Headed Toward the Playoffs

The college football regular season is in the books, but the professional football action on the gridiron is as good as ever with playoff spots up for grabs and more than a dozen teams fighting to make the postseason. Here is quick look at the top data-heavy pro football venues from the past week on our venue-specific networks as well as a few interesting trends we noticed.

Top 5 Professional Venues by Total Mobile Data (12/11-12/15)

• San Diego – 807GB
  • Equivalent to more than 2.3 million social media post with photos
• Atlanta – 607GB
  • Equivalent to more than 1.7 million social media post with photos
• Buffalo – 492GB
  • Equivalent to more than 1.4 million social media post with photos
• Seattle – 395GB
  • Equivalent to more than 1.1 million social media post with photos
• New York City – 362GB
  • Equivalent to more than 1 million social media post with photos

Playoff Race Pushes Data

• Our top five data-heavy pro venues from the past week showed that fans love to talk about winners and good games.
  • Out of the five venues above, no stadium hosted a game that was decided by a margin of more than 12 points.
    • In addition, 4 of the 5 games were within one score entering the fourth quarter.
  • Out of the five venues, 4 of the 5 home teams entered the week in playoff contention with two weeks left to play in the pro football regular season.
    • Of the 10 teams in action at these five venues, 80% of the teams entered the week in playoff contention.

Caveats:

• All figures include only data traffic seen on AT&T’s venue-specific mobile network.
• All data metrics come from only venues with a DAS where AT&T’s mobile network is on-air and under contract. These metrics are not comprehensive of every game played during this past weekend for professional or college football.
• This data is compiled from only football stadiums that had home games during this selected timeframe where AT&T is on-air on a DAS.