Who are NYCFC's Rivals?

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Hello NYCFC Fans,

With the help of message board members beginning in 2014, we—the students and professors of the Know Rivalry Project—began answering this question and others related to rivalry in the MLS. Please help us expand our results for NYCFC by taking 9 minutes to complete our newest survey:


Our previous results have been featured in numerous sports media outlets, as well as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You can view those results, links to media coverage, and learn more about us at our KnowRivalry.com website BUT we'd prefer you didn't until you completed the survey via the link above... we don't want to influence your opinions provided in the survey.

We use the Qualtrics online survey software for data collection. This academic research has been approved by two US universities' Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and it poses no risks to respondents. You'll find more information on the disclosure agreement that is required to start the survey. Thank you for helping us to include NYCFC by participating and please share this with any other fans that may also help.

Jonah, Student Researcher, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. David Tyler, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
 
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That was cool, made me think about my relationship with NYCFC and NJRB in different ways than before!

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Putting in spoilers for anyone who didn't do the survey yet:

I assigned to NJRB, then Toronto, then NER. I completely forgot about orlando. However I don't even consider them a rival so I was surprised some people do.

I would like to also know HOW many data points go into the data given, because some of them seem a bit off, for example Orlando's responses don't even include atlanta at all, which seems weird to me.
 
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That was cool, made me think about my relationship with NYCFC and NJRB in different ways than before!

EDIT:
Putting in spoilers for anyone who didn't do the survey yet:

I assigned to NJRB, then Toronto, then NER. I completely forgot about orlando. However I don't even consider them a rival so I was surprised some people do.

I would like to also know HOW many data points go into the data given, because some of them seem a bit off, for example Orlando's responses don't even include atlanta at all, which seems weird to me.
I noticed the same, and also that they do not yet have survey results for Atlanta. I wonder if they suppress votes for Atlanta (or any team for which they still lack sufficient data). If so, there could be a bunch of "silent" votes from Orlando fans for atlanta that will show up after they get the ATL vote. Bottom line, I don't trust the ORL data.
 
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Great survey! Really enjoyed the questions about having relationships with fans of a rival team.
 
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It was a good survey. I wish I could see how they analyze some of the answers to make the data points.
 
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