Based on my download numbers, a shocking number of you are regular listeners of the Tennis Abstract Podcast. Thanks! I rarely look at my stats, because I’m more focused on optimizing for a podcast that I personally find interesting and enjoyable to create than on maximizing the size of the audience. That said, I think (I hope?) those two goals overlap.
With this year’s podcasting in the books, I dug into the logs for the last 12 months to see which episodes drew the most listeners. I don’t have any way of tracking how much of each episode you listen to, so it’s possible that I’m learning more about which topics are most popular, not the content itself. Also, some people tend to download and listen long after episodes are released, so while none of the last few episodes made the 2019 top-ten list, they would likely climb higher if I updated this list in another month or two.
I recorded a total of 40 episodes this year. Here are the top ten episodes of 2019, ranked by number of downloads:
- Ep 76: US Open Recap
- Ep 75: US Open Preview
- Ep 74: More Aggression For Medvedev, More Control For Madison Keys
- Ep 70: Djokovic, Federer, Simona, Serena, and a Wimbledon Finals Weekend to Remember
- Ep 56: Gender Differences in Surface Differences
- Ep 54: Miami At the Half-Way Point
- Ep 55: Miami Titles for Barty and Federer
- Ep 53: Indian Wells in Review
- Ep 52: The Unpredictable WTA of Osaka, Stephens, and Sasnovich
- Ep 51: 100 For Federer, and 50.4% for Kyrgios
Nine of these ten episodes were recorded with Carl Bialik, of the Thirty Love podcast, and the tenth–episode 52–was recorded with Jeff McFarland of Hidden Game of Tennis.
Check back in a few weeks for more episodes!