The State Of Our Open Threads: After Ohio State
Well, fuck.
That's how I feel this morning, which is not too different from how I felt last night.
All the same, we do have some data to go over for the aftermath of the Ohio State game.
Let's start with something that won't shock anyone at all - we reached a season high for "fuck" and indeed, an all-time high for the four seasons that we've been going through this analysis now. No Ohio State game before yesterday, or indeed any game, can say that it resulted in 785 fucks in a game thread. That blows out the previous record, which was the Iowa game a couple week ago. It was also a season-high for shits given at 228, and that is also a high for shits given in the entire time that this analysis has been done. That won't shock anyone, or course - that was the most consequential game we have played in a long time, and I can only imagine the fucks and shits said aloud and off the record. I may have even contributed to the off the record total myself.....a lot.
We fell short of the season high for "damn" at 123, but truth be told, with the blog tendency to go straight to "fuck", it's remarkable that on three separate occasions we managed to get more than 100 damns, but that's more times in one season than in any of the previous three, a tribute to just how invested we were and will likely continue to be in the Harbaugh era.
We tied a season-high for "suck" as well, and it has become clear now more than ever that "suck" is truly one of those words we say in the moment, although much of the suck yesterday was on the officiating, and I wholeheartedly agree - the officiating did suck. That we kept the total as low as 32 was nothing short of a miracle, but then we threw "fuck" at the refs quite a bit too.
Some advanced metrics:
FART Rate, which is Fucks Adjusted for Real Time, is a bit skewed because of the two overtimes, so it was down at 3.140 fucks per minute of airtime, which well short of Iowa's 3.956.
SHART Rate, or Shits Adjusted for Real Time, fell to the same problem - 0.912 shits per minute of airtime, which again is short of the 1.167 for the Iowa game. Actually, Iowa is the only time we went above 1 shit per minute, but that game totally deserved it.
FAP Rate, or Fucks Per Play, was 4.876 - that honestly feels a bit low when I take my own feelings and statements into consideration, but then I was out of words by overtime and just staring in frightened, stunned silence....then in anguish.
The SQUIRT number, or the combined FART / SHART, was 3.443 - was just a little over half the ratio of the Wisconsin game, which was 6.492. It speaks to a lot of shit, or rather, a lot more shit in yesterday's game. Shit that we still have feelings about.
Some 10,000 foot data -
This was the third-largest game thread this season at 2,755 posts - only MSU and Iowa were larger. In that thread, there were 1,730 tracked words which comes out to an efficiency of 1.59, consistent with a loss by both the historic and modified scales. Not surprisingly, on a word-for-word basis, that was the most efficienct thread from a profanity standpoint all year. In fact,the only other game to have a rating below 2.00 - which is the line for a loss typically, when all collected data is taken into consideration, was Iowa. The rating is pretty consistent as a metric now.
Remarkably, just this game accounts for 16.58% of tracking for the year, which is huge when you consider that it is twelve games, and indeed, MSU, Iowa and Ohio State by themselves account for about 45% of all tracking, and that is consistent with the obvious - rivalry games and losses, especially the two in combination, lead to some prolific cussing. It's just part and parcel of being a fan, and making it transparent is what we're about here.
So, in the coming weeks, the season data summary will be ready and we will even do a special bowl edition for whichever bowl we find ourselves in.
Let me just say that even in a year with so many positives and Harbaugh, this is still fun to do because it helps me be a better fan when I pick apart fandom.
November 27th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
Pretty sure I said fuck more than 785 times just by myself in my living room.
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November 27th, 2016 at 11:55 AM ^
I'm still saying "fuck" a whole lot.
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November 27th, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^
New words you should consider adding to the tally:
Fixed
Cheated
Rigged
Biased
One-sided (hyphen i know)
I'm sure there are a lot more but those immediately came to mind while thinking about yesterday for some odd reason.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^
I don't use the F word but I definitely read it more than ever and it was somewhat cathartic.
November 27th, 2016 at 8:09 PM ^
If you didn't use it after that 4th and 1 spot, you never will.
I recommend that you go into the Priesthood.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:05 PM ^
Fuck that game. Ohio State fans really think they won the game fairly. I hate them.
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November 27th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^
Not the honest ones, but there are only a few out there.
November 27th, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
And I grew up in Ohio and have known many of their fans my whole life. Partly that is why I"m so pissed today, because their fans get to keep acting like they are the best thing ever. FUCK THEM!! Do we add post game fucks to the tally? FUCK!!!!
November 27th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
Fuck this shit! But I still can't quit ya, LSAClassOf2000. Thanks for this thread. It helps me breathe. :)
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November 27th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^
My housemates and I threw a TV thru the plate glass window into the back yard of 217 N Thayer.
It was after an away loss to OSU.
Yesterday, a little past 4 PM EST I was able to close my eyes and completely transport back in time
and experience the sudden raw emotion of that locked up timebomb
Moment!!!! I was 100% there and instantaneously--the combined frustration, anger and hopelessness I felt during those mind-altering seconds years and years ago that forged a lifelong memory for me was back in full force.
It was frightening and exciting at the exact same split second!!!!'
I miss college --but I really, really miss winning against Ohio State.
My daughter is 16.....I am sick of her feeling sorry for me each year
because she personally has never witnessed Michigan winning against them.
Oh, and If someone out there found that TV in the backyard
On
N Thayer you should know that you have to scotch tape
the horizontal button on the side panel or the picture will " roll" during All IN THE FAMILY ,
Michigan away games and just about everything on channel 50...
As I said yesterday--Bo had a heart attack the night before the Rose Bowl in 1969 and now Fidel
Castro died the day before our biggest game in years.
It can't be a coincidence and why oh why does it keep happening to us?
November 27th, 2016 at 12:31 PM ^
Useful information than some of the forum threads you deleated. What the heck. No one cares. Save it for the next mgoblog staff meeting.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
Your other thread got deleted because there is already a recent post discussing Bowl/Playoff scenarios. Your post would fit perfectly with that conversation.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/examining-michigans-possible-barring-extrem…
November 27th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
I do not believe we need extreme chaos to make the playoff. But a bunch of sad ass hats want to dismiss this point without logical discussion.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^
OK, I'll address this -
I don't do these things to spite people or piss people off. In an examination of the threads, it seemed like yours probably could easily fit inside one mentioned about plus a few on the second page. Yours was an interesting point - I actually was intrigued by it, but the determiner here has to be avoiding too many similar discussion and also trying to keep some of the more original stuff as visible as possible.
So, I apologize if you're pissed, and to be sure it isn't a perfect system - it was a mere judgment call on board content, not the quality of it. Again, your point was actually really interesting.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:59 PM ^
you for your honesty.
November 27th, 2016 at 2:03 PM ^
the call to delete stands!
November 27th, 2016 at 8:12 PM ^
You should be a Big Ten ref. At least you have a legit reason for what you do even if it pisses somebody off.
November 27th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
I just don't care about the state of the open thread this week.
November 27th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^
Me either but I appreciate the effort
November 27th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
Yeah, you're right. I couldn't do if it were my task. Not today.
November 27th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^
Me either but I appreciate the effort
November 27th, 2016 at 1:08 PM ^
How do you know when 70% of posts couldn't be made due to inability to post to the forum?
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November 27th, 2016 at 11:32 PM ^
I hate blaming offciating for losing a game, but when it is on a level like that game was and especially when the game should have ended after that 4th Down play, it makes it extremely difficult not to. That still frame of a ridiculous angle way to the right that at least 1 Ohio State coach and countless useless nut fucks keep distributing in an embarrassment! This guy's videos are basically indisputable evidence that it was NOT a 1st Down:
eli on Twitter: "Somebody explain this... that's home state cookin"
Last night, a die hard Ohio State fan who is a technical producer on Fox Sports Radio even admitted that he didn't think J.T. Barrett got the 1st Down. Also, the fact that they DID NOT EVEN BRING THE CHAINS OUT AND MEASURE in a game of that magnitude is a gross negligence of officiating responsibilities, and further proof that they wanted Ohio State to win for whatever reasons {i.e. most likely these}. Oh, and the explanation the ref gave Harbaugh saying that he got penalized because it would've been a technical foul in basketball might be the most incompetent response I have ever heard!
Sorry, needed to let that out...
November 29th, 2016 at 5:52 PM ^
The ball is automatically spotted @ the 25 in OT. The 15 yard line is the 15 yard line. Unless of course you think the yard lines are off? But they would be off for both teams.
November 29th, 2016 at 4:55 PM ^
Jarrod Bunch and Jamie Morris discuss the game!!!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/goblueplayers/2016/11/29/26-ohio-state-game-recap-and-bowl-discussion
November 29th, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^
I had to wash my mouth out with soap after the game.
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