dragonzombie Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 NXT TakeOver 36 set Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 NOT ENOUGH SKULLS 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Dog said: I mean, Darby vs. Page, right? If you want to pick nits, they billed it as a "coffin match", not a "casket match." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 6 hours ago, D.Z said: Anyway more ratings newz from Adweek: "The Media Rating Council, the third-party accreditation organization that checks Nielsen and other measurement firms’ methodology, is likely to reach a decision about the status of Nielsen’s national TV service early this week—and the industry is bracing for Nielsen’s longstanding National TV measurement service to lose its accreditation, opening another major fissure in its longstanding but increasingly threatened measurement backbone." This is one of those things that's kind of nerdy but really interests me. We've been told for decades that the way Nielsen does it's ratings are insanely accurate. But in my mind there's no way that's possible. The average Nielsen viewer counts for 10,000 people. You're going to tell me they have enough data to be confident that customer number 242 watches the exact same TV shows as 10,000 other people from his demographic? There's absolutely no way it can be accurate. Beyond that tho, we are in the year 2021. How have cable & satellite providers not baked in some kind of digital viewership counter?? I know there are parts of the country that still run old school cable without a digital set top box. But they have surely been eclipsed by now. Why doesn't DirecTV, Spetrum, Comcast ect just put digital technology into the boxes that are part of the user agreement that track viewing? That's the crazy part to me. It's certainly possible. And fairly easy to implement compared all the other technologies we have. Yet we still bank on good old customer 242 to have 10,000 friends that watch the same shit he does all day every day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, L_W_P said: The Khans (Nick and Tony) are not related BUT they might be. The Saudis have money. Shahid Khan is Pakistani-American, not Saudi. This map might help. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 17 minutes ago, kafkonia said: If you want to pick nits, they billed it as a "coffin match", not a "casket match." What's the functional difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 The Fire Russo match was actually really good, up until the overbooking kicked in. Sting vs Abyss in a TNA-ified version of a casket match where the bed went up in the air. Sting got hardwayed by a candle holder. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 So... Sasha vs. Bianca not happening? Damn that SummerSlam card gonna suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Do we have any real idea of why they missed their house show appearances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Niners Fan in CT Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 14 minutes ago, Dog said: Do we have any real idea of why they missed their house show appearances? No.. just that "unforeseen circumstances" is probably WWE code for covid considering they pretended it didn't exist for months and months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 36 minutes ago, Dog said: What's the functional difference? Functional? I dunno. But technically, a casket and a coffin are two different things. I will defer to the experts as to whether one is more correct than the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 40 minutes ago, Dog said: What's the functional difference? Paging @Nice Guy Eddie 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystman Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 28 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: So... Sasha vs. Bianca not happening? Damn that SummerSlam card gonna suck. Has this been confirmed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, mystman said: Has this been confirmed? no but PWinsider said sources inside WWE said they are scrambling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Just add the woman who was just in mexico. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarrie Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, NoFistsJustFlips said: This is one of those things that's kind of nerdy but really interests me. We've been told for decades that the way Nielsen does it's ratings are insanely accurate. But in my mind there's no way that's possible. The average Nielsen viewer counts for 10,000 people. You're going to tell me they have enough data to be confident that customer number 242 watches the exact same TV shows as 10,000 other people from his demographic? There's absolutely no way it can be accurate. That's not how sampling works. Suppose, rather than trying to determine what percentage of people watch a specific TV show, you're trying to determine what percentage of rolls of a given die come up 1. (You're not sure whether the die is fair, in other words.) The number of times you could possibly roll a die is infinite. Does that mean, to draw any conclusions, you have to roll a reasonable fraction of infinite times? Of course not. Just roll that sucker a thousand times, and if it comes up 1, say, a hundred times, you can be reasonably confident the probability of it coming up 1 is close to 10%. Doesn't matter that you've in effect sampled exactly zero percent of the total population you're trying to study. It's the same thing with literal sampling. If you can pick members at random from your population and do so a thousand times, then if you find a hundred people watched TV Show A then you can be reasonably confident that 10% of the population watched TV Show A. If you picked ten thousand people or a million people you could be even more confident, of course. But whether the population size is 100 times bigger than your sample or 10,000 times bigger or a million times bigger isn't really relevant. It's that "if you can pick members at random" part that's the trick, incidentally, and the reason why polls are often inaccurate. Generating a truly random sample is hard. Almost any practical method will introduce biases of some sort. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: Paging @Nice Guy Eddie I had a similar discussion via PM three years ago and here's what he said: "Although caskets and coffins are used for the same purpose, they are two different things. A coffin is constructed with six sides, a top and a bottom, while a casket is constructed of FOUR sides, a top and a bottom. Coffins are what you have seen in old movies. They are still used in some foreign countries, however in the United States, we primarily use caskets." 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Thanks @tbarrie, that was a great post. I was definitely a bit off in my assumptions. Although I was a bit off the mark, I still stand by there being better technology to go from reasonably confident to factually accurate. And I'd be very interested to see how much of a variance there is between accurate digital readings vs the Nielsen model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Follow-up question: Isn't the match fundamentally the same, whatever the chosen receptacle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 In which case you could argue that Buried Alive matches, Stretcher Matches and Ambulance matches are all technically part of the "Put my opponent into a thing" stipulation match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 And Body Bag matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 3 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: So... Sasha vs. Bianca not happening? Damn that SummerSlam card gonna suck. Sasha Banks vs. Bianca Belair was the SummerSlam match I most looked forward to with Roman Reigns vs. John Cena. That's it. 2 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: No.. just that "unforeseen circumstances" is probably WWE code for covid considering they pretended it didn't exist for months and months. That's what came first to my mind with "unforeseen circumstances" . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 5 hours ago, L_W_P said: Ok so putting 2+2 together with all these rumors/suspicions - Vince is looking to sell. Triple H failed with NXT. Cody might be 'going back' to WWE. WWE are 'helping' AEW by letting them sign certain stars. Ric Flair's release. The Khans (Nick and Tony) are not related BUT they might be. The Saudis have money. John Cena is back for his record setting world title run. Conclusion - Vince McMahon, under the supervision of the Saudis, in conjunction with the extended Khan dynasty, is working with AEW to eliminate Ric Flair from the history books by setting up John Cena to dethrone Kenny Omega as AEW champion as part of a WWE sale to a Khan financed Cody Rhodes. Vince realised that Dusty was the real star behind NXT and is going to leave his empire in the hands of Dusty's son. In exchange, Vince gets paid, but he also gets to leave the legacy of his greatest WWE created star (Cena) eclipsing the WCW/NWA guy (Flair) by dominating Cody's new #1 rival (Omega/AEW). We're through the looking glass here people... I love it, but what about The Reverse Vampires? - RAF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 2 hours ago, odessasteps said: Just add the woman who was just in mexico. Tessa Blanchard? Yes please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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