Replay starting in 1940/45
New computer, new universe. I had pretty good succes with my heavyweights universe that ended 6 months or so ago, so i decided to do the same thing, only involving all the weightclasses and starting 20 years earlier because i did not wanna start at the exact same point in time, i did not want to go back to where are all the fighters are just names to me, and i just couldnt start a universe with all the weightclasses and leave out the great Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pep or Rocky Marciano.
I started by bringing in all fighters debuting from 1940 to 1945 and then a massive number of zero's to pad the records as i like to have lots of undefeateds. Nothing greater than a battle of undefeated prospects to burst a young fighter onto the world scene.
The coverage starts in January, 1949, with Willie Pep so far being the most impressive guy p4p, although i am yet to bring in the first world championship fights. This will happen in the beginning of 1950, with 8 man tourneys in all divisions.
I have the fighters split in four groups:
Beginning (1116 fighters): All fighters at Beginning career stage, all Pre-Prime or End fighters with a negative record and all Prime or Post-Prime fighters ranked in the bottom 20 %.
This group is massively overpopulated at this point due to a minimum of fighters having made it to Prime.
These guys fight 6 round-fights.
Club (797 fighters): All at Pre-Prime or End with a positive record and those who are not in the best 40 % or the worst 20 % of the rankings.
Club fighters compete in 8 rounders.
Main (39 fighters): The top 40 % of the rankings, required that they have either moved to Prime or have fought at least 25 bouts.
10 round-fights only.
World Class (none yet): Handpicked by me, all top 5 fighters, most top 10 fighters and then the superstars. I pick fights for these guys.
10 or 12 rounders.
I will auto-schedule fights for each group and then run through to pick out the fights i wanna put on the fight cards for that month. This is done for Club and Main.
There will be some movement from one weight-class to another when it seems logical. If one is available i will use the rating in the database, if not i will use the weight class change thing someone made in these forums.
There will be a quick run through of the weightclasses and then the action will start with fight cards for January, 1949.