STN’s Top 25 Sports Blogs for April
| Rank | Blog | Sport | |||
| 1 | Deadspin | All Sports | 188,743 | 224,412 | 6398 |
| 2 | With Leather | All Sports | 89,143 | 91,464 | 9551 |
| 3 | Sports By Brooks | All Sports | 76,891 |
77,094
|
16292 |
| 4 | The Big Lead | All Sports | 61,887 | 65,642 | 30623 |
| 5 | Barstool Sports | All Sports | 85,008 |
51,655
|
15817 |
| 6 | MLB Trade Rumors | MLB | 70,773 |
51,498
|
18111 |
| 7 | Mets Blog | MLB | 28,659 | 34,239 | 25319 |
| 8 | Kissing Suzy Kolber* | Football | 43450 | ||
| 9 | Awful Announcing* | All Sports | 55800 | ||
| 10 | Hardball Times | Baseball | 31,555 | 57236 | |
| 11 | Busted Coverage | Football | 42,323 | 32,411 | 94928 |
| 12 | MgoBlog* | College Football | 120286 | ||
| 13 | Bad Jocks | All Sports | 30,352 | 34,895 | 151815 |
| 14 | EDSBS | College Football | 22,714 |
25,309
|
81308 |
| 15 | The 700 Level | All Sports | 32,741 | 28,703 | 128509 |
| 16 | Homer Derby | MLB | 26,107 |
25,365
|
151192 |
| 17 | Fire Joe Morgan | MLB | 12,067 |
17,399
|
|
| 18 | Baseball Musings | MLB | 13,458 |
19,793
|
139315 |
| 19 | Fan Blogs | College Football | 19,652 |
19,246
|
199240 |
| 20 | Football Outsiders | NFL | 14,771 |
14,520
|
87683 |
| 21 | Mr. Irrelevant | All Sports | 21,686 |
16,243
|
149444 |
| 22 | Minor League Ball | MLB | 13,596 |
13,981
|
103315 |
| 23 | Burnt Orange Nation | College Football | 14,953 |
14,391
|
148982 |
| 24 | USS Mariner | MLB | 7,344 |
10,833
|
77287 |
| 25 | Need 4 Sheed | NBA | 10,453 |
10,070
|
111361 |
*Kissing Suzy Kolber is hosted at kissmesuzy.blogspot.com and Kissingsuzykolber.net. Most of their traffic goes to the blogspot address so we used that address for stats. The same is true for Awful Announcing. Mgoblog is only at Mgoblog.blogspot.com
Only one site new to the list and that is Hardball Times. We are not sure why they have been left off the list but they have deserved to be on it since we started this site. The biggest thing that stood out to us versus lasts months Top 25 Sports Blog Rankings is that nearly all the Alexa numbers had drastic improvements. We are not sure if this means that Alexa gave more weight to sports sites or that more sports fans have added the Alexa Toolbar.
For those of you who have never seen this rankings before we want to revisit how we compile the rankings. First, through our research we have found that Compete seems to be the most accurate at reporting site traffic when comparing other websites. Alexa is used as a secondary option for sites that have Compete numbers that are close together.
You won’t see sites like Aol Fanhouse or Bugs and Cranks because they are blog networks. You also won’t see sites like Yahoo blogs, True Hoop, and the Sporting Blog because they are major media networks.
