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Who do we like? Yankees rule, Giants over Jets and more Facebook findings

It’s no secret Yankees fans outnumber Mets fans in our backyard. The size of the disparity may surprise you: more than 3-to-1.

The surprising findings come from Ben Blatt of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, who mined “likes” on Facebook to measure allegiance to the local sports teams among fans in New York City, Westchester, Long Island and northern New Jersey. The data covers a representative sample of 6 million Facebook users.

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The Yankees’ popularity dominance over the Mets is one of the most striking takeaways from the numbers. The Bombers — no shock — were the most supported of any New York sports team, tallying a total of 1,096,400 likes. But the next most popular, the Giants, had more than 36 percent fewer at 694,280. The Knicks were third at 670,880.

The Jets are next, though there’s a big drop to 425,740. Then come the Mets at 353,580 — less than a third of the Yankees’ total.

The Yankees garnered the majority of the support over the Mets in every town, county and zip code analyzed on a more micro scale. The Amazin’s had the most traction in Floral Park, at 41.6 percent of the likes for a local baseball team. The strongest pro-Yankees area was Morris County, where 87 percent of the breakdown had a pinstripe pattern.

Other conclusions from Blatt’s research:

***In just a few months in Brooklyn, there is evidence the Nets already have grabbed a slice of the Knicks’ five-borough fan base.

New York City data collected in November was measured against data collected this month. Forty-two of the 43 neighborhood divisions of NYC showed an increase in Nets fans, with only the subsection of Greenwich Village and SoHo holding strong for the blue-and-orange.

In November, the biggest Knicks-Nets fan support gap was a 91-9 split in Northeast Queens, the smallest at 62-38 percent in Central Brooklyn, which happens to be the site of Barclays Center. When another poll was pulled this month, that was down to a high of 83-17 (Central Queens) and a low of 54-46 (Central Brooklyn).

That indicated to Blatt there could be a 50-50 split in some pockets before long if the Nets’ popularity continues to trend.

***The Giants-Jets divide is the closest among the four major sports, with Gang Green narrowly tracking behind Big Blue in Nassau County (51.5 percent to 48.5). If you zoom in on the map, the Jets are more liked in several Nassau municipalities — the high is 56.1 percent in Great Neck. In every other pocket of the Big Apple, Westchester, north Jersey and Suffolk, the Giants never dip below 52 percent.

***Don’t tell Brooklyn the Islanders are moving in two years from Uniondale to Atlantic Avenue: the Rangers received an 88.9 percent share of the likes in Kings County, not counting the Newark-based Devils. There is even less love for the Isles in Staten Island (93.5 percent Rangers) and The Bronx (89 percent Rangers, with a high of 95 percent, in the area defined as High Bridge and Morrisania).

mark.hale@nypost.com