Ways to Win a Match & the Creativity of Wrestlers.
Jan 20, 2018 17:00:22 GMT -5
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Post by Turnbuckle Zealot(Phil) on Jan 20, 2018 17:00:22 GMT -5
Professional Wrestling is the interaction of two human entities engaged in the theatrical portrayal of a conflict, within the framework of wrestling's rules and the laws of physics.
Generally speaking, the majority of movements achievable by the human body are, in some way, applicable to the confines of a wrestling match.
In the field of combinatorics, mathematicians study the methods of possible combinations of a given set or multiple sets. It's a little out of the way form high school Algebra, but just about any person who's taken a college math course will have seen the equation "C=(n,r) which translates to normal person talk as "These are the possible combinations of x number of things from a set of y number of things.
As someone who has spent more than half of their conscious existence studying the art of professional wrestling and grappling martial arts as a whole, I have considered hundreds of possible combinations of holds, strikes, sequences, submissions, pinning combinations, and general wrestling tactics. So I decided to question how deeply I had scratched the surface. As you might imagine, not nearly as much as I had hoped. Now that is not to say I haven't become deeply familiar with the roughly 2,000 maneuvers on record as recognized wrestling moves or tactics. But rather, that even wrestling's greatest legends have not exhausted the possibilities of wrestling's creative potential. Not even by a significant margin.
This is where the equation I mentioned before becomes significant.
Let's pretend that only 100 moves are of relevance to Pro Wrestling. And for the sake of argument, only 25 moves are showcased in any given match.
Now if you plug in the numbers C=(100,25) and follow the steps of the formula, you will calculate the number of possible combinations 25 moves out of a set of 100.
That is to say, you will know how many possible ways there are to string together any of the 25 moves out the 100 moves agreed upon.
So what's the number? If you take 100 factorial(factorial being is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n) and divide it by the product of 25 factorial by the difference between 100 and 25 factorial(which is 75) then you have your answer.
"242519269720337121015504" That number you see in bold? There's no decimal point missing. That's the whole natural number.
Here's how you read it aloud.
forty-seven quindecillion,
six hundred forty-one quattuordecillion,
eight hundred sixty-two tredecillion,
five hundred thirty-six duodecillion,
two hundred thirty-six undecillion,
five hundred eighteen decillion,
six hundred forty nonillion,
nine hundred thirty-three octillion,
nine hundred forty-eight septillion,
seventy-five sextillion,
one hundred sixty-seven quintillion,
seven hundred thirty-six quadrillion,
six hundred forty-two trillion,
fifty-three billion,
nine hundred seventy-six million,
two hundred seventy-five thousand,
forty........
That's the possible combinations of just 25 moves out of a set of 100. And we know for a fact that there are more than 100 different wrestling moves without counting variations of the same general movement.
Now, why did someone who isn't a math nerd go to all this trouble? Because I love wrestling and I love creativity. I believe that this provides some grounds for an argument against wrestlers using sequences and spots that make no sense when there are so many potential tricks, moves, spots, sequences etc. that would make perfect sense in kayfabe, that we just haven't taken the time to figure out.
Most of you who have been on the forums for the last 8 years know my posts and know where I stand on most wrestling issues.
If you go back and look at various posts I've made, you will see where I discussed the comparison of Jazz music building on the central ideas of the genre and that there was still innovations to be made that would have made sense to legends like Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.
I often think of this idea in relation to wrestling, in that I believe there are still brilliant matches to be had that would make legends proud and skeptics change their minds about the legitimacy of wrestling as an art.
To conclude, I have a question.
"With so many options that make sense in a wrestling context, why do wrestlers bother with moves that don't make sense and hurt their business in the long run?
Here's the sites I used to do the math on that crazy big number.
www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/discretemathematics/combinations.php
And here's the site I used to figure out how to read the number.
www.mathcats.com/explore/reallybignumbers.html
Generally speaking, the majority of movements achievable by the human body are, in some way, applicable to the confines of a wrestling match.
In the field of combinatorics, mathematicians study the methods of possible combinations of a given set or multiple sets. It's a little out of the way form high school Algebra, but just about any person who's taken a college math course will have seen the equation "C=(n,r) which translates to normal person talk as "These are the possible combinations of x number of things from a set of y number of things.
As someone who has spent more than half of their conscious existence studying the art of professional wrestling and grappling martial arts as a whole, I have considered hundreds of possible combinations of holds, strikes, sequences, submissions, pinning combinations, and general wrestling tactics. So I decided to question how deeply I had scratched the surface. As you might imagine, not nearly as much as I had hoped. Now that is not to say I haven't become deeply familiar with the roughly 2,000 maneuvers on record as recognized wrestling moves or tactics. But rather, that even wrestling's greatest legends have not exhausted the possibilities of wrestling's creative potential. Not even by a significant margin.
This is where the equation I mentioned before becomes significant.
Let's pretend that only 100 moves are of relevance to Pro Wrestling. And for the sake of argument, only 25 moves are showcased in any given match.
Now if you plug in the numbers C=(100,25) and follow the steps of the formula, you will calculate the number of possible combinations 25 moves out of a set of 100.
That is to say, you will know how many possible ways there are to string together any of the 25 moves out the 100 moves agreed upon.
So what's the number? If you take 100 factorial(factorial being is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n) and divide it by the product of 25 factorial by the difference between 100 and 25 factorial(which is 75) then you have your answer.
"242519269720337121015504" That number you see in bold? There's no decimal point missing. That's the whole natural number.
Here's how you read it aloud.
forty-seven quindecillion,
six hundred forty-one quattuordecillion,
eight hundred sixty-two tredecillion,
five hundred thirty-six duodecillion,
two hundred thirty-six undecillion,
five hundred eighteen decillion,
six hundred forty nonillion,
nine hundred thirty-three octillion,
nine hundred forty-eight septillion,
seventy-five sextillion,
one hundred sixty-seven quintillion,
seven hundred thirty-six quadrillion,
six hundred forty-two trillion,
fifty-three billion,
nine hundred seventy-six million,
two hundred seventy-five thousand,
forty........
That's the possible combinations of just 25 moves out of a set of 100. And we know for a fact that there are more than 100 different wrestling moves without counting variations of the same general movement.
Now, why did someone who isn't a math nerd go to all this trouble? Because I love wrestling and I love creativity. I believe that this provides some grounds for an argument against wrestlers using sequences and spots that make no sense when there are so many potential tricks, moves, spots, sequences etc. that would make perfect sense in kayfabe, that we just haven't taken the time to figure out.
Most of you who have been on the forums for the last 8 years know my posts and know where I stand on most wrestling issues.
If you go back and look at various posts I've made, you will see where I discussed the comparison of Jazz music building on the central ideas of the genre and that there was still innovations to be made that would have made sense to legends like Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.
I often think of this idea in relation to wrestling, in that I believe there are still brilliant matches to be had that would make legends proud and skeptics change their minds about the legitimacy of wrestling as an art.
To conclude, I have a question.
"With so many options that make sense in a wrestling context, why do wrestlers bother with moves that don't make sense and hurt their business in the long run?
Here's the sites I used to do the math on that crazy big number.
www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/discretemathematics/combinations.php
And here's the site I used to figure out how to read the number.
www.mathcats.com/explore/reallybignumbers.html
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