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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
We are in their hearts, and their minds:
Shame on Oklahoma and Missouri:
While both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made the Big Dance, these two schools only account for 20 of the state’s 77 counties (26 percent). Thirty-three counties went for Kansas (43 percent), while 15 went for Duke or UNC (19 percent). C'mon, the Cowboys are a five-seed!
Missouri is even worse. The Show-Me State is also sending two programs, the University of Missouri and Saint Louis. Saint Louis gets nothing, while the Tigers account for just three of the state's 114 counties (3 percent). That's fewer than went for Duke (five), Illinois (seven), UNC (13), or Kansas (78, or 68 percent). Butler, a mid-major two states away, picks up two counties despite not winning any in Indiana.
Below are the rest of Facebook's NCAA maps, and you can read some more analysis here. Enjoy!
http://deadspin.com/facebook-data-gi...aa-t-456782281 |
That map says more about Facebook doing a shitty job pulling data than anything else.
I suspect if they had pulled the official Mizzou Athletics website data with 420,000 likes (rather than a random and unofficial basketball page with less than 5k likes), things might have tracked differently. Of course, that's nearly 1/2 the likes used to build the map you posted here.
I tried to find the KU sports page that would correspond, but I was unsuccessful. Through a friend who graduated from KU, I found one for the men's hoops team that has about 220k likes (and is not even the official one), but not an all-sports one. Does KU's AD have a Facebook page? How many people have liked it?