FanSection Blog

The annual Army-Navy game is set for the 109th installation this Saturday, December 6, at noon EST on CBS.  While the records are very different with Army coming in at 3-8 and Navy likely heading to another bowl game at 7-4, this one is always fun and entertaining to watch.  The pageantry, history, and relative equality of this rivalry make it one of the best in college football.  The all time series stands at Navy 52 and Army 49 with 7 ties.  As usual I’ll be taking my customary place in front of the TV on Saturday morning to watch this one in its entirety.  It might even make me forget about the farce that is the BCS for at least a few hours.

But back to the task at hand.  With the Army-Navy game upon us, and fans from both academies gearing up, I wanted to check in to see how the FanSection applications for the respective teams were faring.  Here’s a quick look at how the applications have performed from the perspective of Monthly Active Users (data courtesy of AppData):

Army

Navy

So as you can see, both applications have been ramping up in the last month, but it seems like Army has lost a bit of momentum while Navy is continuing its climb.  From a raw number of users standpoint, Army is currently at ~13K users with an increase of 27% over the last month while Navy stands at ~19K users, an increase of 33%.  As an aside, Air Force is the least popular of the academy applications with ~11,000 users and ~2300 MAUs.  So from where I sit, it looks like the Midshipmen are a lot more confident in their team’s ability than are the Cadets.  Either that, or they’re more spirited which I have a hard time believing given the incredible spirit demonstrated by both academies during this game and by these blog posts: Navy and Army.

Enjoy the game!