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Who are the Current Professional Athletes with the Highest PeekScores?

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

It’s been a while since we’ve done a list like this, but the good folks over at Forbes suggested this, and it seemed like a great idea. Forbes recently featured their list of who they determined to be 2013′s Most Influential Athletes (which you can read all about here). They asked that we compile our own list of the athletes with the highest PeekScores, for the purposes of comparing their list to ours. This sounded like a fun and perhaps even illuminating undertaking.

What PeekScores measure are digital impacts and presences; or “digital footprints,” as we call them (a concept you will find explained in brief in the header above, and more in depth here). The names on this fairly surprising list speak loudly and clearly to nothing so much as the truly international nature of the Web. Fewer than half the names on the list are Americans, and a sizable portion play a sport which — while the most popular sport in the world by a healthy margin — is quite famously all but ignored in the states.

The breakdown, for those keeping score, is:

7 soccer players
5 basketball players
4 tennis players
2 race car drivers
1 boxer
1 cricketer
1 snowboarder
1 golfer
1 sprinter
1 swimmer
1 NFL football player

While we’re certain this list is bound to irk some and tickle others (although we remind you that this list reflects no opinions whatsoever), we suggest that you share your feelings in the comment section here and let us know all about it, either way.

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese soccer player for Spanish team Real Madrid 10.00 / 10.00
2

Sebastian Vettel German Formula One racing driver 10.00 / 10.00
3

David Beckham English footballer who currently plays for French team Paris Saint-Germain 10.00 / 10.00
4

Lebron James American basketball player for the NBA’s Miami Heat  10.00 / 10.00
5

Kobe Bryant American basketball player for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers 10.00 / 10.00
6

Lionel Messi Argentine soccer player who plays for the Spanish team FC Barcelona 9.96 / 10.00
7

Tiger Woods American golfer 9.95 / 10.00
8

Maria Sharapova Russian tennis player 9.67 / 10.00
9

Serena Williams American tennis player 9.61 / 10.00
10

Didier Drogba Ivorian footballer who plays for Turkish team Galatasaray 9.36 / 10.00
11

Manny Pacquiao Filipino boxer and politican 9.28 / 10.00
12

Kevin Durant American basketball player for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder 9.27 / 10.00
13

Roger Federer Swiss tennis player 9.26 / 10.00
14

Wayne Rooney English soccer player for the Premier League team Manchester United 9.20 / 10.00
15

Sachin Tendulkar Indian cricketer 9.18 / 10.00
16

Fernando Torres Spanish soccer player who plays for the Premier League team Chelsea 9.17 / 10.00
17

Rafael Nadal Spanish tennis player 9.16 / 10.00
18

Kaká Brazilian soccer player who plays for the Spanish team Real Madrid 9.15 / 10.00
19

Usain Bolt Jamaican sprinter 9.13 / 10.00
20

Peyton Manning American football player for the NFL’s Denver Broncos 9.10 / 10.00
21

Shaun White American snowboarder 9.09 / 10.00
22

Danica Patrick American racing driver 9.05 / 10.00
23

Carmelo Anthony American basketball player for the NBA’s New York Knicks 9.02 / 10.00
24

Chris Paul American basketball player for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers 8.99 / 10.00
25

Michael Phelps American swimmer 8.90 / 10.00

Which of the NBA’s Top Point Guards has the Largest Digital Footprint?

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

The question posed by this entry’s title really says it all. The NBA season is now underway, and it seemed a fine time to start seeing how the league’s various stars are making their marks here in cyberspace. Here, using our PeekScore scale, we’ve pitted these fine athletes against each other off the court and instead in the realm of the virtual and cyber. Not comparing their athletic abilities, nor their salaries, nor even the substantial sizes of their actual footprints, we’re looking at the “digital footprints” of each of these gentlemen; a concept you will find explained in brief above, or more in depth by clicking through here.

Rank Picture Name Team PeekScore
1

Chris Paul Los Angeles Clippers 9.14 / 10.00
2

Derrick Rose Chicago Bulls 9.10 / 10.00
3

Steve Nash Los Angeles Lakers 9.02 / 10.00
4

Tony Parker San Antonio Spurs 8.75 / 10.00
5

Rajon Rondo Boston Celtics 8.54 / 10.00
6

Deron Williams Brooklyn Nets 8.36 / 10.00
7

Russell Westbrook OKC Thunder 8.22 / 10.00
8

Kyrie Irving Cleveland Cavaliers 8.18 / 10.00
9

Mike Conley, Jr. Memphis Grizzlies 8.05 / 10.00
10

Jrue Holiday Philadelphia 76ers 8.03 / 10.00

A Comparison of the Online Lives of the World’s Top-Paid Athletes

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

The inspiration for today’s list could not be simpler: Below are the ten athletes who were highest paid during this past year. In keeping with the kinds of things we get up to here at the PeekScore blog, we’ve decided to see to what degree the respective compensations of these individuals corresponds to their various visibilities, activities, impacts, and presences here in cyberspace (in other words, we’re assessing their digital footprints; a brief explanation of which can be found above, and a more in depth one can be found by clicking through here). We already know that in the case of some of the individuals listed below, there are those out there who don’t believe their athletic abilities alone have gone very far in justifying their arguably unseemly, and objectively handsome, paydays. But what of these athletes’ efforts and abilities to reach their spotty, slouchy lessers out here in the ever-expanding, in both size and import, online realm? The PeekScores provide their answers, scientifically and objectively as always.

Who do you like on this list? Who would you have preferred to see on this list? Who do you believe should be the top earning athletes? Comment and let us know.

Rank Picture Name Earnings this past year PeekScore
1

LeBron James $53 mil 10.00 / 10.00
2

Cristiano Ronaldo $42.5 mil 10.00 / 10.00
3

Kobe Bryant $52.3 mil 9.99 / 10.00
4

David Beckham $46 mil 9.98 / 10.00
5

Tiger Woods $59.4 mil 9.96 / 10.00
6

Roger Federer $52.7 mil 9.58 / 10.00
7

Manny Pacquiao $62 mil 9.28 / 10.00
8

Peyton Manning $42.4 mil 9.1 / 10.00
9

Floyd Mayweather $85 mil 8.74 / 10.00
10

Jeremy Renner $47.8 mil 8.20 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of the Internet’s Biggest Sports Stars

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

Any one of the names below will grant you millions upon millions of hits on most of the major web search engines, and each of the men featured on this list has millions of followers on Twitter and/or Facebook, and often both. At this moment in time, these are the ten individual athletes making the greatest impacts here in cyberspace. We are surprised and excited to see that the list is so diverse in terms of the nations included (if not in terms of the sports represented, with soccer and basketball dominating, tennis coming up the rear, and cricket making a somewhat unexpected appearance).

Given the enormous global fame of the folks on this list, a large portion of them are currently graded with our ultimate PeekScore of 10. The 10 is a rare score, but this is a rare bunch of global super-celebrities. While very slight, there is a teensy bit of wiggle room near the ceiling of our digital footprint scoring scale. The order these athletes are listed in below is accurate, and as a result, in this case the story comes from the rankings more so than the scores themselves.

(You can learn about the PeekScore in brief by reading the disclaimer at the top of this entry, or more in depth by clicking through here.)

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Cristiano Ronaldo Captain of the Portugal national soccer team 10.00 / 10.00
2

David Beckham English soccer player, model, all-around famous guy 10.00 / 10.00
3

Kobe Bryant Shooting guard for the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers 10.00 / 10.00
4

Michael Jordan Retired basketball superstar, widely considered the sport’s all-time greatest player 10.00 / 10.00
5

Lionel Messi Captain of the Argentina national soccer team 10.00 / 10.00
6

Roger Federer Winner of a record 16 men’s Grand Slam tennis finals 10.00 / 10.00
7

LeBron James Superstar player for the NBA’s Miami Heat 10.00 / 10.00
8

Sachin Tendulkar Indian cricketer, and a household name in any country where the sport is played 9.59 / 10.00
9

Rafael Nadal Winner of 10 Grand Slam men’s tennis finals 9.58 / 10.00
10

Shaquille O’Neal Retired NBA superstar, and a trailblazer in terms of celebrity social networking 9.57 / 10.00

Which of the 2012 NBA All-Star Starters has the largest PeekScore?

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What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

On Sunday, February 26, the 2012 NBA All-Star Game will be taking place. Doing as we do things around here, we’ve decided to take the starting line-ups for each conference’s team, and toss them all together in a ten-man PeekScore list.

As a reminder, and for first time visitors, this is not a measurement of these gentleman’s abilities on the court, nor is it an assessment of their wealth or sizes. This is a comparison of their respective impacts here on the Web, quantified from 1 to 10, according to our PeekScore scale (a more in-depth explanation of which can be found above, and by clicking through here).

Any surprises for you below? Any reserve players you’d like to also see included? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Position, Conference PeekScore
1

LeBron James Forward, East 10.00 / 10.00
2

Kobe Bryant Guard, West 10.00 / 10.00
3

Carmelo Anthony Forward, East 9.45 / 10.00
4

Kevin Durant Forward, West 9.43 / 10.00
5

Chris Paul Guard, West 9.35 / 10.00
6

Dwight Howard Center, East 9.31 / 10.00
7

Derrick Rose Guard, East 9.28 / 10.00
8

Blake Griffin Forward, West 9.01 / 10.00
9

Dwayne Wade Guard, East 8.78 / 10.00
10

Andrew Bynum Center, West 8.66 / 10.00