twofootedtackle Premier League Blog Index, August 2009

Here are the results of the twofootedtackle Index for Premier League bloggers, August 2009.

UPDATE: I received an email from the guys at Caught Offside pointing out that their Technorati Authority is 30, not 1. This is why I don't like to trust Technorati's crappy search engine.

As a result, I have updated the stats below for Caught Offside - I haven't moved the site to its correct ranking, which is 10th.

The stats underneath all this were correct at 20th July 2009. Incidentally, I'd like to turn this into a top 25, so if I've missed any blog you think is worthy of inclusion (within the rules, below), please leave me a comment. Also, if you feel aggrieved to have not been included I'll be happy to run the rule over your site and see if you make it. Just be nice.

The list came from my own blogrolls and a good few hours' searching, so it's not exactly scientific - more of an indicator. Many blogs didn't make the cut.

Under the hood

The twofootedtackle index is based on a series of not-very-complicated sums which were devised to make the maths easier for my feeble brain. I won't go into the calculations, but the important points are:

• The index covers Technorati authority, the number of comments attracted by the last ten relevant posts, the tenure (i.e. age) of the blog and the recency of the latest relevant post


• These factors are weighted. Technorati authority is the most important, followed by tenure, then comments. The recency of the latest relevant post is also factored in quite heavily, so the index numbers of blogs with a week or more since that post are affected significantly


• This is an index, so the highest scoring blog is given a score of 1.00, and the remaining blogs given a score below that based on percentages of the top blog's total

I think that about covers it, so let's get going.

Premier League, August 2009

1. Soccerlens - Technorati Authority: 233, TFT Index: 1.00


2. Who Ate All The Pies - Technorati Authority: 117, TFT Index: 0.65


3. EPL Offside - Technorati Authority: 153, TFT Index: 0.64


4. EPL Talk - Technorati Authority: 119, TFT Index: 0.61


5. Off The Post - Technorati Authority: 86, TFT Index: 0.48


6. Dirty Tackle - Technorati Authority: 84, TFT Index: 0.41


7. Prem Tales - Technorati Authority: 1, TFT Index: 0.40


8. Football Corner - Technorati Authority: 1, TFT Index: 0.36


9. Unprofessional Foul - Technorati Authority: 58, TFT Index: 0.34


10. twohundredpercent - Technorati Authority: 27, TFT Index: 0.24


11. Caught Offside - Technorati Authority: 30, TFT Index: 0.29


12. twofootedtackle - Technorati Authority: 24, TFT Index: 0.18


13. Buzzin Football - Technorati Authority: 18, TFT Index: 0.18


14. Soccerpie - Technorati Authority: 18, TFT Index: 0.17


15. A More Splendid Life - Technorati Authority: 17, TFT Index: 0.13


16. Goalpost.tv - Technorati Authority: 9, TFT Index: 0.11


17. They Think It's All Over - Technorati Authority: 3, TFT Index: 0.11


18. Unsung Heroes - Technorati Authority: 3, TFT Index: 0.08


19. Left Back In The Changing Room - Technorati Authority: 1, TFT Index: 0.04

Notes

Ahmed Bilal's Soccerlens is again top of the pile, with the newly-reignited Who Ate All The Pies doing Ollie Irish proud in second spot, shunting EPL Offside and EPL Talk down a place each. Dirty Tackle is another big mover. New entries are Goalpost.tv and They Think It's All Over, both of which justify their place on the list on an ongoing basis.

The Rules

1. No club-specific blogs
2. No highlights blogs or aggregators
3. Comment scores based on PL posts only
4. Blogs were not included if they have not posted recently
5. Major media outlets excluded
6. Gossip sites excluded
7. Relevancy of posts is at my discretion, but I'm nice about it
8. Blogs without Technorati get an Authority of 1
9. Liveblog posts do not count
10. Larger sites with only one Technorati profile have their full Authority counted