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LillaThrillaPosted on 07/07/07 at 23:36:59

Do you have any particular methodology or a formula for decieding what to set a wrestler's work rate at when creating them?
91Posted on 07/08/07 at 00:08:00

I know that there's supposed to be several factors that come into it, but work rate, as far as I can tell, is the most important stat when it comes to match ratings, and I've found that typically two workers of a work rate of 60 will, on average, have around a DUD. If we conversely say that two workers of 100 are easily capable, with enough time and the right conditions, of getting *****, it can be a case of just working off that.

Mind you, that's hardly an exact science. Actually a couple of years I spent a couple of hours narrowing it down a little. Creating two wrestlers with otherwise fairly good stats (decent, if not outstanding, charisma and stamina and what have you, and a typical moveset), I came up with this...

*****            97-100
****3/4                      93-96
****1/2                      89-92
****1/4                      88
****            87
***3/4            84-86
***1/2            81-83
***1/4            80
***            79
**3/4            78
**1/2            77
**1/4            76
**            75
*3/4            74
*1/2            73
*1/4            72
*            70-71
3/4*            68-69
1/2*            66-67
1/4*            63-65
DUD            60-62

You'd have to be a particularly poor worker (we're talking El Gigant, Zeus, Evad Sullivan bad) to drop below 60. So then it's a matter of taking the match rating you'd typically perceive a wrestler getting (using your own personal opinions on matches and personal ways of rating matches, of course) and going from there.

Obviously even the greats don't go around having ***** matches every week, that's just a case of weighing up who he's facing and what have you. Actually you have to weigh up lots of things doing this since you have to bear in mind that someone might be typically having better matches than other people not because he's a better worker but because he's regularly facing better opponents, getting longer matches with more favourable booking or maybe he's just so darned charismatic that his wrestling might suck but you still find yourself entertained, so you have to use a lot of liberties.

Obviously that table isn't perfect by any means, not even close, since there are other things to consider but when going for realistic match ratings (based on how I myself usually rate matches at least), that's generally what I go off.

And before anyone says that TNM uses the work rate figure to calculate other things, I don't care.