It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Saying your opinions are not facts is not an attack, LTG.

However, you saying that I am the "dimmest bulb posting here" is a personal attack.

2nd personal attack. I still haven't leveled one yet for the record. First two pages

Who gives a fuck about chronology dumbass? Show that you have a functioning brain for once. Actually demonstrate that you have pedagogical capacity and stop with sophomoric internet bullshit.

Is reading that difficult "lights out"?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

this idiotic discussion started off as off-season out of market star NFL player news vs. in season NBA news..... yet now you are celebrating NBA conference finals ratings and wailing against a "nobody wants NBA talk" strawman. you are delusional, and yes i remain impressed by your delusion.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

The We Believe Warriors with Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson (team that upset Dallas in the playoffs) had a fanbase that was much different than that of today. It is evidenced by the cheap ticket prices that they had.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I guess you make straw men on the side to supplement your goalpost moving business.

Nobody is saying that nobody cares about the NBA. This whole line aof arguing across multiple threads started because YOU pitched a fit that the NFL was being discussed in March instead of the NBA on chicago sports radio.

You asked how it could possibly be so that radio programmers see off-season NFL discussion as more compelling to their listeners than an out of town NBA matchup as the season winds down. I provided you a plausible explanation in this thread, and your only resort is to call names.

You're a trash poster and human being.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Who started this thread?

Who started the thread linked below?
viewtopic.php?f=128&t=111647

I'll give you a hint. The same idiot started both of them.



That idiot is you. Deal with it.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

National-level, off-season discussion of the NFL will engage with NFL fans at some unknown rate, let's call it X.

National-level, in-season discussion of the NBA will engage with NBA fans at some unknown rate, let's call it Y.

Let's call the total number of NFL fans in the coverage area of WSCR's signal (the original station that touched off the controversy here) X'.

Let's call the total number of NBA fans in the coverage area of WSCR's signal Y'.

In order for the premise "National NBA talk is more appealing/compelling in March than off-season national NFL talk" to be true, the following must be true:

Y*Y' > X*X'

Let's pick some figures for X and Y, just for fun. I'll say that 40% of NFL fans will find off-season, national-level discussion of the league to be interesting/compelling, and I'll also say that 80% of NBA fans find in-season, national-level NBA discussion to be the same. That means 2 out of every 5 NFL fans want to hear about Odell Beckham in March, whereas 4 out of every 5 NBA fans would like to hear about any out-of-town NBA matchup in March. I'd say that's fair, if not shaded a little bit towards the NBA's favor.

Let's plug those in, we now have:

0.8*Y' > 0.4*X'

Now we have to approximate the relative size of each sport's respective fandom. I think it would be reasonable to approximate the distribution of fandom in this town based on national distributions of same. There doesn't appear to be a reason for fans in this town to skew away from national trends towards NFL or NBA fandom, at least to me. I also think that regular season tv ratings are the best bet we have at approximating "true" sizes of each fandom, and it also helps that TV ratings have been discussed a lot for each league in this thread. in the 2017-2018 season, the NBA averaged 1.4 million viewers on national telecasts this year. The NFL for the same time frame averaged 14.9 million viewers per game. Let's call it 1.5 and 15 for each respective league a ratio of NFL to NBA fandom of 10:1.

But that's not entirely fair: The NBA has a much longer season than the NFL. Let's express "total viewership" instead. With the 1.5 million viewership average of the NBA, with 30 teams playing an 82 game season, that results in 1230 individual games played. As a fudge factor, we will assume that all NBA games get their national broadcast viewership, resulting in 1.845 billion views of a regular NBA season. The NFL has 32 teams playing a 16 game season, for 256 discreet matchups, resulting in 3.84 billion views per regular NFL season. The average NFL season viewership is a little more than twice the size of the average NBA season viewership. Let's call it 2:1, NFL to NBA. Let's plug and chug:

0.8*1.845 > 0.4*3.84

1.476 > 1.536?

Hmm, something isn't right with our original premise, because the figures used, the ones heavily slated towards the NBA (remember, each NBA regular season matchup got its national broadcast equivalent viewership, while the NFL just got the actual average rating for each game), give us an absurd result.

Given these figures, I would bet good money that the sheer size of NFL fandom makes off-season NFL discussion, even at a national level, more compelling to a greater number of listeners than does regular season, national-level, NBA discussion.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Great thread until JLN tried to introduce calculus or some shit.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Did you miss the time he attempted to razz me for not being as popular as LeBron James?

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

This condescending asshole actually thought he was insulting someone's intelligence with this bullshit. There are a lot of commas and run on sentences in that piece of bullshit drivel by the way. From a guy that fashions himself as an intellectual. Nathaniel Hawthorne he is not.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

2nd personal attack. I still haven't leveled one yet for the record. First two pages

Notice how this asshole has no problem with telling people how they think? You wouldn't really want me to tell the world what you really think now would you Lying Notes? I guarantee that it would not be a pretty picture now would it?

That's the number of households, not the population.

Once again, you are a dolt.

Learn to fucking read before you post

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Now HERE is a personal attack, LTG. And this is you directing a post towards me.

This is why I am calling you a liar. I am not attacking you, while you are repeatedly attacking me.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

At this point it is Ogie COO of the Bias Brigade time. At no point did I engage any of them first. At no point did I initiate personal attacks. Each time my attack was in response to something that was said to me.

I don't do this shit for sympathy as I could give a flying fuck. I'm silly illustrating how shit often descends into madness because certain people will always invariably make it personal. When it goes there I will go there. If you don't want to go there then stop doing it. If your goal is to run me off you aint going to do it. You look stupid for trying the dumb shit. I will just dig for the purpose of digging in. I don't give a shit so stop because i have proven that I won't.

Now cue the damn mult!

Damn you are an idiot. A damn idiot. That is the only way to describe it.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Who will run out of steam first ?
This is a war of attrition

At no point did I initiate personal attacks. Each time my attack was in response to something that was said to me.

The millionth self congratulatory declaration of an imaginary message board victory. Predictable.

At some point cash in your poker chips. Don't play the Buffet coupon as part of the money you have to gamble with. Actually eat the Buffet meal. Make sure you have enough to satisfy the requirements of the Indiana tollway and simply bring your ass home before you are even more bankrupt than you were before you left for the Casino.

This might be one of the dumbest arguments that you have ever attempted to make and that says a lot provided the particular subject. You really aren't particularly bright are you?

But you are comparing the CFs to a championship telecast


I'm also not interested in changing the debate (though i know you are) Off season Football vs in season NBA. If you want to debate then counter the mendacious stats provided by Juice's Lying Notes. He'll debate you.

Do you actually have common sense? The reason for not using the total draw is because the total draw (you may not have noticed) stretched out over three days. No matter the metric you use you lose. You have no problem talking about a "meaningless regular season game between Milwaukee and Utah" whenever it floats your boat but for some reason you take issue with talking about days 2 and 3 of the draft. Is there any doubt as to whether we'd be arguing this if the numbers were actually in your favor?


First day of the draft 11 million viewers over 6 channels


Second Day 2 Million over 6 channels


Third Day 2 million over 6 channels. Why is it so difficult for you understand? The first day of the draft is the only day that people are really interested in and a Meaningless game between "Utah and Milwaukee" probably will outdraw days 2 and 3.

People actually care about the NBA more during NFL off Season. Get over it. The NBA has about 10 inseason events that outdraw the highest rated event (first day of the NFL draft) during its season and post season. Again get over it.

Who will run out of steam first ?
This is a war of attrition

Thread of the year material. This is like when LeBron scored 29 straight or whatever to eliminate Detroit. All time performance.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

25

G.O.A.T.

Only 25?

I apologize for the insult LTG

I am use to the proverbial insults of my character. No surprise there. If people want a show, I will give them one without equivocation. No more no less.

Lebron is not viewed as a good basketball player in most circles. He does not stand up to scrutiny. He beat a lot of amateur teams in his time. He is a modern day Stacey Augmon.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Darren Rovell@darrenrovell

JUST IN: Game 1 of the NBA Finals is NOT a sellout. Warriors still have hundreds of seats left to sell. Almost 300 upper level seats, 100 lower level seats still available on primary market 15 minutes before tip.

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.