How much do fans matter on a fan-driven network like SB Nation? They mean everything. It’s a network with the founding conceit of giving fans voices to communicate with other fans. Ideally, at the end of it everyone is an expert, doing away with the type of lowest-common denominator approach that defined traditional sportswriting for so many generations
In that spirit, SB Nation debuts the FanPulse Top 25, an attempt to quantify and bring together the knowledge of fans to produce a more meaningful poll by allowing the people who may actually watch more football than the people on specific beats to weigh in with that knowledge.