Thuuz.com: The spoiler-free sports highlight

If the 2010 World Series, fought between the Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants, had been tested on its level of excitement, it would have received a 62 D. That's the grade you get when you average the score given to all five games of the series by the new website Thuuz.com.

Thuuz is a site, founded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Warren Packard, which measures the excitement level of any given game based on play by play information and mathematical formulas and gives the game a rating from 0-100. You, the sports fan, can sign up to the site and tailor your preferences to what alerts you will receive. Currently, Thuuz covers the five biggest sports in the country: football, basketball, soccer, baseball and hockey and the site says more are on the way.

When tailoring what alerts you will receive, either by text or email, you can choose at which level of excitement you want to receive a game alert. For myself I chose to be notified when a game in the NFL, NCAA football and the NBA reached an excitement level of 80. So when ever a game reaches an 80, my phone will buzz with an alert. This is where the catch comes in.

When you receive the alert, the message doesn't tell you the reason for the level of excitement, not even a score. The message will tell you "Good (or great) game Arizona Cardinals vs. Minnesota Vikings. Watch from 0:09 left in 1st quarter or watch live." It's the time stamp in that message that makes this website useful for fans that had to DVR the weekend's big games because they were too busy or because there's just too many games to watch in a weekend.

Thuuz proved useful this last weekend when it alerted me that the Michigan Wolverines vs. Illinois Illini football game has passed my set mark for excitement. That proved to be right. The first half was the highest scoring first half in Wolverine history with each team scoring 31 points. The game wound up going to three overtimes, had a cumulative score of 132 (another Wolverine record) and a total of over 1,200 yards in offense. Not too shabby.

But the site isn't perfect. Another game this last week between ACC rivals Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech went down to the wire. After a VT returned a kick off for a touchdown and took a 28-21 lead, GT marched down the field and with eight seconds left was in scoring position. Their last second play wound up being intercepted in the endzone, but a game that comes down to the final seconds like that should receive a higher excitement rating than a 74.     Though it isn't accurate for all games, Thuuz.com's arrival on the sports scene can make a sports fans weekend of watching endless football and basketball a little bit more manageable if not more enjoyable.