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<blockquote data-quote="skygusty_rivals" data-source="post: 129527108" data-attributes="member: 1500287"><p>They don't document the methodology.&nbsp; Are bowls excluded from their statistics?&nbsp; What effect did participation in the 4 team playoff have?&nbsp; When Nielsen lists a stat like 4.02 million, TCU vs Texas OR Wisconsin VS Purdue did they just split the difference between 4 teams and two conferences or credit all teams/conferences with 4.02 million in viewership?&nbsp; Does Notre Dame get included with the ACC or not? Did they calculate the averages week by week and average that or average all data after the regular season?&nbsp; Are games from the LHN included? Did they average by team first and then by conference?&nbsp; Did conference games have the same weighting as non conference games?&nbsp; What does P2 + 000 mean on your 2015 source?&nbsp; Are conference championship games included?&nbsp; It is easy to use the same source of data and come up with wildly different numbers if you aren't using the same methodology.&nbsp; I'd be willing to accept any but the 2015 data as reasonable since the variation from year to year is within a plausible range.&nbsp; 2015 is an outlier at best.&nbsp; It gets tossed out.&nbsp; I really have no idea who gets the most eyeballs on the conference games nor do I much care to tease out all of the nuances that affect viewership.&nbsp; As more games become available over the internet the data will be increasingly unreliable because Nielsen won't capture that.&nbsp; Whether the Big12 makes the playoffs and wins the National Championship is really the only thing that matters.&nbsp; Success will breed success, failure will not.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="skygusty_rivals, post: 129527108, member: 1500287"] They don't document the methodology. Are bowls excluded from their statistics? What effect did participation in the 4 team playoff have? When Nielsen lists a stat like 4.02 million, TCU vs Texas OR Wisconsin VS Purdue did they just split the difference between 4 teams and two conferences or credit all teams/conferences with 4.02 million in viewership? Does Notre Dame get included with the ACC or not? Did they calculate the averages week by week and average that or average all data after the regular season? Are games from the LHN included? Did they average by team first and then by conference? Did conference games have the same weighting as non conference games? What does P2 + 000 mean on your 2015 source? Are conference championship games included? It is easy to use the same source of data and come up with wildly different numbers if you aren't using the same methodology. I'd be willing to accept any but the 2015 data as reasonable since the variation from year to year is within a plausible range. 2015 is an outlier at best. It gets tossed out. I really have no idea who gets the most eyeballs on the conference games nor do I much care to tease out all of the nuances that affect viewership. As more games become available over the internet the data will be increasingly unreliable because Nielsen won't capture that. Whether the Big12 makes the playoffs and wins the National Championship is really the only thing that matters. Success will breed success, failure will not. [/QUOTE]

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