GREENVILLE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers are one of the unhappiest fanbases in the league right now.
Panthers fans have been very frustrated with their team about their off-season moves so far. The Panthers have had the second most negative tweets made about them with their off-season activity, getting over 9,000 negative tweets about the team and their signings – that’s the second most in the league, according to The Sports Geek.
The organization has utilized a social listening tool to determine the sentiment of each move in the NFL so far. Here is a Top 10 list of the teams that have received the most negative reaction so far during this signing period:
Rank | Team | Number of negative posts |
1 | Dallas Cowboys | 10,065 |
2 | Carolina Panthers | 9,674 |
3 | Tennessee Titans | 8,577 |
4 | Atlanta Falcons | 6,631 |
5 | New York Giants | 6,065 |
6 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 6,035 |
7 | New England Patriots | 5,850 |
8 | Las Vegas Raiders | 5,650 |
9 | Denver Broncos | 4,623 |
10 | Cincinnati Bengals | 3,630 |
Methodology. How was this data collected?
In order to collect this data, The Sports Geek utilized Brandwatch’s (a social listening tool) social sentiment tool. This tool allows us to determine how many tweets are made about a certain word, as well as seeing the positive/negative sentiment around it, based off the words that are used in the post. After collecting this for each team, we ranked them by highest number of negative tweets.