[bigMatt]

BONNER SPRINGS, KS - Out of the ashes of the recently defunct UoLBA, I am proud to announce today the formation of the Phoenix Boxing Federation (PBF).

The PBF begins in the year 1890, and is open to heavyweights only in its inaugural season. The PBF will add a Middleweight division in 1891, a Lightweight division in 1892, and various other divisions in subsequent years, at the discretion of the governing committee.

The PBF will feel very familiar to fans of the UoLBA, in that the ruleset, timelining and matchmaking mechanisms vary only slightly from its predecessor. Outlined below are the details of this new universe.

INTRO
All HW fighters are eligible, whether retired or active. Every fighter that could be found was collected from the 4 corners of the internet - specifically from within the initial game database, Cornerworks and OOTP sites.

Fighters have been timelined, beginning with the year 1890. A Fighter has a 50% chance of starting his career in the year he historically began (pre-1890 fighters rounded up to 1890, post 2000 rounded down to 2000). Each fighter has a 50% chance of starting his career in a different year, randomized from 1890-2000.

This is done in a spreadsheet filtered with only the present year visible.

- Fighters are hidden from view until the beginning of a PBF year. For example, if Joe Louis has been "time machined" to 1974 using the spreadsheet randomizer, he will not be visible until after all fighters are completed in December of 1973. This dimension is critical to the excitement and anticipation of the PBF.

Fighters enter the league in January of the designated year. Each newly-added fighter is in the BEGINNING phase of his career when he enters, and completes 12 fights against tomato cans prior to the beginning of the PBF fight season. (These initial fights are considered as being completed some time prior to PBF league entry. Consequently, a new fighter starts fresh in the league with the 12 fight record he compiled, but no residual delays from previous fight results). The TBCB aging system will be used to regulate each players career, with the following formula in place:

BEGINNING: 5-8
PRE-PRIME: 9-17
PRIME: 10-28
POST-PRIME: 10-18
END: 10-15

In this, the inaugural year of the PBF, 70 heavyweight fighters from around the globe have successfully gained membership, all eager to climb their way to the top of the PBF universe.


SCHEDULING AND ACTIVITY
In the first year, three main fight cards will be scheduled per month. If more than 18 fights are required in a given month, a 4th venue will be selected. If less than 18 fights are scheduled, then fight cards will be adjusted accordingly. If there are an odd number of fighters called on to fight, an additional fighter will be randomly selected to fill the card. If there still remains an odd number of fights, tomato can fighters will be randomly selected to fill the card.

Each month, boxers are checked for availability. The chance that they fight is based on the TB Conditioning rating as follows:

1 (Near Perfect) 70%
2 (Well Conditioned) 70%
3 (Borderline Condition) 60%
4 (Weight Problems) 60%
5 (Party Animal) 60%
6 (Aging Inconsistent Vet) 50%
7 (Inactive) 40%
8 (Fights too Frequently) 80%
9 (Headcase) 70%
10 (Malcontent) 65%
11 (Physical and Mental Problems) 50%
12 (Seldom if Ever Trains) 70%

Activity in the previous month also impacts fighter availability:
Fought last month – minus 25% from above
Fought last two months in a row – minus 50% from above
Fought last three months in a row – cannot fight (mandatory time off)

Additional Adjustments based on damage suffered in previous fight:

1 cut – month off
1 knockdown – month off
2 cuts last fight –month off, 20% off following month chance
2 knockdowns – month off, 30% off following month chance
1 knockout – 1 month off, 50% off second month chance
1 tko – 2 months off

Adjustments based on inactivity (not due to injury,KD,TKO, KO or mandatory time off):
Inactive 1 month – increase chance by 10%
Inactive 2 months – increase chance by 25%
Inactive 3 months – increase chance by 50%
Inactive 4 months – increase chance by 100%
Inactive 5 months - must fight

MATCHMAKING / DESIRABILITY

After determining availability, all fighters deemed available are given a matchmaking value based on the following formula. The resulting number is a fighter’s desireability factor. This number must be at least 1.

Draw Power, 2 points for each point.

Current Ranking, Champ is 25, Ranks 2-20 get inverse points (2 gets 19, 3 gets 18, etc.)

1 Point for every win over .500 – max 20.

10 additional points if fighter is undefeated.

Points are totaled. Each player gets a roll value based on his desirability factor divided by the total matchmaking points for all fighters in that month. So in other words, if John Dwyer is active with a desirability factor of 40, and the combined total is 400, John Dwyer would be assigned 10 of the total rolls available on a scale of 100, or 10% of the total fight possibilities.

A fight card spreadsheet is created for the given fight month. 18 sets of cells are set up with a formula to display random numbers between 1-100. These numbers correlate to the numbers that are assigned to the available fighters. So, as in the example above, John Dwyer has a number between 1 and 10, and the random number is 6, Dwyer is the fighter assigned to the fight. After the 18 bouts are preliminarily assigned, each fighter with multiple pairings chooses his preferred fight. This happens only if he is the more desirable fighter in that match. If not, he will not have this choice. As slots open from this selection process, new random numbers will be generated to fill them. This continues until all matches for that month are full. This continues until all fighters are scheduled.


VENUES
Venues will be at random, based on what is selected each month by the TBCB game. Historical only venues will be used until 1960, after which the PBF will switch to Current venues.


RANKINGS and DETERMINING THE CHAMPION
The PBF will rely on Title Bout game to assign rankings.

The month of June of 1890 will be devoted to a 16 man tourney to determine initial world champion. This tourney will be comprised of fighters ranked 1-16 in the game. By this time, each fighter will have completed a 12-fight early phase against tomato cans, and will have approximately 15 total fights under his belt.

Once a champ, a fighters likelihood of fighting is diminished by 1/2 while he remains champion. From this point on, any fight assigned to the champ is considered a title fight. The champ must fight at least 3 title bouts in a 12 month period. All bouts must be against top-ten ranked fighters; one bout must be against a top-five opponent, and one fight is a mandatory match against the #1 challenger. The champ can schedule any fights in any order, but if he does not meet the #1 challenger within this 12 month period, his belt is forfeited, and the #1 challenger is crowned by default.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Lee Skye Random Events schedule is part of the PBF to provide additional intrigue to the universe.