the buzz log
It's time to discuss one of our most divisive topics. No, not the continued presence of Sanjaya on "American Idol." We're here to discuss something that women have absolutely no interest in. The dreaded topic of fantasy baseball.
Rarely do we see such a wide disparity in male/female searches, but in the case of fantasy baseball we're not surprised. Few females understand the allure of acting like a baseball general manager. Only 7% of queries on "fantasy baseball" come from women, and even that sounds a little high.
We can't think of any topics with a such a dramatic Search imbalance favoring ladies—even soaps such as "General Hospital" earn a more reasonable 75/25 gender split.
Where are these dudes who passionate play fantasy baseball? According to searches, predominately in the Northeast. The three top metros for fantasy searches are all in Massachusetts: New Bedford, Boston, and Springfield. Upstate New York rounds out our top five with strong interest in Albany and Binghamton.
We slogged through our own draft and picked the top ten fantasy searches over the last week. Play ball...
Filed under: Baseball, Fantasy Sports
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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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comments
Posted by spy_foxx | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:33 pm PDT
This girl loves fantasy baseball! I manage my team everyday :) and can't wait for the season to open
Posted by christinaramirez4 | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:35 pm PDT
This female understands the allure and the game. GO ORIOLES!!
Posted by illusionofsunshine | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:40 pm PDT
Obviously men have much more discretionary time on their hands. Real women have real things to do and rarely have time to spend on fantasy activities. Clearly these men need more to do....like say, chores or running the kids back and forth to real baseball games(-:
Posted by rachbrow07 | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:42 pm PDT
My boyfriend plays fantasy baseball. I go along with it, but I tease him. My pastor also plays so they try to gang up on me. I just can't get past the fact that there's "fantasy" in the name. One thing I didn't really think of was that it's like acting as a manager of a team. That makes more sense.
Posted by samplevel | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:42 pm PDT
I played last year and it made me appreciate the game more. It is way more work than football, but I get more out of it. As a sports loving female, this article depresses me..........
Go ORIOLES!!!, though now living in SD I am a PADRES fan as well.
Posted by saoire1972 | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:47 pm PDT
this woman has been managing fantasy baseball teams for 3 yrs now .lowest rank was 7. i am managing 3 teams this year all head to head leagues. It sucks that because of my gender I can never be a baseball manager ( i think i would be good :) )also gender busting news flash!!! i also play baseball am a lefty-switch hitter that can hit to any part of the field both sides, but if i could be anything i would be a pitcher.
Posted by jodiem11 | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:48 pm PDT
My team finished in first place in my division last year. Oh, and I am a female and a crazy baseball fan! Go Tigers!!!
Posted by autocustomsmpks | Tue, March 27, 2007, 1:53 pm PDT
We have a family league every year. Myself, and both my daughter-in-laws really get into it. It makes watching baseball so much fun.
Posted by bobbycrosbysgirl | Tue, March 27, 2007, 2:03 pm PDT
The reason you aren't seeing searches on Fantasy Baseball by women is because real Female baseball fans don't need to search, they KNOW where it is!
This female baseball fan has been playing fantasy baseball for years, more so than many of my Male friends. In fact, I do believe that my current league is almost half female. So where ever you are finding your statistics, I don't think they are very accurate.
GO A'S!!!
Posted by chiggy18 | Tue, March 27, 2007, 2:04 pm PDT
those females are 220 pounds and have a 'lifepartner' named tina. Sorry ladies, women dont care about fantasy baseball. Please have the penis and adams apple removed
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