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Here's another old idea that was kicked around by the Trunzos, however briefly. It messes with the numbers much more than the one-on-one tailored ratings idea, which I agree is grand.
The other idea was to rate certain fighter's salient aspects in bolder relief. Tommy Hearns was one considered. This was back in the daze he was knocking everybody (but Leonard) out early and if a fighter got through those lethal early rounds, he had both a chance to go long and knock Tommy around a bit. The way it would work in TB was Tommy would get an extreme HP early, say a 13 or 14. That would last a couple of rounds, then quickly diminish. He would always have a punch but from the midpoint on, more like a 5 or 6.
Ali was another, in the time of his career when he often did nothing for the first 2-4 rounds against lesser caliber opponents. Kind of a mandatory Cover Up. Then he could fight using his ratings. This would not apply to matches against the monsters he'd face in between the cupcakes.
The idea would take programming and it was never tried out, though you could easily do it with the cards.
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