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Old 02-22-2023, 04:03 PM   #13173
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Originally Posted by screech View Post
Related: saw on reddit a few days ago that the AEW rankings have not been updated on their website since August 31. That is still the case as of right now:
Yeah they finally did away with the rankings, which I understand because it felt like they were barely adhering to them anyway. Like it became a running joke that FTR were the top ranked team for months and months yet they'd never get a title shot, teams lower ranked than them kept getting shots and AEW made no real attempt to explain this away.

I think near the beginning Cody said that "quality of opponent" was an implied metric for deciding rankings, sorta like college football. Which again is a cool idea in theory but in practice you can see how it would hamstring them.

Like during COVID they started running 16 Dark matches a week. And yeah, it was cool that Khan was helping giving a shitload of indy workers a check every week at a time when indies weren't running. But then you had guys who lose whenever they're on Dynamite show up with a chevron showing they had a career record of like 75-19. Looked clunky.
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