NOTE: I will add charts later perhaps - having trouble with my Photobucket account, probably because it is far too unwieldly at this point. 

Well, the one thing that we were hoping not to dissect and digest, at least not quite at this moment, did in fact happen and we are waking up and eating breakfast trying to comprehend a Michigan loss. 

So, how did we feel about that game? 

Over the forty-six games that I've been running this particular analysis, we actually had never broken thr 600-fuck plateau. We came very, very close during the Indiana game last year when we hit 599, but we never got over this particular hump. Well, that was until last night - we gave 712 fucks, shattering the record and pushing the limits of what can fit into game threads. We also missed tying the the record for "shit" - 212 in last year's Minnesota game - by two shits, which in itself is remarkable since it is a far less popular word in comparison. However, a record number of fucks and a near-record number of shits sums up last night rather nicely, I would think. In addition, we hit a "damn" record for the season with 135 damns, which I checked three times because honestly it seemed way low, but then I remember spoken damns weren't included here. I think I used that many in fourth quarter.

Many of the advanced stats told a similar story of stunned despair:

FART (Fucks Adjusted For Real Time) Rate - 3.956, so nearly 4 fucks per minute of airtime, which is a season high and over 1 fuck more per minute of air than MSU

SHART (Shits Adjusted For Real Time) Rate - 1.167, twice the rate of the MSU game and I can assure everyone I was adding to them in the living room

SQUIRT (FART / SHART) Number - 3.390, which is actually a little less than half of Wisconsin's 6.492, but we underutilized shit heavily in that game

FAP (Fucks Per Play) Rate - 5.519, which is the highest for the season so far, far above 3.701 for MSU, and low for my own inner monologue during this game. Not sure how others feel. 

The total thread size was 2,777 posts as of about midnight last night, which the second largest total - it was spaced out across two threads, and it was also an away game, both of which tend to inflate the total. There were, however, 1,543 tracked instances, which makes for 19.37% of all the tracked instances in all threads. That's rather remarkable for being 10 games into a season. Overall efficiency came to 1.80, which is a season high and historically consistent with the numbers attained in frustrating losses over the last three years of data. 

Let me revisit this for a moment because I want people to see it. To  underscore how prolific we were, let's compare a few words to their average level of usage:

"Fuck" - season average of 247 per game, used 712 times last night

"Shit" - season average of 82 per game, used 210 times last night

"Damn" - season average of 55 per game, used 135 times last night

So, a downer all around, but onward and upward. We have two opportunities yet this year to beat those totals, but let's hope we don't.