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Originally Posted by wildhawke11
Don
Please forgive my lack of good manners and welcome to our little home.
Jim
It would be a pointless exercise for me to give anyone a fighters i had in my game.
Because unless he had the same fighters rated in his game as all mine. My ratings would be out of place in his game. Why, simply because my new rated fighters would have been tested against my other rated fighters in my game and not his. The same rule applies to any Tom Dick or Harry who puts fighters out he has rated. Anyway you have to know quite a bit about a fighter before you get his ratings right. Boxrec will tell you the result of a fight but some fighters lost fights because of conditions out of there control, this of course you will never learn on Boxrec
Ray Robinson had many little tricks such as delaying fights to throw his opponent off his game. You wont learn this on Boxrec. Jim i don't mean you and some others on here. But often some guys i can tell by there ratings they know very little about the fighter they have just rated they go purely on a result not taking the conditions that were attached to the contract when drawn up. Or the beaten fighter was in no way at his best or at least under par for a particular fight. Or he had to agree with a small ring to get a shot at the champion when in fact he was a skilled boxer who needed at least a medium size ring to be in with a fair shot of winning the fight. Personally i would like to see a standard size ring be the rule for all fighters as ring size can make such a big difference but i know you know this Jim.
Anyway at the moment i have no well rated fighters of my own because silly me never made a back up of my old fighters that i had rated before my hard drive gave up the ghost a few years back.
PS Jim i hope this posting makes a little sense as i had a bad night and am really very tired. So please forgive if it seems a little hard to grasp.
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Hey Danny,
Well, it's time to get back to doing those ratings
. I've been re-rating fighters since '79. It's always a challenge to get all the fighters on the same page. If you post a few fighters, along with the logic behind the rating, you'll inspire some people to use that some train of logic in adjusting their own ratings. I have a thread over on the MOD's board where I've done this and it seems to appeal to the "purist" as well as the "Gimme More Fighters" crowd.
The Ratings of the Day Council Thread is another thread that uses the same type of "logic" in rating that fighters.
I think you should just jump back in and get to it.
Hey, I'll admit, I'm the type to say on occasion - ready, fire... aim!
It's sort of funny listening to you talk about TB. You've been playing it for so long... and yet, it sounds like you're talking about a wayward son at times. He's not focused like it needs to be... you hope he learns his lesson... but if he knocks on the door at 3:00 a.m., you'll be the first person to the door!
If Title Bout were my "kid," I'd tell him he needs to get his graphics straight if he wants to go anywhere in this world.
