Cardinals Fans Have The Worst Grammar In MLB

Our friends over at Grammarly have released their annual data on the worst fan grammar in Major League Baseball.

If you recall, Cardinals fans were the worst at spelling, sentence structure, punctuation and correct grammar in 2015.

I’m happy to report that y’all are BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS!

Let’s go to the scorecard:

If you’re keeping track at home, that’s a whopping 2.2 errors per 100 words.

Here’s the methodology:

We gathered fan 3,000 fan comments (of fifteen words or more) posted to each MLB team’s SB Nation blog between June 1 and June 14, 2016. We then used the Grammarly editor to detect grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation errors in each comment and used the sums to calculate the average number of errors. Updates to Grammarly’s algorithms and an increase in our study sample size changed the numbers game this year. Our 2015 study analyzed 4,500 fan comments from MLB.com. The 2016 study sample size was twenty times that (90,000 total comments.) The larger sample, coupled with our software’s more objective grammar checks, meant that writing scores improved across the board.

Fingers crossed for the three-peat next summer?

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