The State Of Our Open Threads: After Hawaii

Submitted by LSAClassOf2000 on

Well, it's that time of the year again where, after each game, we look back and take a philosophical / statistical view of our virtual mouths. 

A quick note - I am open to some new keywords this year, so if you have any suggestions, feel free to drop them. They have to be reasonably common and pretty indicative of the blog's mood at any given moment, hence why this was initially based on profanity. Also, no charts for the first couple games because there's not a whole lot to chart obviously.

Anyway, as you might expect, the game went well for the blog. The open thread produced a total of 1,345, which is low but if you were like me, you were at the game and if you couldn't contribute on a phone browser (I did, and yikes, it's a procedure), you contributed in person, which sadly we don't track. 

Among the major track words, "Harbaugh" was far and away the biggest contribution, with 113 mentions in the thread, followed by positive words like "great" (97 times) and "nice" (70 times). We track "awesome" here, of course, but there were only eight of those, so apparently it is truly a high praise word. 

When it comes to the Original Six Words that made the core of this analyis - "fuck", "shit", "damn", "fire", "suck" and "ass", there was relatively sparse usage, which usually happens with comfortable wins. The leader was the blog's old staple expletive "fuck", with 57 instances, follow by our usual Plan B "shit" with 28 instances. 

Yes, a few people suggested someone get fired - but mostly in jest, of course. One was in reference to Don Brown, which came around the time of Hawaii's FG, and another was a well-thought out retort to Joey Galloway's very existence, if you will. The same can be said for "suck" here - in context, no one was making a serious disparaging remark, but the majority of them were clustered around the time Hawaii finally had passed into positive offensive yardage.

In all, there were 468 instances of tracked language, resulting in an efficiency rating of 2.87 for this thread, which denotes a comfortable victory (or a stunning loss) in the newly revised version of this metric in the Harbaugh world at Michigan. It fits neatly into the "Elation" quadrant of the Mood Chart, which is also the "Frustration" quadrant of the Mood Chart in the new scheme too.

So, there's the basic rundown for the first game. Well done, everyone. We shall revisit it as always next week. 

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it's Science

September 4th, 2016 at 9:24 AM ^

Take a look at Rex here. That is a body that just won't quit. I bet if you pop these pants off, you're gonna find a bird that just won't quit either. And I think that'll come in handy in this situation. I think the problem here is that your body quit. Your bird quit. And unfortunately, it's no longer...legit.



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charblue.

September 4th, 2016 at 10:01 AM ^

sports globe actually track their readers word choice and their cursatory lexicon (by choice of four-letter word, quanitative as well as qualitative in context with the in-game expressed utterance)? I'm guessing it's just like the household Harbaugh call and response mantra: NOBODY.

In any case, how about, Wow. That was all I could manage at halftime to one of the most dominating Michigan performances I have ever witnessed.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 4th, 2016 at 10:30 AM ^

The funny thing is that occasionally I will be asked how this started, and the frank answer usually is, "to make 2013 more bearable", so it was an attempt at turning frustration into something funny, which I do a lot in my life. It sort of took off from there.

As a general note, some good suggestions for additions so far. Thanks to all, and some of these might see themselves in the analysis as early as next week if I get some time to make the modifications. 

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F5

September 4th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^

I personally don't get anything out of these posts. It was interesting when it was at the tail end of Hokes tenure, but it was predictable. We are in a better state now and there is no need to track foul language anymore. My 2 cents.

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MaizeMN

September 4th, 2016 at 11:08 AM ^

I agree with this. It will be predictive. My only quandary with it is context. Good: That was impressive for a freshman. Not so good: What do you expect from a true freshman? Either way, I suspect we will be talking about them a lot this season. It would be interesting to utilize the data. I think (and hope) the context will generally be positive.

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Blusqualo

September 4th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^

Tracking word usage... Man that seems like it could produce some interesting charts, i wonder if "douche" peaked around the end of the brandon era? Does "disrespect" and various spellings peak around State week? I don't think I'd want to see what words peak during Penn State week.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 4th, 2016 at 1:27 PM ^

As I mentioned up the thread a bit, this began as a way to deal with some rather negative feelings about what was going on in 2013, and the tenor of the original idea was a mix of emotional catharsis and sacrasm. This came up late last year, and that's why I asked for some submissions for other words, so it can be adjusted to reflect the better feelings that people have in general without losing too much of a connection to its original purpose, which was admittedly a unique way to lampoon sports fandom.

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