Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities
Overthinking It salutes this year’s Super Bowl champions with some totally unnecessary Excel.
As the series of graphs below demonstrate, the Pittsburgh Steelers perform better when the US produces more steel, but the Denver Nuggets perform worse with increased gold production, as do the Tennessee Titans (formerly the Houston Oilers) with increased oil production.*
Click on any of the graphs for larger versions.
*Yes, I know that extremely weak (i.e., virtually non-existent) correlation does not equal causation.
Go Steelers, and go steel producers.
Gab on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 7:24 pmHow do the 49ers relate to gold production?
Penny on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 7:48 pm@Gab, LOL.
Carsten on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 8:24 pmWhat about the Pittsburgh Pirates in relation to peer-to-peer networking?
Rob on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 9:14 pmGab and Carsten (and Steelers) for the win.
And now to beat a dead horse: how about correlations between…
… Win% of the Green Bay Packers and US production of cheese?
… Win% of the Philadelphia Phillies and US production of cigars?
… Win% of the Chicago White Sox and US production of white socks?
… Win% of the Utah Jazz and US production of jazz CDs?
… Win% of the New York Liberty and cases won by the ACLU?
Swirthe on Tue, 3rd Feb 2009 9:56 pmWhat about Denvers win/loss percentage vs Americas consumption of mcnuggets?
Kristin on Wed, 4th Feb 2009 11:15 amRob, the Packers are actually named after the meat packing industry, but I understand where a person may have been confused.