Sorry, another ratings thread!

[anarchist2]

Hi folks. I've been thinking about the current ratings systems and whether any alternatives can be offered.

I should start by saying that I play exclusively online and that I use information that I think is exclusively found in the gallery section.
Secondly my feds are all a work so far as I'm concerned and the following ideas don't make any sort of sense if for you the fighting is real.

The online gallery gives you the position on the card that a given wrestler occupies (Main Event, Upper Midcard, Midcard, Lower Midcard & Opener).

It stands to reason (to me at least) that the higher up the card the more entertaining that wrestlers matches will be (that's why the promoter put them in the main event spot).

So idea one is to apply * to each position (***** for Main Eventers down to * for Openers). Add the * of the wrestlers together and divide by participants.
e.g. in 2087 Thantos (Main Event) faces Massif (Midcard) so it's (5*+ 3*)/2 = 4* This is the par score for the match. Add * for a feud match and another * for a title match.

Then roll the match as normal and as per the most common rating systems recommended on this forum each token = ½*
Finally average out the par score with the score from the rolled match.

So, imagine that in 2087 Thantos & Massif have a match for the Galaxian Title. The par score will be 5* (lots of excitement from the fans for this one). You roll the match and end up with 7 tokens, therefore 3½*. The average of 5* and 3½* is 4¼* and this is the match rating.

Obviously this system doesn't produce any DUD results. Any match that ends on a DQ or countout without any tokens I count as DUDs.

To avoid having too many high rated matches I don't add a token to a match when the final pin roll is equal to the wrestler's initial Pin (e.g. 2 for Thantos or 4 for Commander Sam). If the match ends on the 1st pin roll and the result is below the wrestler's Pin, I deduct the difference in *.

Say Thantos faces Commander Sam (Lower Midcard) in a non-title match the par would be 3½*. Thantos quickly slaps on the Masterlock and Sam rolls a 2. As this is 2 below his pin the match has a rating of -2*. Average this with the par score of 3½* gives an actual rating of ¾* (very disappointed fans).

[anarchist2]

Idea 2 also uses the position of the wrestlers and is a lot simpler.



Any tokens added to an opener adds nothing to the match rating (no-one is invested in Reptillo getting pinned. It's expected).

A token added to a Lower Midcarder adds ¼*, to a Midcarder ½*, to an Upper Midcarder ¾* and a Main Eventer a whole *.

The idea here is that near falls are more dramatic in main event matches than lower down the card.

[anarchist2]

BTW, I wanted to address what I term the "Masterlock Problem".

Imagine 2 matches, Thantos v Star Warrior & Lord Nexus v Star Warrior.

The dice in both matches favour Star Warriors opponent and everytime Star Warrior rolls his pin against his opponents finisher he rolls 1 higher than his rating (3 then 4,5 etc, etc).

So, against Lord Nexus he will get to 10 tokens but against Thantos he will get just 1 as the Masterlock has a finisher rating of +4.

Therefore mathmatically Thantos matches should have lower ratings in the usual rating systems.

I suggest the following; When a wrestler is pinned by rolling higher than their pin rating but below the number needed due to finisher rating, add tokens to the number rolled.

e.g. Neither wrestler has any tokens when Thantos slaps the Masterlock onto Star Warrior. SW rolls a 6. Due to the finisher rating of the Masterlock this finishes the match and we add the number of tokens that would have taken SW's pin rating to 6 (i.e.4). Star Warrior must really have sold the move!