The State Of Our Open Threads: After Wisconsin
We saw a little glimmer of how the blog handles its adversity during the first half of the Colorado game when things did not go all that well, needless to say, but yesterday in a game against a conference opponent with a legitimate defense, a game that some strangely thought we could dance through, we received an interesting insight into game-long adversity.
Despite winning, we managed to do something that we haven't done in all the time I have been doing this - nearly literally doubled the fucks.
In the first four games, we managed to accumulate 487 fucks, and in three hours of old school Big Ten drudgery, we accumulated 422 fucks. If there's a headline from the game that applies to this little feature, it is definitely that. Although we tacked on a 25% increase in shit and a nearly 50% increase in "damn" in just one game, the totall fucks were something to behold. Now, granted it was concentrated around one phase of the game which came pre-imploded this time around, as well as the Newsome injury and a couple other events, but still it was fascinating.
So, let's take a look at the tempo-adjusted fucks - our FART (Fucks Adjusted For Real Time) rate for this game was 2.110, or essentially a little over 2 fucks per minute of total airtime, and our SHART (Shits Adjusted For Real Time) was 0.325, so we used shit sparingly in this game and went right to fuck. FAP Rate (Fucks Adjusted For Total Plays) comes in at 3.271, or a little over 3 fucks per snap. Both FART and FAP are at their highest levels since 2015 Penn State.
The combined FART / SHART, or SQUIRT, came in at 6.492, which indicates a pretty stressful fuck-filled game, heavy on the fucks compared to shits. The last time it was that high? 2014 Rutgers, bur let's never discuss this game so long as we all shall live, right?
As for the thread itself, across 2,100 replies we had 941 tracked instances, which comes to an overall efficiency rating of 2.23, but as you can see below, when you have a thread that by itself accounts for about 27% of all tracked instances over five games, it's easy to achieve that. Interestingly, all efficiencies so far this year have been in a range between about 2.90 and 2.20, which means we're overall pretty steady-handed about the season so far, I think.
If we look at the Original Six analysis with normalized values, you can see how much Colorado and now Wisconsin stand out as games have gone so far this season.
So, Colorado - heavy on "shit" and "suck", and Wisconsin was heavy on "fuck" and "damn" in comparison to other games. Seems like seasons of old to me. Maybe we 're settling into that familiar pattern of Michigan football stress after all.
Rutgers should be interesting in a different way - perhaps not so stressful this coming week.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:05 AM ^
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:05 AM ^
The end of the 1st half - with all the penalties, overthrown passes and missed FGs - visions of Hoke flashed before my eyes and a started speaking in a cursed tounge.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:17 AM ^
and you probably started each sentence with a "Well...."
October 2nd, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
One must remember that the Hokedoes not wear off overnight.
Or we can go with these are college students who are dealing with a whole other level of nerves in this game. It's a good learning experience.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:14 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^
Mmmmm...SQUIRT...
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
polysyllabic on that one.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 8:10 PM ^
Shit yes, we can do better. Our SHART is pathetic. And we did so well in practice - we just need to execute.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^
I have plenty more fucks to give too!
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
I read these to my wife every Sunday morning, and she dies laughing. Thank you! LOL
October 2nd, 2016 at 11:06 AM ^
October 2nd, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^
Sadly, I couldn't find any FInkel references in the thread, but I thought about that.
However, if you were over on Twitter, there was someone who did say something like - "Kenny Allen is Finkel, Finkel is Kenny Allen?"
I should not have, but I did chuckle.
October 2nd, 2016 at 11:38 AM ^
October 2nd, 2016 at 12:03 PM ^
I managed to keep myself pretty tranquil during the game, but afterwards, I was exhausted.
October 2nd, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
I did not know of these chartz! This gives us excellent analysis into our mgoblog population's emotional thresh hold and stability. I do absolutely love this. Way to go LSA!!!
October 2nd, 2016 at 12:05 PM ^
Are you counting that right? According to my kids I yelled that at least 200 times and typed it each time I yelled it. I know I wasn't the only one. Might want to recount...
October 2nd, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
was me. I saw the 2099 comments and went all OCD and added a fluff comment to make it an even 2100
October 2nd, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^
FART, SHART and FAP? Sounds like we're coming off a heavy night of drinking.
October 2nd, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
with a side bar graph or dial showing "fucks" in real time.
A live "Fuckometer" as it were.
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