Best cities for sports in Massachusetts

BookrGo Best Sport Cities ranking: we rank the cities of Massachusetts by their 0-10 sports score, which combines density of centers per resident, variety of sports, listing quality and real activity. To keep the comparison fair, we measure every city's offering with the same sources of national coverage. An honest way to see where it's easiest (and hardest) to find somewhere to play.

210 scorable cities in Massachusetts.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Falmouth	8.7	47
2	Nantucket	8.6	75
3	Plymouth	8.3	108
4	Vineyard Haven	8.3	36
5	Salisbury	8.2	30
6	Andover	8.1	90
7	Chatham	8.1	20
8	Northampton	8.0	92
9	Gloucester	8.0	69
10	Buzzards Bay	8.0	37
11	Sandwich	8.0	34
12	Marlborough	7.9	127
13	Northborough	7.9	40
14	Woburn	7.8	169
15	Salem	7.8	101
16	Foxborough	7.8	62
17	Barnstable Town	7.7	114
18	Dedham	7.7	109
19	Hingham	7.7	81
20	Newburyport	7.7	61
21	Amherst Town	7.7	55
22	Stoneham	7.7	54
23	Scituate	7.7	42
24	East Falmouth	7.7	26
25	Danvers	7.6	112
26	Westborough	7.6	89
27	North Adams	7.6	48
28	Norwood	7.5	101
29	Beverly	7.5	98
30	Westfield	7.5	76
31	Williamstown	7.5	34
32	Provincetown	7.5	31
33	Winchendon	7.5	13
34	Waltham	7.4	191
35	Newton	7.4	187
36	Wellesley	7.4	102
37	Pittsfield	7.4	96
38	Holyoke	7.4	60
39	Marshfield	7.4	39
40	South Yarmouth	7.4	30
41	Duxbury	7.4	26
42	Peabody	7.3	126
43	Wilmington	7.3	70
44	Hudson	7.3	66
45	Saugus	7.3	52
46	North Attleborough Town	7.3	48
47	Pepperell	7.3	25
48	Taunton	7.2	95
49	Weymouth Town	7.2	70
50	Belmont	7.2	48
51	Walpole	7.2	48
52	Gardner	7.2	46
53	South Dennis	7.2	14
54	East Dennis	7.2	12
55	Worcester	7.1	277
56	Somerville	7.1	164
57	Winchester	7.1	50
58	Orleans	7.1	27
59	Belchertown	7.1	25
60	Granby	7.1	14
61	Harwich Port	7.1	11
62	Haverhill	7.0	143
63	Brookline	7.0	126
64	Medford	7.0	117
65	Lexington	7.0	78
66	Milton	7.0	68
67	Great Barrington	7.0	36
68	Spencer	7.0	25
69	Northwest Harwich	7.0	11
70	North Lakeville	7.0	11
71	New Bedford	6.9	131
72	Arlington	6.9	94
73	Fitchburg	6.9	65
74	Kingston	6.9	54
75	Greenfield	6.9	38
76	Abington	6.9	33
77	Maynard	6.9	30
78	North Pembroke	6.9	30
79	Randolph Town	6.9	25
80	Athol	6.9	16
81	Quincy	6.8	203
82	Framingham	6.8	161
83	Springfield	6.8	155
84	Leominster	6.8	91
85	Burlington	6.8	90
86	Chicopee	6.8	81
87	Wakefield	6.8	67
88	Milford	6.8	58
89	Agawam Town	6.8	41
90	Webster	6.8	36
91	Bellingham	6.8	29
92	Pocasset	6.8	10
93	Dennis	6.8	8
94	Boston	6.7	1186
95	Cambridge	6.7	296
96	Reading	6.7	56
97	Melrose	6.6	66
98	Franklin Town	6.6	59
99	Braintree Town	6.6	46
100	Townsend	6.6	18

How do we calculate the score?

Variety (25%) — how many different sports the city covers.
Quality (20%) — richness of each center's information.
Activity (20%) — real user interest over the last 30 days.
Scale (15%) — number of centers in the city.
Density (10%) — centers per resident (dampened).
Courts (10%) — total capacity: number of courts.

Each section is measured as a percentile against the other cities in the United States and combined into the final score, on a 0-10 scale. Variety and density are measured with a uniform instrument (only sources with homogeneous national coverage) so that no city is favored by having a more complete open catalog. We only score cities with population data and a presence in those sources.