MGoWords
Coach Schiano here. You might remember me from such fine diaries as MGoStatistics, Visualizing the Hennechart (aka the Hennegraph), and some other forgotten gems (the last being a drug-induced haloscan rant of epic proportion). Or you might not. But at least those stats got some front page love from blogmaster-in-chief Brian, despite the purported "diss". PYTHON RULES!
In last week's post, we summarized some word counts over the years to definitively show that Brian is awesome, which he is. What left a bad taste, however, was the weak attempt at the end of that diary to summarize word usage via a single Wordle. Yes, Wordle is awesome, but no one Wordle can this blog describe, as someone famous once said; probably not somebody associated with Wordle, though.
Thus we bring you a deeper analysis of the blog via the simple tool of Word Frequency Analysis (WFA). By simply counting how many times a word is used, great insight into this blog and its content can be achieved. Or, at least, mild amusement can your way be brought. Minimally, sentences can in Yoda style be written.
The results below come from (somewhat arbitrary) comparisons of the frequencies of different words. The conclusions come from my brain. Thus, the former can be trusted, and the latter should likely be dismissed. But hopefully each analysis is clear: a table, with a list of (frequency, word) pairs, where frequency is the number of times that particular word appeared in mgoblog over its entire lifetime, 2004 until present.
And now, for the results! Brace yourselves, this gets ugly.
First, we analyze how often particular sports are mentioned:
3252 | football |
1119 | hockey |
1118 | basketball |
300 | baseball |
111 | soccer |
1 | soccer-sucks-no-it-doesn't |
Now, an analysis of how often various places are mentioned:
617 | ann |
613 | arbor |
156 | columbus |
119 | pahokee |
64 | lansing |
Now we study the popularity of various coaches:
2394 | rodriguez |
1332 | carr |
262 | bo |
248 | tressel |
183 | ferentz |
129 | paterno |
124 | berenson |
123 | schiano |
93 | schembechler |
55 | woody |
You might find yourself wondering about the dominant mgoblog receiver. If so, we give you the receiver analysis:
1002 | manningham |
721 | breaston |
469 | avant |
193 | braylon |
48 | tacopants |
Who is mgoblog's favorite running back? Well, this was an easy one to guess:
2447 | hart |
1606 | minor |
691 | mcguffie |
11 | biakabutuka |
Onto the quarterback competition:
1720 | henne |
1305 | forcier |
734 | tate |
301 | denard |
261 | devin |
218 | brady |
101 | navarre |
10 | dilithium |
1 | tate/denard |
And now we study two particular schools of football philosophy: Lloydball and Tresselball.
19 | lloydball |
5 | tresselball |
1 | lloyd/tresselball |
Speaking of football philosophy, we also study the dominance of the spread:
688 | spread |
31 | spreads |
13 | spread-option |
3 | spreaders |
3 | spread-type |
3 | spread-offense |
3 | non-spread |
2 | spread-to-run |
2 | spread-n-shred |
2 | spread-mad |
2 | anti-spread |
1 | ur-spread |
1 | spreadmania |
1 | spreadfather |
1 | spread/zone-read |
1 | spread-zone |
1 | spread-run-throw |
1 | spread-option-happy |
1 | spread-o |
1 | spread-ish |
1 | spread-hating |
1 | spread-happy |
1 | spread-happiness |
1 | spread-friendly |
1 | spread-first |
1 | spread-dominated |
1 | spread-crazy |
1 | spread-combating |
1 | spread-and-shred |
1 | pseudo-spread |
1 | hyper-spread |
Now we move onto more important matters, like the study mascot names:
1312 | wolverines |
462 | buckeyes |
400 | spartans |
272 | gophers |
225 | badgers |
130 | hawkeyes |
104 | wildcats |
109 | illini |
77 | nittany |
77 | hoosiers |
29 | boilermakers |
Finally, if you'll indulge, we'll get into some slightly more off-topic terms. Let's start with food. What about the food preferences of mgoblog? Sadly, not much data here, making us wonder if Brian eats very much or is rather some kind of blog-creating Cyborg sent from our future UofM overlords to get us through these rough times (possible, no? hmm? HMMM?). But from what we could find:
34 | bacon |
9 | sausage |
10 | hamburger |
4 | hotdog |
33 | pizza |
1 | pppppizzaaa |
13 | coke |
4 | pepsi |
Being a blog of international repute, mgoblog also mentions some people of differing nationalities:
28 | germans |
26 | french |
18 | russians |
4 | greeks |
400 | spartans |
Brian also uses his fair share of saltier language. For example:
1 | breast |
2 | breasts |
182 | ass |
48 | badass |
29 | asshole |
27 | kickass |
23 | asses |
1 | ass-kickage |
1 | ass-raping |
1 | ass-shaking |
1 | ass-tasting |
1 | asshat-wearing |
1 | asshatted |
1 | asshole/prick |
1 | asswhooping |
1 | crazyass |
1 | scary-ass |
1 | shiny-ass |
1 | silly-ass |
1 | skinny-ass |
1 | slow-ass |
1 | smarmy-ass |
1 | smartass |
1 | stupid-ass |
1 | wack-ass |
1 | whiteass |
1 | freekbass |
"I suppose it is possible that Germany is a plant biology major and spends his time before the snap screaming "I gonna sprout all up in your ass, mothafucka*" at the quarterback, but it seems unlikely."Classic.
Sorry, one last set of bad words:
115 | appalachian |
108 | horror |
Just keep moving folks, keep moving. And let them never be mentioned again. Speaking of which:
60 | kitten |
56 | kittens |
1 | demon-kitten |
1 | kitten-strangling |
Just keep moving folks, keep moving. And let them never be mentioned again. Speaking of which:
60 | kitten |
56 | kittens |
1 | demon-kitten |
1 | kitten-strangling |
We end with some fairly random studies. First, a gender study yielded the following information about the different types of "boys" mentioned on the blog:
203 | boy |
26 | cowboy |
7 | fanboy |
6 | boyfriend |
4 | ballboy |
3 | playboy |
1 | boy-band |
1 | ex-boyfriend |
1 | fratboy |
1 | georgiaboy |
1 | mgowhippingboy |
1 | nancyboy |
1 | non-fanboy |
1 | posterboy |
1 | sissy-boy |
1 | wonderboy |
126 | girl |
41 | girlfriend |
2 | 14-year-old-girl |
2 | cowgirl |
2 | farmgirl |
1 | batgirl |
1 | ex-girlfriend |
1 | girl-men |
1 | girl-on-girl |
1 | girlish |
1 | girly |
1 | then-girlfriend |
1 | mgogirlfriend |
And we conclude with some word counts that we noticed "coincidentally" ended up at the same frequency. Or did they?????
64 | lansing |
64 | oops |
123 | hopson |
123 | mistakes |
128 | harbaugh |
128 | mom |
128 | penetration |
Where's "fucktard" or "fucktarded"? I've used and seen these thrown around a lot. Also I would like to add "unfucked" example: The LB's unfucked there selves in 2010 and became a strength of the defense. Sorry all I'm a sailor and can't help myself. Good post.
I believe these statistics come only from Brian's content on the main page, not diaries, message board posts, etc.
would have liked to see how often "reverse" and "cowgirl " were used in tandem. Seriously, if there are ever two words that belong togetner and should never be seperated, these are it. The only ones that may top these are "Go Blue!"
It's a technical term.
I'd like to see a count of "eee" vs "eeee" vs "eeeee" and so on.
Also, I think this brings up the point that sentences with "Barwis" probably account for half the sentences with "girl" in them. Because that's what Barwis makes us all look like by comparison.
This is a great read, coach. I have one question regarding the QBs: Shouldn't we combing Tate and Forcier (subtracting mentions of older brother Jason) and also Chad with Henne and Robo____? I think Tate may take home the bacon with over 2,000 mentions. I love bacon.
Unless a significant number of the "Tates" were in the context of "Tate Forcier," which should probably only count as one mention.
So Brian likely eats bacon for breakfast, hamburgers for lunch, pizza for dinner, and prefers Coke over Pepsi. ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW, AND NOW THEY DO.
You can infer whatever you like, but this is a question for Six Zero to answer in a future installment of MGoProfile.
Also, we got a nice accounting of kittens and all variations thereof, but what about "muppets"?
The coincidentals are all win. Possible reason for lack of food, that's his significant other's realm.
But it's missing an important word: HOWEVA.
There should be a "do not google the saltier language looking for funny pictures to post in response" disclaimer...
Yes, but how many things have been 100% pure columbian awesome?
If only phrases were involved. I think the phrase used most often last year all revolved around Mike Williams either getting owned in run support or getting burned in the passing game.
just reminds of The Big Lebowski. Specifically, the 2-minute version on YouTube.
He loves ass.
When would you use Ann and not Arbor?
Warren St. John has spent a lot of time staring at Ann Geddes calendars lately.
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