Jimbo
Running to Stand Still
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You really still don't get it. One more time: UConn is a STATE flagship university. As a result, UConn (predictably) dominates the attention and viewership of its STATE when it comes to college sports. Therefore, when it comes to counting up viewers or cable boxes, focusing myopically on solely the Hartford/New Haven DMA understates UConn's reach because it ignores a sizable portion of the STATE that UConn dominates. As another poster said, would you really measure Ohio State's reach within Ohio by focusing solely on the Columbus DMA, or might you also think Cleveland and Cincinnati worthy of consideration?You want me to change all my data sheets and re-calculate everything because of your re-ranking of your media market size? Even if it's accurate, that's a lot of work to appease a few people on a UConn message board. Do you insist that every national reporter that uses your actual media market size give you those extra 10 points?
Many argue that BYU is the most followed/favored team in the Las Vegas Market. Do we get to add that to our numbers too? Did I do that?
In your insular view you don't seem to understand how complex it is to truly value fan bases and media markets for each individual school.
BYU, by contrast, is not a state flagship university, nor is Las Vegas in Utah to begin with, and thus your Las Vegas argument makes no sense. This isn't about arbitrarily increasing the size of a media market to take into account fans that live in other random places. It's about recognizing the fact that the reach of a state flagship university like UConn extends (at least) out to the state line, not merely to the boundary of a DMA that excludes part of the state that the school represents. So go ahead, omit Fairfield County if you're so determined to ignore that part of the picture, but I sincerely doubt that any conference decision-makers will be relying on data that omits it.
As far as whether or not you want to recalculate your data, I don't really care. You deserve credit for the amount of work you've obviously put into this, but I would be wary that your failure to understand relatively simple issues like this one (as evidenced by your raising this Las Vegas nonsense) threatens to undermine the credibility of what you've created.