Last night's game proved to be one of those times where the MGoBlog open thread for the game became something of a repository for the swearing that occurs when you are enjoying yourself and the pain that you are causing to another team, not so much for the swearing which springs from stress or frustration. There was very little if any of that after the first couple drives.

If anything, the first half of the first page of comments were strewn with "fucks" which were a mix of the stale ESPN commentary and a little complaining about why we didn't just shell them from go.  

Actually, I've never shown the blog this breakdown before, but here is the progression of fucks and shits by page. I go with 300 comments per page, so if you're wondering why so few, your settings might be different:

Of the 157 fucks given last night, a third of them basically come within the first 30 minutes of airtime, which represents the first page of comments approximately. As I said, the slow start in the first quarter may have been the only complaint there. The rest of the fucks were funny or positive. 

It is important to note that "fuck" was not the most used word among the tracked words this time around - it was "Harbaugh". We were excited that Harbaugh laid a Harbaugh on a team that would dare marginalize the accomplishments of Harbaugh. Indeed, there was some talk about Chris Ash maybe even weeping a little bit at the realization that he gets to experience this Harbaugh for several years now. He may not have really, but it is fun to think of it that way. 

174 mentions of Harbaugh, in fact, in 784 total tracked words, which is 23.26% of all the instances. Of course, then you have "fuck" at 157, but then "Peppers" at 112 times too, so we were definitely high on Peppers, and nowhere did anyone mistakenly say "fuck Peppers", because if you had, you wouldn't be here still, of course. Actually, the only word to score above it's average on usage amoung the "original six" of this analysis was "damn", and then only barely, and then only because....well, damn.

So, let's take a look at some overall numbers now - in 1,741 posts, there were 784 tracked instances, which makes for a 2.22 overall efficiency. That's actually the highest yet this season, but the liveblog sometimes steals users from the thread and the blowouts tend to produce smaller threads, so take that into consideration. 

On the advanced metrics front, it was very quiet too - the FART rate was 0.748 against a SHART rate of only 0.238, producing a SQUIRT rate of 3.140, which given the historical data is typical of blowouts. THe FAP rate of 1.266 was actually in line with Colorado's FAP rate, but this time we were the only one playing tempo, relatively speaking, given that we ran 72 plays on offense. 

There isn't too much else - expect a halfway report next weekend, where we will look at advances stats a little more in detail.