Anyone who has dared to wade into the murky waters of St. Louis sports message boards/comment sections knows that the language can be crude and the thought behind that language even cruder.
Turns out now we have proof.
Our friends over at Grammarly have ranked all 42 professional sports cities and St. Louis ranks 41st with an average of 11.05 mistakes per 100 words typed.
2nd to last! Yikes.
Here’s the methodology:
We began by collecting the first five comments posted under articles on each official MLB, NBA, and NFL team blog from official sports team and sports fan websites, like NFL.com and SB Nation, until we had gathered a total of 100 comments for each team. Each comment contained at least 50 words and was posted within an average timespan of two months ending October 20, 2015.
Using Grammarly, we identified the errors in the comments, which were then verified and tallied by a team of live proofreaders. For the purposes of this study, we counted only black-and-white mistakes such as misspellings, wrong and missing punctuation, misused or missing words, and subject-verb disagreement. We ignored stylistic variations such as the use of common slang words, team and player nicknames, serial comma usage, and the use of numerals instead of spelled-out numbers.
Finally, we calculated the average number of mistakes per one hundred words by dividing the total word count of the comments by the total number of mistakes for each team.
Hey at least we beat Nashville! With KC coming in 40th, Missouri should be proud.
Here’s the full infographic:
Photo: The Daily Banter
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