AEW not changing the game?

I think another thing to help the W/L records seem more legit is to be consistent with tracking single, tag/multi-partner, and specialty/gimmick-match records. Someone like Scorpio Sky has a 16-7 record currently which looks hella impressive and one would argue that he should be ranked on their singles chart, 'cept most of that is from his tag run.

This week AEW plans to have a battle royale right? Are they going to notch an L on everyone who doesn't end up winning the match?

If they choose to isolate gimmick matches then commentators can reflect on that record for that wrestler for that kind of match and sell it better e.g. Havok's deathmatch record, or Cody's steel cage record. Yes it a lot more numbers to track, but that's the appeal of real professional sports - everyone has stats and fans love to track stats.

It depends on how they want to score it. These are semantics at this point.

The one good part is on the rankings they do specifically look at the singles or tag records. Ie only singles matches matter for singles rankings, etc. But yeah whenever they show records on tv I think they just pick whichever one makes the person look how they want ie Scorpio.

I hope we get more records of those gimmick matches like you said. They constantly hype guys like havoc and Luther as being death match guys, only makes sense that someone is essentially king of the ladder match, etc.

4 people is about 5% of their total roster right now.  Nakazawa barely gets any tv time anyways. He's probably spent longer on BTE since the show launched than on Dynamite.  I already explained a fair part of where I think they are still pretty sports centric, as well as what Cody said about it. 

I think if you read my post again, you can pretty much look at my comments about W/L as synonymous with rankings, I mention the rankings a lot, since they are connected. I fairly clearly (but wordily) explained why the rankings have mattered. To reiterate, #1 ranking =/= #1 contender. I don't know how they would give the #1 rank an advantage in a #1 contender match, but it could be cool. Maybe they get to choose the stipulation or something. 

The W/L records reset every year, or put in a more sports-centric way, every season. If you want a sports centered product, in a given season, you shouldn't be able to fully recovery from a terrible record. If you drop 15 of your first 20 games, you have no chance at making the playoffs that season. 

Orange Cassidy has gotten a ton of screen time, but the other thing AEW said they were going to do was consistently listen to their fans. If OC is getting a ton of screen time, it's because he's earned it.  He's proven he's a ratings boost consistently.  Blindly staying married to an original vision when the fans are telling you otherwise would be the exact opposite of what they set out to do.  I still think they've done a good job of offering a relatively sports oriented product, as much as pro wrestling can be. Again, like Cody said (and I really wish I could track down where this was), it's still pro wrestling and they still want to offer everything wrestling has, including comedy. The goal was just to be more of a sports oriented product, i.e. have the titles mean something, have wins and losses matter, etc, etc. They've done that. 

I'm not saying I don't agree with some of your points, nor am I saying they are doing everything right and perfect. Of course not, they know they're going to make tons of mistakes too. Nor can they please everyone with everything they do.  That's how things go.  However, you seem to also be stuck on them not 'delivering what they promised' and I don't think that's accurate at all. 

cody vs lance comes across as two athletes in a david vs goliath situation going at it for the prestige of winning the tv title for the first time along with settling a massive feud that involves personal issues relevant to both men. i don't really know how much more sports oriented/serious you want to get? you'll lose the casual viewer if you make it a 1970s wrestling product.

Yeah they do record keeping in terms of title reigns, and other thing as well. They don't have a win/loss record on screen, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I said they need to be different in terms of consistency and reliability.

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They have all the great WCW talent like DDP, Dustin Rhodes and Arn Anderson backstage.

"If you drink from the well, replenish the well."
-King Ezekiel

Don't worry about the indies going dry though, Vince is the king of making new stars for them with his mass firings.

I think beating NXT every week is impressive. I think(and I'm not necessarily saying from this board) some people think AEW sucks is because they aren't getting numbers on par with Raw. That's unrealistic at this point!