Concept for Generating Wrestler Fan Base

[barnestormer]

I don't know where this could lead, but this is an early concept for a system I'm coming up with for generating a wrestler's or tag team's fan base. For simplicity purposes, the Base Fan Heat in the first section is an example for starting a promotion from scratch, with champions yet to be determined.

Base Fan Heat 25 %

WAYS TO GAIN FAN HEAT

Scheduled In Match Against Major Rival	+ 5%
Scheduled In Match Against Secondary Rival	+ 3%
Using a normal move to attempt a pinfall or submission, each occurrence	+ 1%
Using a Specialty move (i.e., Jay Lethal's Lethal Combination) to attempt a pinfall or submission, each occurrence	+ 3%
Using a Finishing move to attempt a pinfall or submission, each occurrence	+ 5%
Scheduled In Special Match (i.e., cage or ladder matches, Ring of Honor Fight Without Honor, etc.)	+ 5%
Minor title match participation (includes secondary singles, tag team and women's titles)	+ 2%
Heavyweight title match participation	+ 3%

WAYS TO LOSE FAN HEAT

Losing by disqualificatio	-1 %
Losing a match by normal move (non Specialty, non-Finisher)	- 2%
Losing a match by Specialty move	- 3%
Losing a match by Finisher	- 5%
Using an illegal tactic on opponent (i.e., choke holds, low blows, hair pulling, chair shots and manager interference (regardless of success or failure)), each occurrence	- 2%
Being suspended (cumulative per each show of suspension length)	]- 5% (For example, let's say that Jay Lethal faced his rival Michael Elgin in a match and in a post-match brawl, he assisted Joey Daddiego in injuring Elgin for 3 cards. For his part in Elgin's injuries, Lethal was suspended for 6 cards. Lethal would lose 30% of his post-show Base Fan Heat, since he's not going to be building upon his Base Fan Heat because he's sitting 6 shows out at home.)

After the match's conclusion, add fan base modifiers to Base Fan Heat to determine the wrestler's new Base Fan Heat. Subtract the winning wrestler's new Base Fan Heat from the losing wrestler's new Base Fan Heat and add the result to the winning wrestler's new Base Fan Heat while subtracting the same amount from the losing wrestler's post-match Base Fan Heat. (This is how many fans the winning wrestler has won over from the losing wrestler. These fans will discuss the match on social media (maybe even post videos of the match for potential new fans to view), which will help to maintain both wrestler's post-show Base Fan Heat going into the next show they're scheduled for.)

EXAMPLE

Row 1 column 1	MICHAEL ELGIN	JAY LETHAL
Pre-Match Fan Base Percentage	25%	25%
Major Rivalry	+ 5%	+ 5%
Heavyweight Title Match Participation	+ 3%	+ 3%
Michael uses the spinning back fist to attempt a pinfall (normal move)	+ 1%
Michael uses the ELGIN BOMB to attempt a pinfall	+ 5%
Jay uses a Lethal Combination to attempt a pinfall (Specialty move)		+ 3%
Jay uses a KOJI CLUTCH to attempt a submission (Finising move)		+ 5%
Jay uses the LETHAL INJECTION to win the match	- 5%	+ 5%
Jay used an eye rake twice during the match (- 2% each occurrence)		- 4%
Modified Post-Match Fan Base Percentage	34%	42%
Fans won over by Jay for winning the match	- 6%	+ 6%
Jay is suspended for 6 shows for helping Joey Daddiego injure Michael for 3 shows during a post-match beat down (- 5% per show)		-30%
Final Post-Match Fan Base Percentages	28%	18%

WAYS TO USE BASE FAN HEAT

* Rankings system (The higher the fan base, the higher the wrestler is ranked)

* Determining title shots:

- Base Fan Heat between 75% to 94% = wrestler is eligible to challenge for secondary title; Tag Team Base Fan Heat between 75% and 100% or higher = team is eligible to challenge for tag team titles.
- Base Fan Heat between 95% to 100% or higher = wrestler is eligible to challenge for World Heavyweight title; Women's Base Fan Heat between 70% and 100% or higher = woman wrestler is eligible to challenge for Women's title.

* Determining show booking status:

Main Event: 95% to 100% or higher
Upper Card: 75% to 94%
Upper Mid-Card: 55% to 74%
Mid-Card: 50% to 54%
Lower Mid-Card: 41% to 49%
Lower Card: 31% to 40%
Lower Opening-Match: 21% to 30%
Opening-Match: 11% to 20%
Upper-Dark Match: 6% to 10%
Dark Match: 0% to 5%

When scheduling shows, the wrestler or team with the higher Fan Base Percentage will receive the higher booking status. For example, Let's say that War Machine with 92% Fan Base Percentage is booked to face The Addiction with 51% Fan Base Percentage. On the same show, Roderick Strong with 92% Fan Base Percentage is booked to wrestle Kyle O'Reilly with a Fan Base Percentage of 77%. Both War Machine and Roderick Strong qualify for Upper Card booking status, but because Kyle has a higher Fan Base Percentage than the Addiction, the War Machine vs. Addiction match will take place on the show before the Roderick Strong vs. Kyle O'Reilly match.

* Post-match Base Fan Heat can be used to determine how many fans buy a certain wrestler's or team's merchandise. For example, let's say that the venue in which you've booked your show seats 1,000 fans. War Machine's post-show Fan Base Percentage is 95% after winning the Ring of Honor World Tag Team titles from the Young Bucks, whose post-show Fan Base Percentage is 85%. Both War Machine and the Young Bucks have T-shirts available for sale at the venue, which means that 950 fans will buy War Machine T-shirts, while 850 fans will buy Young Bucks T-shirts. This could mean that 100 fans are buying just War Machine T-shirts while 850 are buying both War Machine and Young Bucks T-shirts, but it's up to the promoter to make that determination. (Obviously wrestlers and teams who have post-show Fan Heat over 100% are going to sell out their merchandise, regardless of what their current Fan Base Percentage is.)

Let me know your thoughts.

[graymar]

Couple of quick comments:

Scheduling a series of matches with a major Rivalry seems to move guys up pretty quickly.
Are you defining HEAT as only positive? For example, should heat go up if a Heel cheats and down if a face cheats?

Looking to see where this leads.

[throwingtoasters]

Wow. This is wickedly impressive. I really like it. Look forward to testing it out in my own Feds. Thanks for posting.

[barnestormer]

Jan 18, 2016 6:26:51 GMT -5 graymar said:

Couple of quick comments:

Scheduling a series of matches with a major Rivalry seems to move guys up pretty quickly.
Are you defining HEAT as only positive? For example, should heat go up if a Heel cheats and down if a face cheats?

Looking to see where this leads.

I think that for now, to keep things simple, I'm going to treat wrestler heat as only positive. Like I said, I'm not exactly sure where I want to go with this. It was just something that popped into my head last night and I wanted to see where it took me. If you want to tweak it, you're more than welcome to.

[barnestormer]

Jan 18, 2016 12:48:44 GMT -5 barnestormer said:

Jan 18, 2016 6:26:51 GMT -5 graymar said:

Couple of quick comments:

Scheduling a series of matches with a major Rivalry seems to move guys up pretty quickly.
Are you defining HEAT as only positive? For example, should heat go up if a Heel cheats and down if a face cheats?

Looking to see where this leads.

I think that for now, to keep things simple, I'm going to treat wrestler heat as only positive. Like I said, I'm not exactly sure where I want to go with this. It was just something that popped into my head last night and I wanted to see where it took me. If you want to tweak it, you're more than welcome to.

When I originally posted this reply a few days ago, I'd forgotten to mention (probably because I was in a rush to get to work) that I viewed "Major" and "Secondary" rivalries differently than what you're probably used to. Since right now the only wrestling program I'm able to see is the syndicated Ring of Honor Television show and the fact that that right now the only Filsinger Games wrestling game I'm playing right now is the ROH Wrestling Card game, I'll use my Ring of Respect roster as an example of my vision. To me, a "Major" rivalry is a story line rivalry that I've set up, either by choice (i.e., Michael Elgin vs. Michael Kai Rayne (because Rayne's currently the #1 contender for the ROR Heavyweight title which is being held by Elgin at the time of this writing), Briscoes vs. Kings of Wrestling (Jay & Mark are the #1 contenders for the ROR Tag Team titles held by the KOW at the time of this writing)) or I'm following along with a current story line that ROH is doing (i.e., Dalton Castle vs. Silas Young, Moose vs Cedric Alexander). A "Secondary" rivalry in my view is one in which the baby face and the heel was just thrown together with no particular rhyme or reason other than to create a balanced roster. (I like to see, on paper, a roster where there's always a baby face vs. a heel, whenever possible.) With that, here is my current Ring of Respect roster (The M before a rivalry denotes that it's a "Major" Rivalry in my fed, while the S denotes a "Secondary" rivalry:

Ring of Respect Roster 2016 (in PDF format)

(I attempted to do a table version of the roster earlier, but every time I went to preview it, the "table" kept "cutting itself off" half-way between War Machine vs. Bullet Club members Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows because the preview kept putting the codes to end the table after War Machine. It frustrated me to no end, so I decided to just make a PDF of if my roster and put it in my Dropbox account and link to it. One other thing to note, MsChif, Kacee Carlisle, Kimber Lee and Deonna Purrazzo won't be debuting in Ring of Respect until February, as I've already got all of this month's shows "in the can" and uploaded to Dropbox.)

Hopefully this'll clear up any confusion. As I've said before, my system's still in its "infancy" and I'm still playing around with it. So feel free to tweak it and send me your suggestions.

[graymar]

Tell me about the 'M' and 'S' designations.

[graymar]

Just figured it out...Main and Secondary

[barnestormer]

Eventually, I'm going to look to come up with some sort of story excuse for when I remove AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows from the roster now that they've signed with the WWE. I've already heard on a YouTube video that Karl probably won't be debuting in WWE/NXT until probably around the end of February because he's still under contract to NJPW and he's going to be fulfilling the last of his contract obligations before moving over.

[barnestormer]

I've been playing around with my Fan Base Heat percentage "system" in Ring of Respect, and with my current champions having Fan Base Heat percentages ranging anywhere between 175% and 739% (SPOILER ALERT: Michael Elgin's FBH% is at 739, Adam Coles is at 547, the Kings of Wrestling traded their FBH% of 175% with the Briscoes who were at 25% (because they had yet to wrestle as a team since I debuted this new "system") at the February 17 show, putting the Briscoes in line for a shot at the ROR Tag Team titles since their FBH% is higher than the 75-94% requirement needed for a title shot, plus I have one female wrestler at 176% but I'm keeping her name close to the vest for a little while.), I've decided that these extravagant percentages look extremely silly because even if a venue sells out completely, there's no way you're going to see over 700%+ of the fans in that venue cheering or booing for one wrestler or team (it's mathematically impossible). Therefore, I'm capping the highest FBH% at 100%, and capping the lowest FBH at 0% (meaning nobody's cheering or booing for this wrestler or team). Wrestlers or teams with FBH% of 100% who defeat wrestlers or teams with lower FBH percentages will still win over the loser's fans, but the amount of FBH% that the loser "loses" will be absorbed into the 100% the winner already has.

Let's use ROR Heavyweight champion Michael Elgin as an example. As stated in my SPOILER ALERT, Michael currently has a Fan Base Heat percentage of 739%. With the new cap, he has 100% fan support. He wrestles Moose (it doesn't matter whether or not the title's on the line in this example, but for argument's sake, it's non-title). Moose's current FBH% is 18%. Michael easily pins Moose with the ELGIN BOMB.

Michael Elgin's FBH%: 100%
Michael uses the ELGIN BOMB finisher: +5%
Temporary Adjusted FBH%: 105%
Subtract Moose's FBH%: 18%
Michael has absorbed 87% of Moose's fans into his 100% FBH%.
Moose's new FBH% is now -69%. Since the new lowest FBH% has been capped at 0%, Moose's new FBH% is now 0%.

But now, let's reverse the roles here. Let's have Moose pin Michael with the SPEAR.

Moose's FBH%: 18%
Moose uses the SPEAR to pin Elgin: +5%
Moose's Adjusted FBH%: 23%
Michael's FBH%: 100%
Michael loses 77% of his fans because of the pinfall loss. His new FBH% is now 23%, while Moose's has shot up to 100%, putting him in line for a shot at the ROR Heavyweight title due to the 95-100% FBH% requirement needed for a shot at the title. Because I mentioned possibly using FBH% to help determine merchandise sales, I'm also playing around with the Talent Merchandise Revenue portion of my Indy Business Model System. One of the merchandise items I've got on sale is a Michael Elgin Heavyweight champion T-Shirt, which costs $7.50 to produce and sells for $15.00. For this example, I'm going to use Ring of Respect's fictional home venue, the Dayton International Airport Exposition Center. The Expo Center actually exists at the airport and has been used for gun and knife shows, home improvement expositions, etc., but I've never actually been inside the building itself as of yet, so I don't really know if it can actually be used as a wrestling venue, but because it's close to my apartment as I live about a mile or two from it on the National Road side of the airport, I decided to use it as my fictional home base. One of these days I'll have to look into it and see if what I'm doing is plausible. Long story short, since I don't know if the actual expo center can be used as a wrestling venue, I'm going to say that the fictional version can hold a maximum of 1000 fans.

Let's continue to use the example of Moose defeating Elgin and adjusting Michael's FBH% to 23%, meaning that the next time Michael wrestles at the DAI Expo Center, assuming that the center sells out, the concession stand sells 230 Michael Elgin T-shirts, totalling $3,450.00 in sales. $1,725.00 is deducted for the production cost, leaving the remaining $1,725.00 to be split evenly between Elgin and the Ring of Respect treasurer, to add to Ring of Respect's profit or loss.

Let me know what you think.

[awsomsinger]

Great chart, and I think I might use it in my upcoming fed, WAR Wrestling. I would only add one thing, and that is, should the match end in a draw, take the difference between winner and loser, split it, then add to both wrestlers' heat. Using your example above with Elgin and Lethal, the difference is 6%, so if they were to wrestle to a draw, each would gain 3%. I only mention this because the way WAR is set up, draws could occur and they must be accounted for.