The unofficial online home for fans of the Old Dominion University Monarchs. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

Source: https://www.goodbullhunting.com/2018/9/4...sery-index

The Fan Misery Index (FMI) uses a simple integer scale of 1 to 9 to measure how much suffering each teams fans are experiencing through the course of a season.

The two most important concepts to understand are:

1) Generally speaking, fans of good teams are just as miserable as the fans of bad teams. This is because of Football Satan’s right-hand man, a foul demon known only as “Expectations”.

2) Football is pain and the base emotion is misery, so all teams start off the season in the Third Circle.

A Team's Fans go UP a level if they:

- beat their rival (for us, we'll call it Charlotte)
- put together a 3 game win streak
- put together a 5 game win streak
- are unranked and beat a ranked team
- are ranked and beat a team ranked higher than them
- beat a P5 team by 21 points or more
- make the college football playoff

A Team's Fans go DOWN a level if they:

- lose to their rival (Charlotte)
- put together a 3 game losing streak
- put together a 5 game losing streak
- are ranked and lose to an unranked team
- lose to any FCS opponent
- lose any game by 21 points or more
- fail to become bowl eligible

So where does that put us after Week 1? Level 4.

We start at Level 3 out of 9. The higher the number, the more miserable we are (think 9 circles of hell).

Since we lost by 21 points or more, we have moved down from Level 3 to Level 4.