1. The Mag’s Ultimate Standings 2013
By: Drew Miller

2. What are the Ultimate Standings?
Started ten years ago, and is a four step approach to configure the team that has the best return on investment from the fans perspective
All teams from NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB are included
These standings combine fan perspectives across 7 different categories and then determine how teams convert fan revenue into wins
Categories: Title track, Ownership, Stadium Experience, Coaching, Players, Affordability, Fan Relations, Bang for the Buck

3. How the process works
Chicago consulting firm Maddock Douglas surveyed fans to see what they want in return for their money, emotion, and time they invest
ESPN.com and NetReflector asked fans to rate their favorite teams online in each category
For the last category, bang for your buck, calculations were developed by researchers from the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center
To come up with the final figures, Keating and his colleagues combined each teams score across the eight categories to come up with a weighted average

4. The Winner: Memphis Grizzlies
How Memphis ranked in each category
Bang for your buck-2
Fan Relations-8
Ownership -30
Affordability-2
Stadium experience-7
Players-2
Coaching- 14
Title Track-54

5. Last Place: Sacramento Kings
Coaching- 117
Players- 122
Fan Relations- 122
Affordability- 104
Stadium Experience- 122
Title Track-116
Ownership-121
Bang for the Buck-89

6. Questions?
How would you all rank the Titans?
Predators?

7. Class Dismissed!!
Enjoy the game!!

8. References
Keating, P. (September 23, 2013). The Mag’s Ultimate Standing’s Retrieved from