This is in response to Bex’s recent media about league activity, a response in so far that I think she left out stats about our Twitter Community despite also having weekly claim threads. Though I guess that’d be partly redundant to use the Twitter Claim Threads on top of the Activity Checks. So I will thank Bex for leaving out Twitter Activity data so that I could post my own media and earn some additional moneys in my petty attempt to climb up the Bank Leaderboard. As the current Head of Twitter and the one that has revived @NSFLFootball account, I don’t think there’s anyone more qualified to present the related data.
To begin let us take a look back from where the League’s Twitter program started. The current League Twitter account @NSFLFootball was first created in September 2017, so about two and half years ago some time during Season 03 from what I can tell from cross referencing forum post dates. After an acceptable month of activity it was forgotten. For some reason despite not having an active League Account, the league decided we should award users for making tweets. So the first claim thread was posted in December 2017, which is also when someone remembered we have a league account and started tweeting again. The account remained active into March 2018, but over the next eleven months a total of 10 tweets were made from the account.
So let’s skip those eleven months and we find ourselves in March 2019. Anyone care to guess what league event occured at the time that would prompt someone to start using the League Account again? Anyone? Congrats you are correct, the 117 player S15 class which included myself. Looking back on that time I’m actually surprised our class held the retention that we did. A lot of league processes took… to be kind, a lot of time to be completed. I remember both graphics and media taking like a whole month to be graded and processed. Now I’m in awe of how quickly my media gets paid out. So all the league departments should get a round of applause.
Looking specifically at Twitter Claims at that time when the S15 Class created I remember hearing that Twitter Claims hadn’t been paid out for multiple months. Again, I’m surprised S15 retention was as good as it was. S15 was the first class since S1 to be over 100 players, according to the wiki draft pages. So like all the other departments that all these new rookies were calling out for being slow, Twitter also attempted to make changes. The department caught up on the delay of paying out claims, and someone remembered that there was a League Twitter account still! March 2019 was the most active the account had been since March 2018. It was also the first month the account posted original graphics about the league. And then it was forgotten about for the third time. During that period of account inactivity, we had another 100+ player class (S18). The account stayed dormant to mid November 2019. So for a stretch of 19 months the account made a total of 20 tweets, 10 occuring in a single month.
November 2019 is when I enter the picture and start tweeting from the league account. During the last six months that I’ve been running the account, the league has had 3 of the 7 largest draft classes in league history. Coincidence, I think yes. However, I do conclude that having the account active has been the predominant reason we have seen continual growth in replies to the weekly Twitter Claim threads.
Table 1
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Graph A
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Graph B
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In both graphs I combined Weekly Twitter Claim threads by the month that the first day of the claim thread is in. So if a Claim Thread is for January 30th - February 5th, that thread would be added to January. Twitter provides very easy data for how many tweets are made per month. I could have broken it down by week, but that would make the number of dates along the x-axis incredibly clustered. No one wants to have 100+ data points along the x-axis. Secondly because claim threads are weekly instead of monthly, and people are capable of forgetting to claim a week, I average the replies for each month. So if January had five claim threads, I took average the number of replies for those five threads.
The x-axis and left y-axis remain the same for each graph, but the right y-axis subject data changes.
Comparing the data from Table 1, Graph A and Graph B there is only one trend that is consistent through the data, when the league twitter account is active, the number of replies to the Weekly Claim Thread increases.
Class size does not automatically lead to an increase in replies to the Weekly Claim Thread, which is shown by the number of replies does not increase before, during or immediately after the S18 class. While an increase in replies occured when S15 joined, the league twitter account was also active during that period; again reinforcing that Claim Thread Replies increases when the League Twitter account is active.
It has been a lot of fun seeing the league become active on twitter. We now have an active account for every single team, something that I think has helped contribute to the increase in claim replies, despite team twitter activity not being included in the data I’m sharing. Before an actual Twitter Department was created, team accounts were created by random users whenever a user or team thought it would be fun to have an account. However such accounts were never passed on to new team members and passwords would be forgotten/lost, as such Yellowknife, Colorado and Arizona are on their third or fourth account as the previous ones are now inactive and passwords lost.
All of this to say thank you to all my Team Twitter Reps, but also to all you users and players on twitter being active and creating another dimension outside of the forums and discord for people to be engaged and feel involved with the league.
To begin let us take a look back from where the League’s Twitter program started. The current League Twitter account @NSFLFootball was first created in September 2017, so about two and half years ago some time during Season 03 from what I can tell from cross referencing forum post dates. After an acceptable month of activity it was forgotten. For some reason despite not having an active League Account, the league decided we should award users for making tweets. So the first claim thread was posted in December 2017, which is also when someone remembered we have a league account and started tweeting again. The account remained active into March 2018, but over the next eleven months a total of 10 tweets were made from the account.
So let’s skip those eleven months and we find ourselves in March 2019. Anyone care to guess what league event occured at the time that would prompt someone to start using the League Account again? Anyone? Congrats you are correct, the 117 player S15 class which included myself. Looking back on that time I’m actually surprised our class held the retention that we did. A lot of league processes took… to be kind, a lot of time to be completed. I remember both graphics and media taking like a whole month to be graded and processed. Now I’m in awe of how quickly my media gets paid out. So all the league departments should get a round of applause.
Looking specifically at Twitter Claims at that time when the S15 Class created I remember hearing that Twitter Claims hadn’t been paid out for multiple months. Again, I’m surprised S15 retention was as good as it was. S15 was the first class since S1 to be over 100 players, according to the wiki draft pages. So like all the other departments that all these new rookies were calling out for being slow, Twitter also attempted to make changes. The department caught up on the delay of paying out claims, and someone remembered that there was a League Twitter account still! March 2019 was the most active the account had been since March 2018. It was also the first month the account posted original graphics about the league. And then it was forgotten about for the third time. During that period of account inactivity, we had another 100+ player class (S18). The account stayed dormant to mid November 2019. So for a stretch of 19 months the account made a total of 20 tweets, 10 occuring in a single month.
November 2019 is when I enter the picture and start tweeting from the league account. During the last six months that I’ve been running the account, the league has had 3 of the 7 largest draft classes in league history. Coincidence, I think yes. However, I do conclude that having the account active has been the predominant reason we have seen continual growth in replies to the weekly Twitter Claim threads.
Table 1
Graph A
Graph B
In both graphs I combined Weekly Twitter Claim threads by the month that the first day of the claim thread is in. So if a Claim Thread is for January 30th - February 5th, that thread would be added to January. Twitter provides very easy data for how many tweets are made per month. I could have broken it down by week, but that would make the number of dates along the x-axis incredibly clustered. No one wants to have 100+ data points along the x-axis. Secondly because claim threads are weekly instead of monthly, and people are capable of forgetting to claim a week, I average the replies for each month. So if January had five claim threads, I took average the number of replies for those five threads.
The x-axis and left y-axis remain the same for each graph, but the right y-axis subject data changes.
Comparing the data from Table 1, Graph A and Graph B there is only one trend that is consistent through the data, when the league twitter account is active, the number of replies to the Weekly Claim Thread increases.
Class size does not automatically lead to an increase in replies to the Weekly Claim Thread, which is shown by the number of replies does not increase before, during or immediately after the S18 class. While an increase in replies occured when S15 joined, the league twitter account was also active during that period; again reinforcing that Claim Thread Replies increases when the League Twitter account is active.
It has been a lot of fun seeing the league become active on twitter. We now have an active account for every single team, something that I think has helped contribute to the increase in claim replies, despite team twitter activity not being included in the data I’m sharing. Before an actual Twitter Department was created, team accounts were created by random users whenever a user or team thought it would be fun to have an account. However such accounts were never passed on to new team members and passwords would be forgotten/lost, as such Yellowknife, Colorado and Arizona are on their third or fourth account as the previous ones are now inactive and passwords lost.
All of this to say thank you to all my Team Twitter Reps, but also to all you users and players on twitter being active and creating another dimension outside of the forums and discord for people to be engaged and feel involved with the league.
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