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DTW Year in Review

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The post that was 12 months in the making, and 45 minutes in the writing – the Year in Review. (seriously, there is NO Tiger news to report) As you’ve probably realized if you’ve been reading this site for awhile, I like statistics. With that, let’s take a look back:

  • Posts: 210
  • Words: 103,537(not counting this post)
  • Comments: 1156
  • Interviews: 3
  • Visits: 72,000+
  • Page Views: 100,000+
  • Redesigns: 1

I thought about counting up the graphs and charts, but then I was just too lazy.

The most commented on posts were the Kenny Rogers signing, Ugueth Urbina being traded, and our wild and crazy prediction thread.

I’d like to thank all of you who have been here all year, and everybody else who began reading along the way. Thanks for taking the time to leave comments and get the discussions moving. This year has by far been my most successful year, if you define success as visits and recognition that is. My traffic increased by about 300% this year. All of that increase of course came from you coming back again and again, and telling your friends and thanks for that.

But you had to find this place in the first place, and that was faciliated by a number of people. Sean Baligian gave me several mentions on WDFN, and Mike Wendland wrote about the site in the Free Press. Most of my traffic though came from the generous linking of others. David Pinto, Seth Stohs, Geoff Young, Dave Studeman and so many others helped to drive considerable traffic to this site. There are many, many more who linked to me, and to list them all would take the rest of the day. I’d also like to thank Scott at Motown Sports for the opportunity to write for his site, and at the same time promote mine.

I’d also like to thank Dave Dombrowski, Ernie Harwell, and Dan Dickerson for being so generous in their time and their willingness to participate in interviews. This site is still pretty small in the grand scheme of things, but it is a little bigger with a little more credibility (I think) thanks to those interviews.

And of course there is the Detroit/Tiger blogging community (DIBS) who have all been so supportive of this site and each other. I look forward to even more interaction and cross-site discussion in 2006. We’ve got some ideas to grow DIBS in membership, and in terms of community, that I hope we can bring to fruition.

Thanks for a great year, and I’m really looking forward to 2006.

Now if only we can get a winning record one of these years…

2 thoughts on “DTW Year in Review”

  1. Nice post on the year, and I really liked the thoughts on Bonderman. You almost have to think the Tigers have painted themselves into having to sign Bonderman long-term since he has been annointed the second coming of Jack Morris by the current management team, especially if Pena and German continue to make Bonderman look like the only full-time player obtained in the Weaver deal. I actually like the Tigers rotation even with Kenny Rogers as the cancer/ace of the group. Now if only they could get a bullpen together that can help their young pitchers. How long has it been since the Tigers had a 7,8,9 pitching combo you could count on for more than 2 months of a season. I believe it was probably 1987 or even 1984.

    Brad Bates
    http://www.tigerdroppings.blogspot.com

  2. Great year Billfer. Lots of good work on the site and great analysis. Looking forward to the new year.

    I am disappointed to read the rumors every day and NEVER see the Tigers involved. I guess they are convinced that if they can keep healthy and put that lineup out there every day they will be pretty good. Not a horrible assumption. I’d still like to see them get another starter to push Robertson and/or Maroth.

    Happy New Year to all and may 2006 break the unspeakable streak!

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