the buzz log
The World Series is finally set. After dispatching the New York Mets in a seven-game NLCS, the Cardinals flew to Detroit for a date with a well-rested Tigers squad. Prognosticators are picking the Tigers to pluck the Cardinals in short order, but remember the Mets were also favored to beat the boys from St. Louis.
We were curious who'd win when we matched the teams up in Buzz. Turns out the Tigers are also favored by searchers, but we went deeper into the data to uncover some interesting match-ups between baseball's final two teams...
| World Series Searches | |||
| Detroit Tigers | St. Louis Cardinals | Advantage... | |
| Most Popular Player in Search | Magglio Ordonez | Albert Pujols | Cardinals. Pujols is hurting, but he's the likely NL MVP. |
| Team Rank in Searches | Top 400 searches | Top 1000 searches | Tigers. Their run to the World Series has captured more Buzz. |
| Female Fan Factor | 42% of searches from women | 46% of searches from women | Cardinals. The Redbirds hit a home run with the ladies. |
| Oddest Team Search | Mesh Detroit Tigers Jersey | St. Louis Cardinals Pool Balls | Tigers. We should all take a lesson from the International Male catalog and incorporate more mesh into our daily wardrobe. |
| Popular Related Searches | Detroit Tigers Tickets, Detroit Tigers Apparel, and Detroit Tigers Logo | St. Louis Cardinals Wallpaper, St. Louis Cardinals Merchandise, and St. Louis Cardinals Schedule | Push. Both teams are attracting tons of related searches. |
| Searches on Team Logo Thongs in Past Week | Detroit Tigers Thong, 6 | St. Louis Cardinals Thong, 5 | Tigers. By an extremely skimpy margin. |
| The Managers | Jim Leyland | Tony LaRussa | Tigers. Leyland notches about four times as many searches as his best bud LaRussa. |
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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