Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, October 12, 2009

How tight is the Rivers?

By Dave Anderson:


The Rivers is too tight....


No one wins there.....


It smells like old ladies and dead cats...


Those are the comments that seek to explain why the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh is pulling in roughly half the revenue per machine per day that it was projected to actually pull in.  I can not speak to the last one, but the data is present to examine the tightness question. Using the 10/4/09 data from the state Gaming Control Board, I constructed the following chart:


Rivers Tightness


For both the most recent week and the entire month of September, the Rivers was marginally stingier than its nearest competitor, the Meadows in Washington County, but marginally looser than the state average.  However the differences between the Rivers, Meadows and the state averages are miniscule, an extra win or two for a couple of credits over a few hours of play. 


It is not tightness with the slots that is keeping people away from the Rivers.  It may be a pattern of winning in that the Rivers may or may not have more jackpots and fewer "maitenance" winners of the bet amount or a small multiple of the bet amount.  It may be that, it may be something else about the winning distribution, but in aggregate, the Rivers is not "tight."
 



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