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Top 100 Most Valuable Sports Blogs

How much is your sports blog worth? Did it make the top 100? Read this to find out.

I am basing the valuations off DN Scoop, a website that values websites based on links, PR, traffic rank, and other factors. The general valuation for a website on sale is 10-20 times monthly earnings. That can vary based on domain name, branding exposure, etc, but the valuations should be somewhat accurate.

The site only works for entire domains, so blogs hosted on another domain like the Fanhouse won’t qualify. The reason is, this program will look into all links going to the entire AOL domain, not just the sports blog.

Here are the top 100:....

44.) 38 Pitches - $134,724…

72.) Baseball Think Factory - $84,061

Ouch!

Alex Gordon's #1 Fan Posted: May 29, 2008 at 05:14 PM | 33 comment(s)
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1. Craig K, Cardinals late-inning reliever Posted: May 29, 2008 at 05:47 PM (#2798845)

I read 1,2,5,7,15,24,72,81,90,96,97.

2. ACE1242 Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:16 PM (#2798879)

Jesus Melendez demands a recount.

3. Guapo Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:24 PM (#2798885)

We have a bunch of ####### babies here who don't know how to ####### post. They don't know how to ####### post witty and intelligent comments, how to click on the ####### ads, link this blog to other ####### blogs, and help this blog be ranked the way it's supposed to be ranked. And that's the problem here. Now I know why this ####### blog is #72.

*throws chair*

4. Dingbat Charlie Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:27 PM (#2798888)

the post-to-laugh ratio is starting out strong.

crap, I just killed it.

5. North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:33 PM (#2798893)

That just can't be right. #72?

Also, #39 is excellent.

6. Craig K, Cardinals late-inning reliever Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:41 PM (#2798896)

Also, #39 is excellent.

Funny, too; nice draft analysis as well.

7. Halofan Posted: May 29, 2008 at 06:49 PM (#2798902)

How much is that bloggy in the window?

If you are me, $123,424 ... but for you my frenn, I can make goooood price.

8. E., Hinske Posted: May 29, 2008 at 07:00 PM (#2798907)

Man, why does everyone have to hate on the NHL? According to dnScoop, my site is worth $39,240. Am I listed? No. #######.

9. Toolsy McClutch Posted: May 29, 2008 at 07:40 PM (#2798931)

I have visited most of those sites less than twice.

10. B. Selig Posted: May 29, 2008 at 07:54 PM (#2798944)

BTF is a blog?

11. Esoteric roots for the two worst teams in baseball Posted: May 29, 2008 at 07:56 PM (#2798945)

Obviously flawed. Lookout Landing (one of the two major Mariners blogs) should be ranked #25 according to the site used by these guys...yet it's not even listed.

12. Rough Carrigan Posted: May 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM (#2799280)

Where are numbers 46-49?

13. kevin Posted: May 29, 2008 at 10:50 PM (#2799288)

Baseball Musings is worth $2 mil? David Pinto must be smiling.

And Deadspin 16 mil???? Criminy, if Buzz Bissinger was pissed before, that will send him into paroxyxms of violent rage.

14. zonk Posted: May 29, 2008 at 11:12 PM (#2799316)

Does this mean Jim is sending us all checks?

15. Gamingboy Posted: May 29, 2008 at 11:15 PM (#2799319)

I'll give you five dollars.

16. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: May 30, 2008 at 01:15 AM (#2799384)

I'd probably post more than five or six times a month if I thought I could con some sucker into giving me six figures for my blog.

17. jonathan (Joseph HannaCust) Posted: May 30, 2008 at 04:10 AM (#2799428)

Yeah, it surprised me at first when sites like Athletics Nation and Lookout Landing didn't crack the top 100 and a place like Gaslamp Ball, a less popular blog on the very same network, did. AN clocks in at $236,944 according to dnScoop, and LL at $213,696.

Freedarko, a popular basketball blog, is apparently worth $1,248,154, but not worthy of inclusion in the Top 100.

Whoever runs the Juiced Sports Blog didn't do much homework.

18. Padraic Posted: May 30, 2008 at 06:52 AM (#2799437)

There must be some problem with the methodology.

The Good Phight, a solid Phillies blog with excellent original posts, comes in #30, but Beerleaguer, another Phillies blog which receives about 20X the amount of comments, was not listed.

19. Rafael Santana Montana (Dan Lee) Posted: May 30, 2008 at 08:00 AM (#2799444)

Excellent.

My site (thejamootz.com), which started as a blog but hasn't been used in the last 18 months as anything more than a place for me to store files, is worth more than $6,000.

I'll take $2,000 though, if anyone wants to make an offer.

20. Shooty misses Bill King Posted: May 30, 2008 at 08:22 AM (#2799451)

My site (thejamootz.com), which started as a blog but hasn't been used in the last 18 months as anything more than a place for me to store files, is worth more than $6,000.

I'll take $2,000 though, if anyone wants to make an offer.

Ooh! An arbitrage opportunity!

21. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: May 30, 2008 at 09:14 AM (#2799475)

Nice showing for THT.

22. GGC won't apologize for liking the Red Sox Posted: May 30, 2008 at 09:31 AM (#2799480)

This won't count something on blogger or wordpress, right?

23. Repoz Posted: May 30, 2008 at 09:35 AM (#2799483)

Even Cosloy at Can't Stop the Bleeding has trouble believing the numbers.

I don’t mean to doubt the veracity of any public claim that CSTB is worth $1,470,044.00. But if someone offered me a tenth of that amount to turn over the entire operation, I’d be outta hear faster than you could say “speed and cruelty”.

24. Randy Jones Posted: May 30, 2008 at 09:44 AM (#2799489)

Even Cosloy at Can't Stop the Bleeding has trouble believing the numbers.

You have to remember that these numbers are in "internet money".

25. Jim Furtado Posted: May 30, 2008 at 09:50 AM (#2799493)

These valuations make Beckett's card values look realistic. According to the dnsscoop.com web site, baseballthinkfactory.org is worth $544,216. Wow! If anyone wants to pony up, pass along your email and phone number via the feedback link.

26. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:04 AM (#2799500)

Jim, if Cuban doesn't get the Cubs, maybe you could interest him in the next best thing.

27. kevin Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM (#2799502)

If anyone wants to pony up, pass along your email and phone number via the feedback link.

Do you take credit, Jim?

28. flournoy Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:13 AM (#2799504)

I read exactly one of those blogs: this one.

29. Shooty misses Bill King Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:15 AM (#2799508)

How do they determine how much a blog is worth? My presence here should be worth at least a million, I'd think.

30. Shooty misses Bill King Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM (#2799512)

I read exactly one of those blogs: this one.

But this blog contains multitudes of blogs! It's the Borg of Blogs.

31. GGC won't apologize for liking the Red Sox Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM (#2799514)

How do they determine how much a blog is worth? My presence here should be worth at least a million, I'd think.

Laugh if you must, but you're one of the guys who entices me to click on a thread when you're the last poster. You and Bob Dernier Ressort.

32. Shooty misses Bill King Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:27 AM (#2799523)

Laugh if you must, but you're one of the guys who entices me to click on a thread when you're the last poster. You and Bob Dernier Ressort.

I knew there was something about you I liked. I thought at first it was your hair and that sly smile, but now I can see it's your good taste.

33. Jim Furtado Posted: May 30, 2008 at 01:00 PM (#2799729)

How do they determine how much a blog is worth? My presence here should be worth at least a million, I'd think.

The dnsscoop.com places the value at $1.6 trillion. You'll have to see them for payment. Unlike their valuation formula, my checking account is constrained to real world accounting practices. :(

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