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Gunsmoke · 07-09-2005, 12:20 AM

Introduction

The World Wide Boxing Union Quarterly reports on the goings on in the world of the WWBU. The WWBU Quarterly will be published in January (reporting on Oct-Dec of the previous year), April (Jan-Mar), July (Apr-Jun) and October (Jul-Sep). It will cover all of the important fights of the previous three months and list the official WWBU rankings at the close of the quarter.

The World Wide Boxing Union was formed in 1896 and the first fight card was run under it’s auspices in January 1897. There are eight weight divisions officially recognized by the WWBU, Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight (or Cruiserweight as the British call them), Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight and Flyweight. The WWBU must sanction all bouts and all fights must take place in a sanctioned venue. The city of Gateway, in the mid-west portion of the US, has been the hub of the WWBU activities so far, earning the sobriquet of “Fight Town”.

The Heavyweight division was the first to start activity in 1897; the Middleweights joined the fun in 1998, with the Light Heavyweights, Welters and Lightweights starting in 1899. The final three weight classes did not start till 1900. A fighter will only be ranked after 15 wins or 25 fights, whichever comes first. This allows the WWBU ranking committee a decent body of work in which a fighter’s quality can be fairly judged.

The WWBU World Title will become active in a weight class once there are eight ranked fighters. The top four fighters will then take part in an elimination tournament with the number one ranked fighter taking on the ranked four fighters and the second facing the third. The two winners will then fight for the title.

WWBU fights are judged by three ringside judges, who score each round of the action using the 10-point must system. A fighter cannot be saved by the bell if knocked down at the end of any round and only the in ring referee may stop the bout. The WWBU restricts the lengths of bouts a fighter may participate in based on the fighter’s level of experience. A fighter only fight 4 round bouts if they have less the 2 bouts experience, those with less than 5 bouts can only fight in six rounders. For fighters with less than 10 fights experience the fighter is limited to eight round contests, once the fighter has over 10 bouts they are able to participate in any length of bout.

Behind the Scenes

The WWBU is a universe using mixed eras of fighters. The fighters are randomly added to the universe based on formulas and a slight random factor, which should ensure that I have enough fighters in each class to last 100 years of universe. The WWBU grew from a HW only universe to one that covers all eight traditional weight classes in an organic manner (i.e. I decided to slowly up the weight classes I was covering as I went) so some of the weight classes, read LHW and MW, are a bit funky. Here are the WWBU weight classes:
 WWBU HW = HW
 WWBU LHW = CW, LHW
 WWBU MW = SMW, MW, JMW
 WWBU WW = WW, JWW
 WWBU LW = LW, JLW
 WWBU FW = FW, JFW
 WWBU BW = BW, JBW
 WWBU FLY = FLY, JFLY

The WWBU is running using variations on Cube’s scheduling and aging rules. There are four groups of fighters in my universe:
 World
 Prospects
 Beginners
 Tomato Cans

The World group represents the Top 20 ranked fighters in a particular weight class. Prospects are veteran fighters who aren’t good enough for the World group and unranked prospects that are taking the next step in their careers. The Beginners group is for fighters taking part in their first few bouts, a fighter in the Beginning group has a (Wins – 5) * 10% chance of moving on to the Prospects group. If a fighter takes a loss in the Prospects group then the same check is undertaken to see if they remain in the Prospects group or fall back to the Beginners group. The Tomato Cans group is used for fictional record builders.

Fighters in the Beginners group will only be matched with fighters in the Tomato Cans group. Fighters in the Prospects group will fight either another Prospect or a Tomato Can. Fighters in the World group will only fight other fighters in the World group, the only exception to this is prior to the world title becoming active in a weight class World group fighters may fight Tomato Cans.

Fighters will start out with a Draw Power of one. As the fighter’s career progresses, the fighter will gain drawing power based on his Draw Power rating in Title Bout, as well as his career stage and achievements.

Fighter aging is handled separately from the Career stages in Title Bout. The Fighters start in the Beginners stage and after 5 fights progress to Pre-Prime. Once the fighter has fought 20 bouts he moves onto the Prime stage and earns 100 career points. The career points are calculated in the same manner as Cube was doing it.

However the fighters will have aging checks at 80 points, 60, 50, 40 and 20. An Aging Check is a percentage chance (based on the fighter’s career points) that the fighter is affected by aging; the check is passed if the number generated is below the fighter’s current Career Points. If the aging check is failed then the fighter is affected by an aging effect. An aging effect will affect random attributes and will reduce a fighter’s capabilities. When a fighter reaches 30 career points remaining, the Post-Prime aging effect is applied and when the fighter falls to 10 points remaining the End stage effects will be applied.

Feel free to ask for further details about any of these systems if you want to know more.

It takes me a while to process each month. Lately it has been taking me somewhere around a week to complete a month’s worth of fights depending what else is going on in my life, so there will be Quarterly update every few weeks.

07-09-2005, 12:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
Gunsmoke All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 993 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8x in 5 posts	World Wide Boxing Union Introduction The World Wide Boxing Union Quarterly reports on the goings on in the world of the WWBU. The WWBU Quarterly will be published in January (reporting on Oct-Dec of the previous year), April (Jan-Mar), July (Apr-Jun) and October (Jul-Sep). It will cover all of the important fights of the previous three months and list the official WWBU rankings at the close of the quarter. The World Wide Boxing Union was formed in 1896 and the first fight card was run under it’s auspices in January 1897. There are eight weight divisions officially recognized by the WWBU, Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight (or Cruiserweight as the British call them), Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight and Flyweight. The WWBU must sanction all bouts and all fights must take place in a sanctioned venue. The city of Gateway, in the mid-west portion of the US, has been the hub of the WWBU activities so far, earning the sobriquet of “Fight Town”. The Heavyweight division was the first to start activity in 1897; the Middleweights joined the fun in 1998, with the Light Heavyweights, Welters and Lightweights starting in 1899. The final three weight classes did not start till 1900. A fighter will only be ranked after 15 wins or 25 fights, whichever comes first. This allows the WWBU ranking committee a decent body of work in which a fighter’s quality can be fairly judged. The WWBU World Title will become active in a weight class once there are eight ranked fighters. The top four fighters will then take part in an elimination tournament with the number one ranked fighter taking on the ranked four fighters and the second facing the third. The two winners will then fight for the title. WWBU fights are judged by three ringside judges, who score each round of the action using the 10-point must system. A fighter cannot be saved by the bell if knocked down at the end of any round and only the in ring referee may stop the bout. The WWBU restricts the lengths of bouts a fighter may participate in based on the fighter’s level of experience. A fighter only fight 4 round bouts if they have less the 2 bouts experience, those with less than 5 bouts can only fight in six rounders. For fighters with less than 10 fights experience the fighter is limited to eight round contests, once the fighter has over 10 bouts they are able to participate in any length of bout. Behind the Scenes The WWBU is a universe using mixed eras of fighters. The fighters are randomly added to the universe based on formulas and a slight random factor, which should ensure that I have enough fighters in each class to last 100 years of universe. The WWBU grew from a HW only universe to one that covers all eight traditional weight classes in an organic manner (i.e. I decided to slowly up the weight classes I was covering as I went) so some of the weight classes, read LHW and MW, are a bit funky. Here are the WWBU weight classes:  WWBU HW = HW  WWBU LHW = CW, LHW  WWBU MW = SMW, MW, JMW  WWBU WW = WW, JWW  WWBU LW = LW, JLW  WWBU FW = FW, JFW  WWBU BW = BW, JBW  WWBU FLY = FLY, JFLY The WWBU is running using variations on Cube’s scheduling and aging rules. There are four groups of fighters in my universe:  World  Prospects  Beginners  Tomato Cans The World group represents the Top 20 ranked fighters in a particular weight class. Prospects are veteran fighters who aren’t good enough for the World group and unranked prospects that are taking the next step in their careers. The Beginners group is for fighters taking part in their first few bouts, a fighter in the Beginning group has a (Wins – 5) * 10% chance of moving on to the Prospects group. If a fighter takes a loss in the Prospects group then the same check is undertaken to see if they remain in the Prospects group or fall back to the Beginners group. The Tomato Cans group is used for fictional record builders. Fighters in the Beginners group will only be matched with fighters in the Tomato Cans group. Fighters in the Prospects group will fight either another Prospect or a Tomato Can. Fighters in the World group will only fight other fighters in the World group, the only exception to this is prior to the world title becoming active in a weight class World group fighters may fight Tomato Cans. Fighters will start out with a Draw Power of one. As the fighter’s career progresses, the fighter will gain drawing power based on his Draw Power rating in Title Bout, as well as his career stage and achievements. Fighter aging is handled separately from the Career stages in Title Bout. The Fighters start in the Beginners stage and after 5 fights progress to Pre-Prime. Once the fighter has fought 20 bouts he moves onto the Prime stage and earns 100 career points. The career points are calculated in the same manner as Cube was doing it. However the fighters will have aging checks at 80 points, 60, 50, 40 and 20. An Aging Check is a percentage chance (based on the fighter’s career points) that the fighter is affected by aging; the check is passed if the number generated is below the fighter’s current Career Points. If the aging check is failed then the fighter is affected by an aging effect. An aging effect will affect random attributes and will reduce a fighter’s capabilities. When a fighter reaches 30 career points remaining, the Post-Prime aging effect is applied and when the fighter falls to 10 points remaining the End stage effects will be applied. Feel free to ask for further details about any of these systems if you want to know more. It takes me a while to process each month. Lately it has been taking me somewhere around a week to complete a month’s worth of fights depending what else is going on in my life, so there will be Quarterly update every few weeks.