In a recent New York Times
FiveThirtyEight blog
post, writer Nate Silver ranks downtown Minneapolis'
Target Field as the fourth-best major league ballpark, overall.
Pittsburgh's
PNC Park, Boston's
Fenway Park and San Francisco's
AT&T Park top the list of 30 ballparks, while Toronto's
Rogers Centre comes in at the bottom, according to his calculations.
Silver gleaned these findings through a simple
Yelp.com search, he writes.
Each of the 30 major league stadiums had received between one and five stars, according to Yelp's rating system, which is a more holistic way to look at it than from a single reviewer's perspective or the technical-type fan review sites, he explains.
The popular review site is helpful because it uses dozens, if not hundreds of fan reviews to score the stadiums, he states. This way, readers get a greater sense of the user experience at each ballpark.