The State Of Our Open Threads: After Ohio State

Well, as we end our season on a disappointing 5-7 mark, this shall be the final individual entry for "The State Of Our Open Threads" though there will be a season summary coming in the next few weeks with some additional analysis and all that fun stuff. For now, we'll focus on this fucking game.

Contrary to my initial expectations for this one, our reaction was comparatively muted although it was still quite rife with the usual content. We gave 275 "fucks" and 96 "shits" regarding this game, a massive improvement over Maryland but still short of some other performances this year, most notably the 484 "fucks" we gave during the Rutgers game. All in all, however, the total instances of tracked words for this game represent 11.15% of the seasonal total, which isn't bad in a season with 12 games. 

How did it make us feel? We were upset, and understandably so. Here's the Mood Chart:

You'll note that a slight alteration was made after the Maryland thread - indeed, "Satisfaction" and "Despondent" tend to represent themselves similarly in this analysis, but I still defend the tool. As for this game, We were in the "Anger" quadrant squarely, right along with four other games. We spent much of the season angry for many good reasons.

For this game, we managed an overall efficiency score of 4.13, which is not a top peformance for this blog, believe it or not. Here's the season graph:

Our most concentrated spleen was way back at the point where we were slapped 31-0 by ND, and then we had a rough stretch in October, and then these last three games. The score of 4.13 would actually be the sixth best score this year, but then there was also a fair amount of relief expressed in the thread, which perhaps muted the reaction a bit. Also, we are a bit beaten down as fans. Not a bad performance by us, but it gets lost in a season of bad performances, as you can see. 

To go along with this, here is the normalized graph for major contributors to the count:

All six major contributors were used at a rate well above the mean for each, but nothing terribly flashy in the sense of how badly we wanted someone fired after Miami (OH), how much shit we experienced during the Utah game, how much we sucked at Northwestern and so forth. We were very measured in our venting, but still more pissed than the mean for being pissed. We call that "The Pissed Mean", which goes right along with "The Pareto Our Our Discontent" (that will be in the season summary).

One thing that does affect things like efficiency and mood scoring, of course, is thread size. The Ohio State thread, which was really two threads (thanks to a rare 2nd half thread this year) was the largest for us by just a little bit:

Three times this year, we saw posting volume exceed 2,400 posts - Utah, Rutgers and now Ohio State. One of the major confounding factors here is the cessation of a standing LiveBlog and limited availability of other liveblogs (I think traffic is capped on Blyve if you have a free acount), so more posting occurs. In any case, it was an impressive volume all the same.

For your amusement, two of the typical dynamics that are tracked, just so you can see their relationship throughout the year. Somewhat extensive research shows that some of the words tracked trend well together, at least now and again - definitely sometimes but not all the time. Science and all that, right?

So, there's Ohio State. We were pissed, but we're used to it this season. Hopefully, things like this change soon, for our own sake.