a sweet diving catch he made to rob Brent Morel of a hit.
So apparently getting traded is over 5x more interesting than on-field excellence!
First time in his career that Sam has crossed the Johan Santa line.
Trade Deadline is to FanGraphs as Thanksgiving+1 is to Brick & Mortor stores.