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Subject: Royal Rumble Scoring Change proposal
Posted by: Mattinglyinthehall
- Sustainer [217351118] Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 16:40
I know this is months in advance, but this was an issue last year as there were a number of Rumble results that we weren't happy with last year and while going throuh old threads I remembered we never settled this. I proposed a change, but since there wouldn't be another one for a year, we didn't talk about it very much.
Here's the Royal Rumble scoring results thread.
This was my proposal:
12 + (elimination rank [winning counts as being eliminated #30]) - (entrance rank) + (# of wrestlers eliminated)
and also +40 for the winner
If we had used this formula for last year's RR, it would have produced a range of totals from 0 (for Goldust who was the 27th to enter, 15th to get eliminated and didn't manage to eliminate anyone) to 57 (for Brock, who entered 29th and won, eliminating 4 in the process). And I think those scores would have been much closer then what we used to representing the actual results of the rumble.
But our scoring perspectives have changed a bit since then, Here are what I perceive to be the relevant issues.
1. No wrestler should get 0 points for being in a PPV match. At the time we were still in the process of debating negative showings for a loss. We soon changed that and more recently closed the gap even further between winners and losers for Season 2.
2. Brock Lesner had a basicly low score for a RR champion, considering how many points a winner who had an enterance rank near the middle or begining of the event could score. Imagine if he'd entered 10th and eliminated 8 (reasonable, I think) and won:
12 + 30 - 10 + 8 + 40 = 80.
Do we want even a thrilling a RR victory to be worth that much? Remember, the Rumble was not the main event last year.
A good tweak might be to give RR participants +25, instead of the +12 that regular PPV matches normally get, and also lower the win bonus to +20.
So here is my proposal:
25 + (elimination rank [winning = 50]) - (entrance rank) + (# of wrestlers eliminated)
(remember the 'PPV Match + 12' would not apply, unless the wrestler is in another match)
Under this system, Goldust got 13 points for an appearance and Brock got 50, which like I said, is for what should be a reletively low scoring RR victory. The wrestler getting a push in my example above would still get a nice 73. |
| 1 | GoatLocker
Sustainer
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Sat, Sep 06, 2003, 18:16
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I like it with the 25.
Cliff
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| 2 | Mattinglyinthehall
Sustainer
ID: 217351118
Sun, Sep 07, 2003, 09:01
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BUTT
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| 3 | Mike D
Donor
ID: 23715270
Sun, Sep 07, 2003, 09:59
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Sounds good.
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| 4 | Tree
Donor
ID: 4380711
Sun, Sep 07, 2003, 14:01
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sounds good to me...i'm easy...i think that's why my girlfriend dates me.
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| 5 | Farn
Sustainer
ID: 7822711
Sun, Sep 07, 2003, 19:57
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sounds good to me as well.
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| 6 | Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 217351118
Thu, Jan 08, 2004, 22:19
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BUTT
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| 7 | mIST
ID: 5351150
Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 10:14
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Fine for me.
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| 8 | Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 217351118
Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 20:30
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BUTT
That's six votes to switch from the format we used last year to this one. Not sure if that's enough to change it, but I hope so because the Rumble is tomorrow.
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| 9 | wiggs
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ID: 4991311
Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 01:10
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good with me.
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