Quote Originally Posted by OKCRT View Post
They group Raliegh with Greensboro to create a market. Well Tulsa is about the same distance from OKC so why isn't OKC claiming a pop of 2.3 mil? Just interesting to see how some of these smaller cities make claims. Seattle does much the same to make their pop look larger. SLC does as well.
When talking to the league the owners stated that there was an expectation there would be a following and sales from Tulsa, as far as why the metropolitan stats are still separate is the economies are not intertwined enough by the methods they use to merge the two.