Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Re: Call me impatient, but...
I certainly shouldn't be someone who knocks numbers being used to support D3 hockey, but I don't know if your numbers tell too much.
For starters, where the D3 message board has one thread for all scores and updates per day, the D1 board has a separate thread for each single game. In order to make an apples to apples comparison, you would have to add up the viewers for each of those individual game threads at any one moment and compare them to the D3 games thread at the same moment.
Where D3 and Women have one thread for all of the future year's commitments, the D1 board tends to bury that information within the school threads dealing with offseason discussions. Again, you would have to add up all these threads to see who they compare with the overall D3 and Women threads on the same subject.
Looking at total viewers of a the message board sections is much more accurate a measure than particular threads.
At times, us writers have asked for information on readership of our columns for all the stuff that gets put up on USCHO. Basically, the entire D3 section of USCHO is equal to one major D1 conference section. Important in the sense that D3 brings in as many eyeballs as a major D1 conference, and the subsequent advertising value thereof, but not nearly as many as all of D1. And it's still a lot of readers for D3 no matter how you slice it.
I do agree with the person who said one should always look at how to improve numbers as oppose to what to do with the current numbers. Any good business should be taking that approach.
And I do agree with your statement that D3 followers are committed to their sport as a whole as opposed to any particular conference or team -- in fact I think this is true for any college sport across the board. But, the rebuttal to that is the way the D3 board vs. the D1 board is set up (see my earlier comments), makes it more difficult for a D1 follower to try to follow the entire sport as opposed to just one conference or team.
I certainly shouldn't be someone who knocks numbers being used to support D3 hockey, but I don't know if your numbers tell too much.
For starters, where the D3 message board has one thread for all scores and updates per day, the D1 board has a separate thread for each single game. In order to make an apples to apples comparison, you would have to add up the viewers for each of those individual game threads at any one moment and compare them to the D3 games thread at the same moment.
Where D3 and Women have one thread for all of the future year's commitments, the D1 board tends to bury that information within the school threads dealing with offseason discussions. Again, you would have to add up all these threads to see who they compare with the overall D3 and Women threads on the same subject.
Looking at total viewers of a the message board sections is much more accurate a measure than particular threads.
At times, us writers have asked for information on readership of our columns for all the stuff that gets put up on USCHO. Basically, the entire D3 section of USCHO is equal to one major D1 conference section. Important in the sense that D3 brings in as many eyeballs as a major D1 conference, and the subsequent advertising value thereof, but not nearly as many as all of D1. And it's still a lot of readers for D3 no matter how you slice it.
I do agree with the person who said one should always look at how to improve numbers as oppose to what to do with the current numbers. Any good business should be taking that approach.
And I do agree with your statement that D3 followers are committed to their sport as a whole as opposed to any particular conference or team -- in fact I think this is true for any college sport across the board. But, the rebuttal to that is the way the D3 board vs. the D1 board is set up (see my earlier comments), makes it more difficult for a D1 follower to try to follow the entire sport as opposed to just one conference or team.
