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Apr 10 2008 10:47PM EDT

Chart of the Day: A Different Kind of Confidence Index

An idea well worth repeating from Rays Index, a blog covering the perennially-hapless Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The site tracks the sentiment of Rays fans on the current and future outlook for the team:

What's particularly interesting is that in more conventional confidence indices, consumers tend to say future conditions will be worse than present ones. This chart showing the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers' index of current sentiment (red) versus future sentiment (blue) illustrates the point:

What's the reason? My guess is that it takes an unusual breed of human to be a Rays fan.

Rays Index also has a couple interesting items that should please the Yankees and Red Sox haters out there -- but I'd advise against wearing them in Boston or the Bronx:

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