Strugg-a-ling with my fed

[Slymm]

I have been going back and forth in my head on how to run my fed for the longest time, and it's almost to the point where I may just give up. LOL. No seriously!

I am not sure how to format my fed. By that I mean, should I incorporate TV shows, house shows and occasional Supercards/PPV's, or just regular card after regular card after regular card, if that even makes sense.

The format I have now (prior to starting) has a TV show being held every Friday night. I have house shows (or Live Events) scheduled after every 2nd or third TV show. A couple "Saturday Night Main Event" type cards are scheduled twice in the year, replacing two of the house shows. And 4 bigger shows (PPV's or Supercards), in March, June, August & December. This adds up to 74 cards in my first year.

I'm just not sure this is the way I want to do this. The 2nd format I was thinking of doing it was simply to have 1 card per week. A TV show every Friday. However, as with above, after every 2nd or 3rd TV show, the next would be replaced with a house show (instead of making it an additional show). So in hindsight, there wouldn't be a TV show every week. There would indeed be a show every week, but it may be a TV, house or PPV. This adds up obviously to only 52 cards per year.

The 3rd format I'm thinking of is pretty much the same as the 52 card per year format, except every card would either be a TV show (and occasional PPV) OR every card would be a house show, no mix and match.

And lastly, the final much simpler format I am considering is just to have 25 cards a year, all house shows with 1 or 2 PPV's.

I'm sure this all sounds absolutely ridiculous, trust me I KNOW!!! And I hate it, I think I think WAY too much. I commend each of you who are running your feds and sticking to them, I really do. I wish I could come up with a format I like and stick to my guns.

If anyone has any input regarding this, PLEASE feel free to add your 2 cents. Thanks in advance.

Mike

[dukedave]

I've toyed around with several different ideas in my many different years of feds but the most common is one RAW type show per week and one PPV per month. Usually I would not have a RAW on the week of a PPV so I'd have 52 cards/year.

I'm currently focusing on Legends since I'm caught up on GWF. I'm doing exactly that method without removing RAW on the weeks of PPV's so I'll wind up with 64 cards/year.

Just go with what you want to do best, you can always change it. I at times went with 2 shows a week and one PPV a month for 116 cards/year. That was a little much (although the weekly cards were small) for me.

[captainlou]

I think you are overthinking it a bit,too. But believe me, this is coming from someone who spent close to a month researching the wrestlers online to try & come up with my feds & storylines. The bottom line is, just do what feels right to you. And especially, don't try to compete with some of the guys on this board. I post results from all my cards & have gotten exactly 1 response, which tells me that a) either everyone here has no use for what I'm doing OR b) who cares what they think, right? This is a game, not a job & it's supposed to be fun. And as long as I have fun, the purpose is served. Now, for what it's worth, I run 3 seperate federations, incorporating all of the "regular" cards & the majority of the "limited" cards. I run 3-4 cards for each fed & then have 1 pay-per-view encompassing all 3 of them. Once the Legends of the Future set is FINALLY released (hint,hint) I will be taking one of my feds & incorporating the new set into that one, and will begin running it as a seperate entity from the other 2. (I try to keep a reasonable sense of chronology with the feds, so all of the "older" guys are in 1 fed, the majority of the 80's guys in another & finally, the more recent cards, as well as the independent cards & the new set will be in a 3rd.) When the new cards FINALLY arrive, I will start running seperate PPV's for that promotion & they will have no affiliation with the other 2. Confusing,eh? Exactly, but it's what works for me & that's what's most important here, figure out what works best for you & have fun with it. The BEST thing about this board is that there is always someone willing to help out by offering advice or answering any questions you might have. And remember, just like in "real" wrestling, if something's not working for you, you can always change it by rewriting the script...

[maddog1981]

Why not go into the fed forum and see how people run their shows? Everyone has their own way of running their feds and I think you could see what you like and dislike and then run a mix of the ideas you like.

I run my fed like an old territory. I have several tv shows and 90% of the matches on television are squash matches. But I went out, decided the feel I wanted my fed to have to another reader and went for that.

[Slymm]

Thanks guys for all your feedback, I really appreciate it. I'm toying with a couple ideas, but in a couple days I'll decide and just go with it. It's just a game right, and it's supposed to be fun, not a headache. I'm doing this to myself LOL.

But again, thank you.

Mike

[maddog1981]

And there's nothing that says you can't change things mid-stream and add or subtract television from the mix.

[j]

I used to do 1 card a week and 1 PPV a month, but the 64 cards became a little too much. Now I do 1 TV show every other week with 4 dark matches and 12 regular matches and I only do a PPV every other month with nearly everyone having a match. This gives me 32 cards and that has been much easier to handle.

[Humanoids4eva]

I do not do anything special with my fed, but play a card once a week. I fell behind posting results due to finishing my MBA, but am getting caught up. My advice to you is to do what you enjoy the most: if you like the format of TV setting up PPV, do that. If you prefer old-school arena shows do that. I pretend my "tv" is taped from select matches from the card while keeping a special match or two as non-televised. If you have a favorite area, era or company emulate that, but either way have fun .

[woodbury]

I normaly do 1 raw and 1 smackdown show a week and 1 ppv a month. it works pretty well for me and it helps create more storylines. i sometimes throw in a couple of house shows when i'm not to busy.

[pressslam]

It's easy to overthink things and become overwhelmed. My suggestion to you is to chunk things down into smaller bits. First decide how many cards constitute a game year for you. Then I would decide how many PPV's you will have, it might only be 4, for example a big Wrestlemania type show, a Royal Rumble of some sort, a Summerslam and a Great American Bash etc. Of course you can come up with somthing totally original.
To sum up what others have been pointing out I wouldn't be too rigid, if for example you have a weekly show but decide that you are going to have a card of dark matches for the lower ranked guys out of the blue then do it. Do the math and work out how many shows fill in between the 4 gaps where your PPV's will be and you are ready to go!