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Originally Posted by gocubsgo

I think setting the initial records would mess with the whole ranking.

After spending a good amount of time with this last night it is amazing how well this works. If only this worked within the game. A couple of things that would make this even better.

1. Being able to have multiple titles

I agree, i'll work on this. Seems pretty straightforward though. Question though, do you want regional titles? Multiple world titles? Both? And how do you want the game to react to that? Ie. Is that fighter then ranked higher? Fight more often etc etc.

Originally Posted by gocubsgo

2. Being able to export the schedule to the scheduler within the game.

I wish. Unfortunately you'd have to go back to the game creator for that

Originally Posted by gocubsgo

3. Being able to have your fighters scheduled against TCs initially.

Now this the game DOES do, but perhaps a little differently then you may have experienced in the past. The schedule for a "newcomer" basically works like this:

1) Determine whether the fighter is active
2) Roughly 80-90% chance of fighting a journeyman, OCCASIONALLY target another newcomer (seemed pretty realistic to me).
3) Target a random active journeyman.

Now the trick here is this, the scheduler works top down. And by that what I mean is that the World Champions opponent is allocated first, then the contenders, then the veterans etc etc. So what that potentially means is that the only available opponent for a ranked fighter MAY be a newcomer. You will notice that this happens more frequently with a lower amount of fighters. Once you pass the 25-30 active fighters it happens very infrequently. Another thing to watch out for is the number of Journeyman fighters available. Its a good idea that your 'Pool' contain about a 3:1 ratio of TCs before you start play. This is because they will fight more frequently, and retire faster then their better counterparts.

I'd like to point out that I deliberately made it like this, because I want Muhammad Ali and Joe Blogs the TC to start on EXACTLY the same terms. Suspend what you know to be true, because when they start their careers you don't 'KNOW' which is better then the other. The results they generate will determine that. In the universe I am running now I had some very interesting results:

- Danny Williams was unlucky enough to start his career early in the game, and was matched against superior fighters. As a result he quickly became a Journeyman. As the universe expanded, he was matched against poorer and poorer fighters and he dug himself out of a hole.

- Trevor Berbick dodged a bullet and was matched against absolute hacks right up until his 15th, 16th fight. So even though I know that Jeffries was superior, he lagged behind in the rankings until they finally fought each other. Very realistic! Think Primo Carnera.......

Originally Posted by gocubsgo

Right now it is a little cumbersome to generate a schedule and then go back into the game and set these fights up, sim them and then come back to the sheet and record your decisions. I am using 40 fighters right now so it is not terrible but i can see this being a bit of a pain with 200-300 fighters, but i will agree this program rocks.

Yes I found the same, but until such a time that the game can support an import of a schedule this is the limit we work with.