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.

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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.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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Jonathan
11 years ago

Can you post distributions as well. This information is not very helpful without those (i.e. min, max, mean and standard dev.). Thanks.