[Non Compos Mentis]

Aging, Retirement & Comeback Rules

These are preliminary, since my universe hasn't progressed far enough to determine how well this operates. Changes will most likely be made in the future.

AGING

1-10 fights for Beginning
1-20 fights for Pre-Prime
1-60 fights for Prime
1-5 fights for Post-Prime
1-5 fights for End

This will create a range of 5-100 fights before a boxer retires, with an average of 52.5 fights for a career.

RETIREMENT

When a fighter passes from End to Retired, they are moved from whatever group they are currently in, to the Retired - Temp Group. The date when they retired is updated in their record.

Every four weeks (in synch with when rankings are published) a check is made to determine if a fighter attempts a comeback or retires permanently.

01-05 Comeback
06-95 No change
96-00 Retires permanently and is moved to the Retired Group.

If a fighter has less than 30 total bouts, they cannot be retired permamently.

COMEBACK

The career stage a fighter is set to when they decide to re-enter the boxing scene is determined by how many fights they participated.

Prime = (100-fights)/4
Post-Prime = (100-fights)/2
End = 100 - Prime - Post-Prime

Result of numbers divided is always rounded down.

For example:

5 fights:
01-23 Prime
24-70 Post-Prime
71-00 End

50 fights:
01-12 Prime
13-37 Post-Prime
38-00 End

75 fights:
01-06 Prime
07-18 Post-Prime
19-00 End

There are no limits to the number of times a boxer may make a comeback, but it becomes more difficult for them to be competitive with each fight tacked onto their record.

The number of Perf Pts a fighter has is adjusted downwards by 10 points for each week spent in "retirement" to a floor of 1000 (the number of points all new fighters start at). This is why the date of retirement is important to update in the fighter's record.