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

Posted on November 28, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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	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

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

Posted on February 22, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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	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

Which NBA Superstar Has the Highest PeekScore?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by PeekYou Team

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.

The 2011-2012 NBA season is now a couple of months under way, but we here at the PeekScore blog have been remiss in our duties to give the men of professional basketball, and their various digital footprints, a looking at and a quantifying. Indeed, it’s been months since we’ve compiled such a survey.

As the list below consists exclusively of superstars, it’s not surprising that each comes with a sizable PeekScore – with our top two all-stars carrying our ultimate PeekScore of 10 – but within that somewhat narrow range there are differences in cyber-impact to be observed.

As is always the case here at the blog, this isn’t a commentary on the qualities of these gentlemen as basketball players, or as personalities, or as men, we’re simply observing and reporting on how their respective impacts here in the digital realm compare to one another.

We know some of you folks out there will have something to say. Chime in. Let us know who you’d like to have seen on this list. Leave us a comment and let us know who you like, or who you don’t.

Rank	Name	Team	PeekScore
1	LeBron James	Miami Heat	10.00 / 10.00
2	Kobe Bryant	Los Angeles Lakers	10.00 / 10.00
3	Carmelo Anthony	New York Knicks	9.45 / 10.00
4	Kevin Durant	Oklahoma City Thunder	9.43 / 10.00
5	Chris Paul	Los Angeles Clippers	9.35 / 10.00
6	Dwight Howard	Orlando Magic	9.31 / 10.00
7	Derrick Rose	Chicago Bulls	9.28 / 10.00
8	Amar’e Stoudemire	New York Knicks	9.09 / 10.00
9	Dirk Nowitzki	Dallas Mavericks	8.98 / 10.00
10	Dwayne Wade	Miami Heat	8.83 / 10.00

Top 10 Players Remaining in the 2011 NBA Playoffs

Posted on May 13, 2011 by PeekYou Team

Today, an urgently worded interoffice memo crossed the very long desk of the PeekScore blog collective (the puzzling and poorly thought through logistics of which are explained in excruciating detail here). This block-capitalized, and sparingly punctuated (apart from five smudged exclamation points at its close) communiqué was intended to announce to the PeekScore staff, in terms lacking ambiguity (or much in the way of reasonable choice), that the “powers that be” would like for the PeekScore blog to again write about basketball, and “DO ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU DO WITH THE NUMBERS AND ALL THAT BUT WITH LIKE LEBRON AND STUFF.” This, nothing if not impassioned, dispatch from on high then added that its author, for whom we all happen to work, would also like for us to compose this proposed entry about basketball “…WELL” (partial quote with expletives excised, as – despite the fact that they comprised the memo’s bulk – they really added little apart from some color). Finally, after sharing a desired timeline for completion of this project, a provisional – although somewhat insincere seeming, to be honest – best wishes in our “VERY PROBABLE” near-future job searches was provided as a sign-off.

Through heavy sobs, and amidst panicked phone calls home to spouses, significant others, children, and even one estranged sibling, to make certain they knew how much we loved them (just in case), we hastily debated, and finally compiled – through fits and faints and at least one emergency room visit – our list of the top 10 NBA stars who remain, as of this writing, in the playoffs. The list is below.

We are aware that the “bio” blurbs below are rather dry and straightforward – as opposed to insightful and visionary, as they usually are – but we were told, under what could arguably be described as coercion, not to be “STUPID LIKE YOU ALWAYS ARE.” Not quite certain what was meant by that, we’re not taking any chances. We had, with a previous NBA related list, attempted more thoughtful captions, but the intern we assigned to write them didn’t know much about basketball and wound up compensating for the lapse by making a bunch of distasteful puns out of the players’ names (for example: “Paul Pierce should really be called Pol Pot for the way he dominates the court with an iron fist, and cleanses the floor with the opposing team”, or “José Juan Barea dribbles like he’s got a bad case of José Juan Diarrhea of the hands”… truly, truly awful stuff). It’s better this way, trust us.

Who did we miss? Who would you have included? How do you feel about the order of this list? Who’d be your number one? Do you hate basketball? Let us know in the comments.

Picture	Name	Bio	PeekScore
	LeBron James	9.66 out of 10. With too many accolades to pick just one, James has – not without some well publicized controversy – been with the Heat since 2010.
	Dwayne Wade	9.63 out of 10. Sports Illustrated‘s Sportsman of the Year in 2006, Wade has been with the Heat since 2003.
	Kevin Durant	9.35 out of 10. The ’07-’08 NBA Rookie of the Year, Durant has been with the Oklahoma City Thunder (formerly Seattle SuperSonics) since 2007.
	Mike Conley Jr.	8.13 out of 10. A first round draft pick out of Ohio State, Conley has been with the Grizzlies since 2007
	Dirk Nowitzki	8.06 out of 10. A ten time NBA All-Star, Nowitzki has been with the Mavericks since 1998.
	Derrick Rose	7.24 out of 10. The ’08-’09 NBA Rookie of the Year, Rose has been with the Bulls since 2008.
	Peja Stojaković	7.04 out of 10. A three time NBA All-Star, Stojaković has only been with the Mavericks since earlier this year.
	Zach Randolph	7.01 out of 10. An NBA All-Star in 2010, Randolph has been with the Grizzlies since 2009.
	DeShawn Stevenson	6.37 out of 10.Coming to the NBA straight out of high school, back in 2000, Stevenson has been with he Mavericks since 2010.
	José Juan Barea	5.45 out of 10. CAA Player of the Year in 2006, Barea has been with the Mavericks since 2007.