If a team loses and nobody is watching, did they actually lose the game?

According to Nielsen TV ratings, the Sunday afternoon baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Cleveland Indians on Comcast SportsNet Houston got a 0.0 rating. Zero point zero Cheap North Face Outlet 2014

Zero people.

Now, there were a few factors in this. One, the game was at noon on a Sunday, meaning just before a big NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens. By Nielsen’s count, 22% of Houston households were watching the football game.

The second factor is that Nielsen is an imprecise way to measure TV viewership. There are really only a few hundred people in a given area whose viewing habits are monitored by the company Cheap 2014 michael kors Outlet Store

Thanks to a class I slept through in high school called Statistics, Nielsen is able to generate a good guess off the habits of this sample size to estimate how many people will watch in a major city. But there is a margin of error.

This GIF seems sadly fitting.

So basically all of the Nielsen-tracked viewers were having none of this baseball game, which the Astros lost 9-2.

We’re holding out hope, though. We’re sure there’s a diehard group of Astros fans who watch every game religiously and just exist outside the Nielsen-sphere Buy 2014 soccer cleats Online

(Thanks to Houston Chronicle for sharing.)