The State Of Our Open Threads - After Army

Although it would not be the first time that the open thread for a football game was an utter catastrophe (usually, in a manner eerily similar to the game) even after a win, the Army game was, well, different in some respects. 

Many home games, for example, don't generate a lot of posts in comparison to away games. The average for a home last year, for example, was about 1,800 posts compared to about 2,400 for an away game, and that's been reasonably consistent even going back to when we started tracking all this in the middle of the Hoke years. This game generated 3,122 replies. 

The 546 fucks that we gave, although not a record (this belongs to 2016 Ohio State at 750), puts this game - a win - firmly in the top ten across what will be seven seasons of data once this season's numbers are in the books. That makes it one of the most harrowing wins in all the time I've been doing this, at least according to the data, and when taken in combination with other totals from this game, perhaps the most harrowing.

Let's consider, for example, the 546 fucks against the 76 instance where people called for someone's head (our "fire" metric). Harbaugh dominated this category, followed closely by Gattis, and there were even some Don Brown mentions thrown in there. The 58 instances of "suck", while actually not a record even in the Harbaugh years, is well above the average for th Harbaugh years. This year, we're also tracking "speed" for the "speed in space", and almost every one of the 56 mentions was sarcastic, which is totally expected. 

"Shea" is being tracked as well to gauge our feelings on the QB situation, and among the 249 instances of "Shea", most of them were of the variety that clearly wanted to see the Patterson era come to an abrupt end at various points in the game. That goes along with the 129 callouts of the offense specifically, which also interrelates to the sarcasm tossed at "speed in space". The bottom line, of course, is what you already know - many of you are not happy with the offense. 

All in all, there were 1,716 instances of tracked words (including 149 shits and 62 damns - we need to go to these more), and when we put that against 3,122 posts, you get an efficiency rating of 1.82, which actually is more consistent with losses than wins (a great majority of our losses are 2.0 or better). 

So, yeah, never schedule a service academy again.