Deadspin Valued at Over $16 Million

How much is your sports blog worth? Did it make the top 100? Read this to find out.

I am basing the valuations off DN Scoop, a website that values websites based on links, PR, traffic rank, and other factors. The general valuation for a website on sale is 10-20 times monthly earnings. That can vary based on domain name, branding exposure, etc, but the valuations should be somewhat accurate.

The site only works for entire domains, so blogs hosted on another domain like the Fanhouse won’t qualify. The reason is, this program will look into all links going to the entire AOL domain, not just the sports blog.

Here are the top 100:

EDIT: Every Day Should be Saturday is actually valued at $1,843,744, not $31,360, however, it’s alternate domain, edsbs.com, was valued at $31,360.

1.) Deadspin – $16,567,150
2.) Baseball Prospectus – $3,325,020
3.) Blog Maverick – $2,426,316
4.) Baseball Musings – $2,021,668
5.) Hardball Times – $1,954,316
6.) The Big Lead – $1,833,380
7.) With Leather – $1,802,000
8.) Sports by Brooks – $1,656,200
9.) Can’t Stop the Bleeding – $1,470,044
10.) Mister Irrelevant – $1,367,296
11.) The Offside – $1,337,720
12.) We Are the Postmen – $1,319,772
13.) Dan Shanoff – $1,306,768
14.) Sunday Morning QB – $1,283,448
15.) Kissing Suzy Kolber – $1,265,046
16.) Deuce of Davenport – $845,424
17.) Mets Blog – $942,820
18.) Larry Brown Sports – $893,800
19.) Brahsome – $840,274
20.) MLB Trade Rumors – $505,760
22.) The Starting Five – $401,100
23.) Pro Football Talk – $260,350
24.) Minor League Ball – $224,896
25.) Burnt Orange Nation – $210,152
26.) Golden State of Mind – $208,408
27.) Slam Online – $206,870
28.) Bucs Dugout – $201,622
29.) Dawg Sports – $197,072
30.) The Good Phight – $196,224
31.) Beyond the Box Score – $190,624
32.) Celtics Blog – $173,880
34.) Kuklas Korner – $154,336
35.) Southside Sox – $152,096
36.) EPL Talk – $146,496
37.) Sports Frog – $146,168
38.) The Basketball Jones – $142,572
39.) Blogging the Boys – $142,572
40.) McCovery Chronicles – $138,920
41.) Bugs and Cranks – $138,648
42.) Draft Express – $137,760
43.) Bloody Elbow – $127,196
44.) Uni Watch Blog – $137,122
45.) 38 Pitches – $134,724
46.) Royals Review – $134,624
50.) Fish Stripes – $134,624
51.) Camden Chat – $134, 624
52.) Sac Town Royalty – $131,672
53.) Lone Star Ball – $129,696
54.) Bright Side of the Sun – $128,048
55.) Arrowhead Pride – $128,048
56.) Bleeding Green Nation – $128,048
57.) Surviving Grady – $127,420
58.) Lets Go Tribe – $124,096
59.) Halos Heaven – $123,424
60.) Niners Nation – $122,748
61.) Pounding the Rock – $120,772
62.) Behind the Steel Curtain – $120,772
63.) Hogs Haven – $116,812
64.) Mavs Moneyball – $116,812
65.) The Falcoholic – $113,632
66.) Indy Cornrows – $113,321
67.) On Frozen Blog – $106,848
68.) Detroit Bad Boys – $104,420
69.) Boston Sports Media – $93,000
70.) The Jets Blog – $90,496
72.) Baseball Think Factory – $84,061
73.) Knicker Blogger – $83,720
74.) First Inning – $83,224
75.) Behind the Jersey – $82,823
76.) Sports Agent Blog – $80,348
77.) Hoops Addict – $78,262
78.) Biz of Baseball – $75,048
79.) Dime – $57,460
80.) Brew Hoop – $52,600
81.) Fire Joe Morgan – $51,744
82.) Goat Riders – $51,520
83.) The 700 Level – $51,296
84.) River Ave Blues – $51,294
85.) Hot Foot Blog – $51,012
86.) Empty the Bench – $50,264
87.) Need 4 Sheed – $49,268
88.) Ump Bump – $47,742
89.) Homer Derby – $47,380
90.) Joe Sports Fan – $46,948
91.) NHL Hockey Blog -$45,835
92.) Losers With Socks – $40,994
93.) Mack Avenue Tigers – $32,700
94.) Supersonics Soul – $31,970
95.) Zoner Sports – $31,800
96.) U.S.S. Mariner – $31,702
97.) EDSBS – $31,360
98.) Storming the Floor – $29,376
99.) Awful Announcing – $24,168
100.) Gaslamp Ball – $23,296

Anyway, Gilbert Arenas took first place on my list. Go on for the next 18:

1.) Gilbert Arenas Agent Zero’s is widely considered one of best athlete blogs. Agent Zero won the Weblog’s award for best celebrity blogger of 2007. His blog offers extremely indepth (and long) posts on the NBA, the Wizards, and what’s happening in his life. Some recent excerpts:

“Varejao, he asked for $60 million and ends up with three years for $17 million. You could have got that contract last summer! You done missed 20 games of the season getting paid the same money you could have got last summer.”

(*-Arenas doesn’t actually write his blog himself, but he tells his writers what to write.)

2.) Curt Schilling He updates more often–about three times a week–but his posts are often not as interesting. He posts less about sports than Arenas and more about whatever he is thinking. However his posts about the steroid scandal have been extremely interesting. As a harsh critic of steroid use, he offer candor that you don’t hear from other players:
His Thoughts on the Mitchell Report

3.) Curtis Granderson Granderson only posts during the baseball season, but his posts are very informative and entertaining. They are mostly just about the Tigers. They give more info on what fans might want to know about what’s happening, for example detail on the hot prospects or insight on a series.

4.) Bryon Friedman You don’t know who Bryon Friedman is because he’s a ski racer. His blog is an interesting look at a sport that Americans don’t know enough about. Also, it has cool videos of ski races and crashes.

5.) Pat Neshek Neshek plays for the Twins. He has a lot of interesting posts (year-long, not only during the season), like his series on what it’s like to be drafted. His site software is pretty weird, so I can’t link directly to any of those posts. That’s the one problem. He has black writing on a red background, which is interesting, I guess, but not optimal for a web page.

6.) David Wright Like Granderson, he only posts during the MLB season, but his posts are entertaining and include good pix.

7.) Etan Thomas Warning: This blog is not about sports. Thomas blogs for the Huffington Posts about politics. Yes, his views are wrong, but how many athletes blog about politics?

8.) Ian Crocker The US swimmer’s posts are almost as long as Arenas’, but he posts less often (though I’m sure he posts himself). They aren’t always about swimming.

9.) Moritz Voltz Certainly a well-writen blog, but I’m not into soccer.

10.) Donovan McNabb Short and to the point, his posts are mostly about football.

11.) Ben Roethlisberger Unfortunately, he doesn’t post about motorcycling.

12.) Greg Oden His posts are even shorter than McNabb’s posts, but he has an interesting feature where he answers fan questions.

13.) Rod Benson After playing ball at Cal, Benson is trying to play his way onto the Nets. Along the way, his honest, though unfrequently updated, blog posts entertain. He also took the time to make an obnoxious title with photoshopped pictures of himself, like a real blogger.

14.) Evan Tanner UFC Fighter. It’s not a lot for words, but it has some cool pictures. (Which make it take a while to load.)

15.) Jeff Samardzija Sample post: “Glad I graduated Notre Dame last year…”

16.) Mike Conley, Jr In Conley’s defense, Oden has a lot more time to blog now that he isn’t playing.

17.) Carmelo Anthony Just learn 2 read txt msg language b4 tackling his.

18.) Dontrelle Willis Willis started his after getting traded.

19.) Diana Taurasi From the WNBA…

20.) Rajon Rondo The 2nd year point guard for the Celtics, who has been assigned the position of taking the Celtics down in the playoff with his inexperience, talks about what it’s like to be expected to take the Celtics down in the playoffs with his inexperience.