Back in February I talked a bit about choosing teams to dislike least. This week kicks off the Rocky Mountain Cup in Colorado so I thought I’d revisit disliked teams. Last month the Know Rivalry Project reached out to me with quantitative research and polling information about rivalries around US sports, including—and here’s the big surprise, folks!—MLS teams. With our rivalry match this weekend, I thought it a good time to take a look at some rivalry data.
Here are the basics of the numbers. Sports fans were given 100 points to allocate toward their individual rivalries.