[max]

Click on the link to get the charts....

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-so ... ms-2013-11


While there are numerous factors that go into how many professional sports teams a city can support, maybe the biggest factor is market size and how that will impact both attendance and television ratings.

The chart below is a look at the 41 U.S. television markets that have at least one team in one of the four major North American sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL). Market sizes are based on Nielsen data for the 2013-14 television season (cont. below)...

US Market Size versus Number of Pro Sports TeamsBusinessInsider.com

Not surprisingly, as the market size increases, the number of pro teams in that city increases, culminating with the New York area, which is home to nine pro sports teams. However, we also see a number of cities both well-above, and well-below the curve suggesting they either have too many or too few sports teams.

Orlando, with a market size of 1.5 million, is the largest city with just one pro sports team and is larger than 13 cities that have more than one team. At the other end of the spectrum, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Cleveland all have three pro sports teams despite a market sizes that are all below 1.5 million.

Using this data, we can calculate the ideal number of pro sports teams for each market if market size were the only factor (see table below).

The city that is most underrepresented is Los Angeles with 1.6 fewer teams than the size of their market would suggest. Five other cities (Orlando, Sacramento, Portland, Raleigh, Seattle) are at least one team short of ideal.

The San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market is the most over-saturated sports market with 2.1 more teams than ideal. Six other cities (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Miami, Denver) have at least one more team than their size suggests...

TV Market Sizes and Pro Sports TeamsBusinessInsider.com

[Hacksaw]

"The city that is most underrepresented is Los Angeles with 1.6 fewer teams than the size of their market would suggest. Five other cities (Orlando, Sacramento, Portland, Raleigh, Seattle) are at least one team short of ideal.

The San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market is the most over-saturated sports market with 2.1 more teams than ideal."

That make a good argument for the Raiders in LA. You can see why the league wants 2 team in LA and it would be better if one of them is the Raiders.

[max]

"The city that is most underrepresented is Los Angeles with 1.6 fewer teams than the size of their market would suggest. Five other cities (Orlando, Sacramento, Portland, Raleigh, Seattle) are at least one team short of ideal.

The San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market is the most over-saturated sports market with 2.1 more teams than ideal."

That make a good argument for the Raiders in LA. You can see why the league wants 2 team in LA and it would be better if one of them is the Raiders.

Except the reports are that if 2 teams go to LA, then one will be the Chargers.

[Elvis]

This is very cool, thanks max:

[max]

My pleasure, Elvis.

[den-the-coach]

So why not move Oakland to San Jose? Now I understand most areas do not want Raider fans, but is that not the Bay area as well?

[max]

So why not move Oakland to San Jose? Now I understand most areas do not want Raider fans, but is that not the Bay area as well?

Isn't that where the Niners are?

[Hacksaw]

So why not move Oakland to San Jose? Now I understand most areas do not want Raider fans, but is that not the Bay area as well?

Isn't that where the Niners are?

Yeah and there were old rumors that OAK & SF could share.

[Elvis]

I know this is a little off point, but with the Niners moving so far South that puts (maybe not right away) a lot of the Bay Area in play for another team. It's a real opportunity for the Raiders to grow their market share, or for someone else to swoop in if the Raiders leave.

[BuiltRamTough]

So STL is one team over per it's market and LA is 2 under? So having a team in STL is extra? I could see why it makes sense to move the Rams.