How do you book?

[Daffanka]

Do you book realistically or do you sort of game the system?

 

Let's say Neil Napier came off a loss but is still popular enough to make a great main event with your champion, and you have absolutely no other fights that would make above very poor. Would you put him against the champ knowing he's undeserving, or would you book some other awful fight and give up money in the name of realism?

 

Obviously this doesn't apply later in the game when your PPVs and merchandise make you money like nothing, but early on when you're struggling a bit?

[TheKenwyne]

To be honest, the main event rarely majorly effects the attendance. It DOES effect your promotions popularity, and so the effect will likely hit your next event.

 

Personally, I would go awful fight. You never see fighters coming of losses getting title fights IRL, and that's what's swinging it for me.

[brashleyholland]

You never see fighters coming of losses getting title fights IRL, and that's what's swinging it for me.

 

This. I can only think of two occasions that this has taken place in the modern era of the UFC, Justin Eilers and BJ Penn, and in Penn's case he was comming off a loss in a different division.

 

Takanori Gomi lost a non-title match to Marcus Aurelio and went on to fight in a main event in Pride. He fought David Baron in *another* non-title bout before winning a rematch with Aurelio with the title on the line. Lovely bit of matchmaking there. Oh, between his bouts with Gomi, Aurelio lost to another contender in Mitsuhiro Ishida. Despite beating the man who beat the champ, Ishida had to fight twice more against irrelevent fighters before he got his title shot. Wow.

 

Also, Wanderlei Silva lost a non-title bout Ricardo Arona in the 2005 GP, before defending his title in a co-main event rematch in his next fight.

 

So yeah, it's pretty rare, and usually very, very stupid when it happens in real life

[LoNdOn]

Yep, I would always choose the guy that is more deserving

[Daffanka]

I'm still on my first game so that's why I thought I'd ask. Once I learned that occasional very poor ratings were inevitable I stopped doing it.

 

It's pretty cool how quickly it went from just a sim to "Well Silva's beaten two good guys but hasn't proven himself against top level talent guess I'll book him against the former number one contender Toadspew as a chance to prove himself and a bounceback fight against established talent for Toadspew"

[Blackman]

The situation you describe is unreal imo. There must be someone who is more deserving in your promotion, or you're not doing a good job hiring enough people to your promotion. Let someone challenge who has a streak of wins, or at least one win and high enough reputation.

 

And what the hell... Someone must've beaten Napier, right? So give him the shot? Why wouldn't you... If that guy's still recuperating, have Napier fight someone else in the main event, risking an 'awful' show, but honestly, there's nothing wrong with an 'awful' show really.

 

take ufc 108, with a truly sucky card. people still buy it, apparently, and it's a great way to boost talent.

[Daffanka]

It was a hypothetical situation taken to the extreme to illustrate a problem, I've never been quite that bad when hiring and developing talent.

 

And I saw Napier's name on the p4p list, he's still undefeated and I don't have him in my promotion

[jjones1087]

My booking style is very fool proof in my opinion.. When I start a game I look at the Roster Analysis page and write down all the talent in each division who make the top two lists.

 

Then I book as follows..

 

Main Event - Lightweight Champion vs. Number One contender in my rankings.

Co-Main Event - Welterweight from my list vs. Another Welterweight from my list

Third match - Middleweight from my list vs. can

Then from here on I go Light Heavyweight, Heavyweight, back to Lightweight and keep that rotation up building my future stars who aren't on the lists.

 

Then the next show I start with Welterweight as the main event and continue down.

 

It's a solid rotation and usually does a good job keeping a title match in the main event. If for some reason the champion due up isn't read, i have a four man tournament in place to build a star not from the list, and use my list to make the first three matches to compensate.

 

There's other little ins and outs to go along, but that's the jist, it does a great job at putting matches in the right spot, and a good job at producing talent. I see great results.

[Blackman]

It can't be that this is always your routine? Doesn't the game force you to change it a couple of times due to injuries & recuperation times?

[LoNdOn]

My booking style is very fool proof in my opinion.. When I start a game I look at the Roster Analysis page and write down all the talent in each division who make the top two lists.

 

Then I book as follows..

 

Main Event - Lightweight Champion vs. Number One contender in my rankings.

Co-Main Event - Welterweight from my list vs. Another Welterweight from my list

Third match - Middleweight from my list vs. can

Then from here on I go Light Heavyweight, Heavyweight, back to Lightweight and keep that rotation up building my future stars who aren't on the lists.

 

Then the next show I start with Welterweight as the main event and continue down.

 

It's a solid rotation and usually does a good job keeping a title match in the main event. If for some reason the champion due up isn't read, i have a four man tournament in place to build a star not from the list, and use my list to make the first three matches to compensate.

 

There's other little ins and outs to go along, but that's the jist, it does a great job at putting matches in the right spot, and a good job at producing talent. I see great results.

 

I pretty much do the same