MAFIABOSS Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 im lil in the dark bout bookin matches in mma2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoNdOn Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Would love to offer help, but you need to be more specific with your question. Do you mean you do not know how to book matches, or do you want to know by what criteria you should select match ups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAFIABOSS Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 matches help like every match ii book rate d- i wanna no how can i book a a rated match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weinberg Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Your matches are rated D- ? So you are using TEW right? Wouldn't WMMA2 say poor rather than D-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAFIABOSS Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 matches help poor i mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoNdOn Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Various aspects effect a match rating. Popularity of a fighter, the winning streak, title on the line. All these effect how the match will be perceived by the audience. If you are a smaller MMA company like SIGMA for example, it will be more challenging initially as these things take time. I suggest that you keep plugging away at it. There is a learning curve in knowing how to book a good event with popular fights. Keep testing different things and you will get the hang of it. Hope I helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weinberg Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I believe what london said affect the overall rating for the show; not the individual fight rating. What I think affect a particular fight rating is the style and quality of the fighters. I think one fighter destroying a weaker one in under a minute will usually get a fantastic rating while a 3-round match decided by the judges will usually get a poor/decent rating... In fact very often a title match between my two best guys will get a poor/decent fight rating but excellent/fantastic overall card rating. On the other hand, my two best guys in seperate fights destroying two weaker guys will get two excellent/fantastic fight rating but poor/decent overall card rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriscrowing Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I partially agree with Weinberg. Any match which ends quickly will usually get a great/fantastic match rating, so if one of your top guys is mauling a can, or even one unknown subbing another in 30 seconds, then the match will be entertaining. Conversely, two well matched, skilled and popular guys going for lay n pray, will come out as an awful match. However, an all-action match that goes to a decision will get a decent rating. As a rule I ignore the fight ratings entirely, as it's name value that gets PPV buys and only rarely will title matches get a very good rating, unless on guy proves to be out of his depth (which I'll admit, in retrospect happens quite a lot in my promotion - I have some very entrenched champions...) Perhaps a guideline for booking cards should be - Main events, pit the biggest name value fighters you can against each other, title matches and undefeated streaks add to the buy rate. Rest of Main Card: Place guys on the up, with a winning streak against guys with a few losses who seem to be 'losing it' - call them 'gatekeeper' matches. You'll soon see the guys who are meant to be main event contenders getting some 'excellent' rated squashes in and adding a W to their record. However, if some guys end up being taken to decision by the gatekeepers, or even lose, then it's back to the prelims for you... Preliminary card: For rookies and anyone with a regional level name value. I tend to give rookies their first few matches against guys in their 30s who have a losing streak, then they get sorted into Can Rookies and Win rookies. Can rookies basically exist to put other guys over, just the like the Can Veterans. Rookies who string a few wins together get to stay fighting cans until their popularity or a ridicuous win streak eventually wins them a shot on the main card. This should maintain a good balance between buy rates and high match ratings, also allowing you an almost pro-wrestling level of control over your fighters' pushes, at least until they are in the main event, by which point it doesn't matter. Of course, sometimes your carefully built 15-0 streak gets ruined by a total can, but thats the joy of MMA, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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