The Sports Geek Analyzes NFL Trade Deadline Deals: Fan Response on Social Media
The Sports Geek conducted a social sentiment analysis to gauge how NFL fans are responding on social media. By analyzing all of the tweets made about this trade, we were able to determine the general sentiment—whether positive or negative—around the trade.
Here’s the results of how NFL fans reacted to this trade:
| Preston Smith | Number of Tweets | % of Tweets |
| Positive Tweets | 6,981 | 50% |
| Negative Tweets | 1,030 | 7% |
The social media sentiment analysis shows that most NFL fans are quite happy with Preston Smith getting traded to the Steelers. With almost with almost 7,000 positive tweets (50% of all tweets) being made about Smith since the trade.
The Smith trade was also the 5th most discussed trade that happened before the trade deadline, with 14,000 tweets made about it.
Here is how it ranked against the other trades:
| Rank | Player | To | From | Number of Tweets |
| 1 | Marshon Lattimore | Commanders | Saints | 52,000 |
| 2 | Jonathan Mingo | Cowboys | Panthers | 25,000 |
| 3 | Mike Williams | Steelers | Jets | 22,000 |
| 4 | Za’Darius Smith | Lions | Browns | 16,000 |
| 5 | Preston Smith | Steelers | Packers | 14,000 |
| 6 | Khalil Herbert | Bengals | Bears | 11,000 |
| 7 | Tre’Davious White | Ravens | Rams | 9,000 |
| 8 | Baron Browning | Cardinals | Broncos | 6,000 |
| 9 | Khalil Davis | 49ers | Texans | 4,000 |
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Methodology
The Sports Geek used a social sentiment tool, Brandwatch, to analyze the sentiment around the trades that happened in Novemeber. Brandwatch analyzes all tweets made about a specific word (in this case, we used the players name) to determine whether that tweets is being positive or negative about that specific word we are analyzing.
All tweets that were made in the past 3 days were considered (4th November-6th November)
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Author: David Keech
David Keech is a retired teacher and works as a sportswriter, sports official and as an educational consultant. He has reported on amateur sports since 2011, known as 'KeechDaVoice.' David can be reached at [email protected]
