Who are the Current Professional Athletes with the Highest PeekScores?

Posted on May 14, 2013 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.

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	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

The Digital Footprints of the Internet’s Biggest Sports Stars

Posted on May 21, 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.

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	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

The Digital Footprints of Ten of the Greatest Living Legends in Sports

Posted on July 7, 2011 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.

Hello there PeekScore faithful. The premise of this entry could not be simpler. The staff here at the PeekScore blog compiled a list of ten living, international superstar athletes; 7 retired, 3 still active. Each considered at least great by most, and by many considered to be the very greatest of all time at his chosen sport. With the list compiled – after some amount of debate here at the office – we set about sorting these esteemed gentlemen not according to our relatively subjective assessments of their athletic prowess or records, but according to their PeekScores.

To varying degrees each of these gentlemen is a national, and in many cases an international, brand. As such, nearly all has at a minimum an official website, and often a website connected to a more corporate, charitable, and/or commercial venture. All are, to varying degrees, headline worthy and well documented throughout the web, and their mostly healthy PeekScores surely reflect this. Some have official Twitter and/or Facebook accounts, and the international superstar topping our list has both, with followers on each numbering in the millions. In the relatively social media shy company of the remainder of this list, his victory was assured.

I know this is a matter where many have strong opinions. What are yours? Who doesn’t belong on our list? Who would you have included instead? Who might you have expected to see have a higher PeekScore? Or lower? Let us know in the comments.

Rank	Name	Sport	PeekScore
1	Sachin Tendulkar	Cricket	10.00 / 10
2	Tiger Woods	Golf	9.56 / 10
3	Wayne Gretzky	Hockey	9.09 / 10
4	Michael Jordan	Basketball	9.07 / 10
5	Roger Federer	Tennis	8.95 / 10
6	Muhammad Ali	Boxing	8.62 / 10
7	Pelé	Football/Soccer	8.05 / 10
8	Diego Maradona	Football/Soccer	8.05 / 10
9	Jim Brown	NFL Football	8.04 / 10
10	Willie Mays	Baseball	6.01 / 10