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This is an annual ranking done by The Sporting News. This year they included 271 towns. In 2010 Chicago/Evanston was #1, this year Dallas/Ft. Worth got the #1 ranking. Dallas had the Mavs winning the NBA, the Rangers going to the World Series, and TCU going undefeated, winning the Rose Bowl, and finishing #2.

Here are the rating for Ohio towns. Cincinnati #21, Columbus #36, Cleveland #45, Oxford #103, Kent #109, Athens #115, Dayton #125, Akron #126, Bowling Green #187, Toledo #188, Youngstown #209. So Oxford was ranked ahead of all Ohio cities other than the big 3. The sports they would have considered from Miami would be football (MAC and Bowl Champs), hockey (CCHA tournament champs and a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and basketball (second best league record, CBI appearance).

Other MAC cities rankings Philadelphia #3, Detroit/Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti #11, and Buffalo #41. Of course those cities are being ranked primarily for their pro teams. Also Dekalb #112, Kalamazoo #124, Muncie #137, Mount Pleasant #198.

Finishing last at #271 was Lorman, Mississippi, home of Alcorn State's 4-24 basketball team in the nation's worst conference.

(10-12-2011 10:08 PM)DICK Wrote: [ -> ]This is an annual ranking done by The Sporting News. This year they included 271 towns. In 2010 Chicago/Evanston was #1, this year Dallas/Ft. Worth got the #1 ranking. Dallas had the Mavs winning the NBA, the Rangers going to the World Series, and TCU going undefeated, winning the Rose Bowl, and finishing #2.

Here are the rating for Ohio towns. Cincinnati #21, Columbus #36, Cleveland #45, Oxford #103, Kent #109, Athens #115, Dayton #125, Akron #126, Bowling Green #187, Toledo #188, Youngstown #209. So Oxford was ranked ahead of all Ohio cities other than the big 3. The sports they would have considered from Miami would be football (MAC and Bowl Champs), hockey (CCHA tournament champs and a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and basketball (second best league record, CBI appearance).

Other MAC cities rankings Philadelphia #3, Detroit/Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti #11, and Buffalo #41. Of course those cities are being ranked primarily for their pro teams. Also Dekalb #112, Kalamazoo #124, Muncie #137, Mount Pleasant #198.

Finishing last at #271 was Lorman, Mississippi, home of Alcorn State's 4-24 basketball team in the nation's worst conference.

What is their formula?

(10-12-2011 10:08 PM)DICK Wrote: [ -> ]Here are the rating for Ohio towns. Cincinnati #21, Columbus #36, Cleveland #45, Oxford #103, Kent #109, Athens #115, Dayton #125, Akron #126, Bowling Green #187, Toledo #188, Youngstown #209. So Oxford was ranked ahead of all Ohio cities other than the big 3. The sports they would have considered from Miami would be football (MAC and Bowl Champs), hockey (CCHA tournament champs and a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and basketball (second best league record, CBI appearance).

Lima had the National Champions in semi-pro football and the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Champions.

They should have had a little attention.

I need to see that formula because attendance at Toledo sporting events nears the lead in the minor leagues for hockey and baseball.
The arena is rated #1 for facility size and was very high for all sizes. The hockey attendance factors into that equation. (concerts, etc are the rest)
Seems strange.

They did not include their formula this year, but in the past they have mainly stressed big 4 professional sports and division 1 football and basketball and then any other high profile sport for that city (Indy 500 or pro soccer champion or college hockey champion or something like that which was specific to that city). I do not know how much weight they give to minor league sports, if any.