Disaster Index: 3.1 Entry: The Ratings Request Cause: Scotland supporters invited to rate their own players out of ten within hours of a group-stage fixture, a mechanism that converts performance into personal verdict and personal verdict into permanent record. Category: Emotional Evidence: Fan-rating tools exist for every fixture in every tournament. Scotland supporters completing them after a result that determines their group-stage standing are not rating players. They are filing a document about themselves. Historical precedent: The impulse to assess, score, and archive the specifics of a Scotland performance is not new. It predates the internet. The internet gave it infrastructure. Affected parties: Scotland supporters with an opinion and somewhere to put it. The players, who will be told about it. Immediate outlook: The ratings will be filed. The players will receive scores. The record will reflect what the country felt thirty minutes after full time, which is rarely what the country feels thirty days later.