Penn State Nittany Lions
Full department read: how the Team Visibility Score is built, what the calendar is worth in content units, which audience pools are addressable, and the 90-day sequence to move the number.
Where the score comes from
Each input normalized against the league leader, then weighted. The contribution column is what actually moves TVS.
| Input | Raw | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MVS · Media visibility Broadcast + national media impressions across the season window. | 171.0M | 40% | 61.6 index | 24.6 |
DSPS · Digital / social Owned + earned social reach across team, athlete and fan channels. | 217.1M | 40% | 52.4 index | 21 |
CSRS · City / state / diaspora Addressable population in-market plus diaspora communities that convert. | 44K | 10% | 1.1 index | 0.1 |
SPS · Stadium presence Gate capacity — the physical activation surface per home date. | 107K | 10% | 99 index | 9.9 |
What the calendar is actually worth
- 13 scheduled eventsEach one is a pre / live / post content unit — three placements minimum.
- 104 clip slotsEight harvestable clips per event at conservative capture.
- 746,004 season attendance7 home dates × 106,572 seats — the physical activation surface.
- 110 athlete channelsDistribution nodes the program does not currently monetize.
Who is addressable
Band assumes the 104 clip slots and 13 event windows are packaged and sold as one season product, with the University Park market and athlete channels routed through a shared ledger. Low end is inventory-only; high end includes diaspora and commerce activation.
Businesses in this market
Who can actually write the check — firm counts, output and category budget in the club market.
2 declared interest lanes unlock 56% of the local sponsor pool — a 1.52× breadth multiplier on reach.
- · University Park, PA is the commercial anchor — $1010B of output and 341,635 employer firms inside the footprint.
- · Healthcare systems holds the largest slice of local budget here (16% of the pool, ~$12,813K a year) — lead the sell there.
- · 1,332,377 small businesses sit in these markets. Small-business packages are the fastest revenue to close because they need no national approval.
- · This business base is why Penn State Nittany Lions carries earnings potential beyond raw follower count.
- · Visibility 53.9 converts to a 9.1% capture rate against a $77.8M local sponsor pool.
- · 162,552 monetizable fans at $60/yr drive $9.75M of fan-economy revenue.
- · Capitalized at a 4.8x revenue multiple. Modeled estimate, not a reported valuation.
- · Every figure above is Penn State Nittany Lions's market economy priced through visibility — move the visibility score and the whole stack moves with it.
90-day activation plan
Phase-gated. Each block ends in a re-score, not a report.
- · Lock the PSU score sheet: verify Stadium presence as the lead asset (99 index).
- · Audit every owned handle and map the 110 athlete channels into one distribution graph.
- · Price the 104 clip slots against comparable CFB inventory before any sell motion.
- · Close the City / state / diaspora gap — it is the lowest normalized input at 1.1.
- · Stand up 3 recurring franchises around the 7 home dates (pre / live / post).
- · Build a University Park/PA civic lane — local commerce converts before national does.
- · Package 13 events into a season sponsor tier at the modeled band.
- · Route athlete-channel inventory into the shared rev-share ledger.
- · Re-score at day 90; target +4.6 TVS on the next pull.
Team analysis
Live headlines, combined roster reach, sourced franchise value and viewership — storyline written only from the pulled articles.
Program details · University Park, Pennsylvania
User-supplied College D1 Sports Teams workbook, 2026-09-07. Social handles are best-known official accounts; verify on each athletics site before use. No follower counts.
| Sport | Conference | Venue | Seats | X | Site | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | Big Ten | Beaver Stadium | 106,572 | @PennStateFball | @pennstatefball | site |
| Basketball | Big Ten | Bryce Jordan Center | 15,261 | @PennStateMBB | @pennstatembb | site |
| W Basketball | Big Ten | Bryce Jordan Center | 15,261 | @PennStateMBB | @pennstatembb | site |
| W Soccer | Big Ten | Jeffrey Field | 5,000 | @PennStateWSOC | @pennstatewsoc | site |
| Soccer | Big Ten | Jeffrey Field | 5,000 | @PennStateMSOC | @pennstatemsoc | site |
| W Volleyball | Big Ten | Rec Hall | 6,800 | @PennStateVB | @pennstatevb | site |
| Hockey | Big Ten | Pegula Ice Arena | 6,014 | @PennStateMHKY | @pennstatemhky | site |
| W Hockey | Atlantic Hockey America | Pegula Ice Arena | 6,014 | @PennStateWIH | @pennstatewih | site |
| Baseball | Big Ten | — | — | @PennStateMBB | @pennstatembb | site |
| W Softball | Big Ten | — | — | @PennStateMBB | @pennstatembb | site |
Concealed value on this roster
Who is worth more than the attention they get — plus the full report as a PDF.
Players at or above this roster's median RUTS whose followers and 90-day press lag behind. Gap = RUTS minus attention. Only measured follower or press counts qualify — unknown never counts as low reach. Modeled, not reported.
Roster on file
Read live from the athlete database — every name opens that athlete's own RUTS page.
Roster & schedule
Pulled from the official league feed, every athlete scored on the RUTS spine.
Nearest programs by TVS
Price against the band these teams sit in, not against the league leader.
Load PSU into RUTS Analysis to adjust inputs, or scope live opportunities in University Park.