Radio Broadcast Rankings: Complete Table and Notes
Over the course of this week, we’ve been releasing the results of our radio broadcaster rankings — itself the product of reader crowdsourcing, and a logical companion to the television broadcaster rankings released in March.
Click the relevant links to read about radio broadcast Nos. 30 – 21, Nos. 20 – 11, and Nos. 10 – 1.
Below is a complete (and sortable) table of the radio broadcast rankings, followed by some notes on same.
| Num | Team | Votes | Charisma | Analysis | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Francisco | 678 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| 2 | Milwaukee | 101 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
| 3 | Texas | 76 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| 4 | Cleveland | 40 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
| 5 | Toronto | 323 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 6 | Washington | 155 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| 7 | Philadelphia | 94 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.4 |
| 8 | Atlanta | 131 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
| 9 | St. Louis | 355 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
| 10 | Tampa Bay | 84 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
| 11 | Chicago NL | 65 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
| 12 | Boston | 65 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 13 | Detroit | 56 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.1 |
| 14 | Oakland | 43 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| 15 | Baltimore | 27 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 16 | New York NL | 124 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 17 | Arizona | 24 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 18 | Cincinnati | 65 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 19 | Colorado | 27 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| 20 | Kansas City | 22 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.4 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 54 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| 22 | Seattle | 117 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| 23 | Houston | 35 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh | 28 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
| 25 | LA NL | 116 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
| 26 | Miami | 21 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
| 27 | LA AL | 21 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 |
| 28 | San Diego | 34 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| 29 | Chicago AL | 52 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.8 |
| 30 | New York AL | 173 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
Notes
• Radio teams, on average, fared better among FanGraphs readers than their television counterparts: the average radio team received an Overall score of 3.75; television, only 3.24 — i.e. almost precisely a half-point difference.
• Regarding the readership, two things. First: they (you?) were indispensable to this project, especially in the provision of amusing and/or useful comments regarding the league’s various broadcast teams. Second: it seems like a long-term, interactive project like this is a viable thing. Is there any other use for it beyond rating broadcasters? Feel very free to use the comment area for suggestions to that end.
• Next week, we’ll look at a table combining both radio and television broadcast teams and also how to integrate all this information, if possible, into the game previews that appear in the Daily Notes.
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Can you post distributions as well. This information is not very helpful without those (i.e. min, max, mean and standard dev.). Thanks.