Note: People Like the Confidence Rating
During the B.S. Report podcast with ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, Baseball Tonight’s producer Gus Ramsey said the following…
“I was on MetsBlog.com, which is a great resource for all Mets fans, and all winter long the guy posts the Mets Fan Confidence Rating based on polling and stuff. And it had been hovering around six the entire off-season. Today it’s up to about 8.3. So that’s where we are at.”
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…jeez, people love that Confidence Rating…which fascinates me…
…in fact, i just learned that people fairly high up with the Mets actually keep an eye on it…which is awesome, but scary, in that it’s far from a scientific poll…frankly, i had been considering switching it to the Excitement Rating, or something to that effect, and just letting fans vote on whether they’re excited to be a Mets fan or not, since that’s a far more simple and emotional idea…
…but, at this point, there is no turning back…
…also, because i keep getting this question on e-mail, the Rating is based on a poll…it is not my personal opinion…i’m not sure how people miss it, but, every Tuesday or Wednesday i run the poll…the thing is, i post so damn much on this site, i suspect people blink and the poll is gone, even though a good 5,000 votes are typically submitted…in the future, i’ll try to post it in the morning and again in the afternoon…
