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Originally Posted by barkflex
Jade, just something I'm curious about, does your scheduler allow for more than three fights between any two boxers if it makes sense ranking wise?
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Wasn't aware that any scheduler had a cap on bouts between two fighters, but no their is no limit. I suppose its theoretically possible to have a dozen or more bouts between any two during a career, but that would be INCREDIBLY unlikely.
To answer the question, yes, in the unlikely event that it makes logical, practical sense for two fighters to have three or more bouts, this scheduler will allow it. One possible scenario I can envision is if the list of currently active fighters is particularly weak with the exception of two unusually good fighters at the top, they could foreseeably occupy the championship and the number one ranking for a long period of time. This would be unusual though.
A bit of info on the HOW of the scheduler:
It operates as closely as I could possibly make it to reality. The very first thing it does is establish whether or not a fighter is 'Active' at a given time. The World Champion can be active as much as once every two or three months, or as little as once a year. This filters all the way down to the Journeyman who are active as much as every month, and very rarely spend more then two or three months on the bench.
So, out of your list of current universe fighters (lets say sixty just to use a random number) you may have say, 20-30 of those active, or ten to fifteen bouts.
The World Champion, if active, MUST fight a ranked contender if their are any available (I rank 15 fighters, but again I can make this adjustable in later versions). Approximately half the time he fights he will make that the number one available contender.
Contenders, as in real life will fight amongst themselves to improve their ranking, and some will fight nobodies and journeymen to pad their records. However, when they do that they are penalised in the rankings (took me ages to figure that one out).
Newcomers and Prospects will generally busy themselves fighting stiffs (as real fighters do to gain experience) but the longer their career goes the more likely they are to step up.
I've been trying it myself over the last couple of days, and the scheduler does appear to be very realistic - however part of the reason I posted the file was to get the opinions of others - so have at it!
