u/lucibelloj

A few weeks back I posted this (maineventer.com)... an 82-0 style game where you spin a random promotion and year, draft a real match into each slot of a 5-match card (main event, singles, tag, women's, multi-man), and it scores your show on actual cagematch user ratings. Book five classics and you get a "Show of the Year."

I did not expect the response it got, and honestly the comments turned into a to-do list. So I kept working on it. Figured I owed you all a proper recap, because basically every change came from feedback in that thread.

First, the stuff you caught/broke:

• Within about a day, some of you figured out you could drag a match back and forth between the Main Event and Singles slots to keep spinning forever and dodge the re-roll limit. Patched that.
• Cage matches, ladder matches, TLC, they were all getting thrown in the "Multi-Man" slot even when they were just 1-on-1. It now actually counts the wrestlers in the match. Six-man tags go to Tag where they belong.
• You could book the same guy twice on one card. Fixed, one appearance per wrestler now.
• A bunch of women's matches were being read as men's, because cagematch types a lot of them as just "Singles Match." Redid the gender detection (IYO vs Asuka was showing up as a men's singles, which, no).
• Someone pointed out that Okada/Tanahashi from Wrestle Kingdom 20 (a 9.6) wasn't even in the game. Turns out cagematch files a lot of the biggest shows (the Dome shows, NXT TakeOvers, etc.) under "TV-Show," so my scraper had been skipping them. Went back and pulled in ~340 of those flagship cards that were missing.

Then a couple of additions people asked for:

• A Lowboard. A surprising number of you weren't trying to book the best show — you were trying to book the worst possible card on purpose. So now there's a leaderboard for that too.
• You can tap any leaderboard entry to see the actual card that person booked.

And then the big one, which is why I'm back here:

• Five new promotions are in: All Japan, NOAH, Stardom, PWG, and AAA. So King's Road, joshi, the best indie on the planet, and lucha all have a seat now.
• Weekly TV is in: Raw, SmackDown, Nitro, Thunder, Dynamite, Collision, ECW Hardcore TV, ROH TV. Your multi-man slot can be a Nitro main event now.
• The whole pool went from around 1,600 events to about 14,000.
• There are three difficulty modes:
  • Normal — the classics (WWE/WCW/ECW/TNA/ROH/AEW/NJPW PPVs)
  • Hard — every promotion's PPVs
  • Insane — all of it, PPV plus weekly TV
• Each mode has its own Top and Low leaderboard.
• And the part I'm happiest with: Insane mode adds a third reel to the slot machine. Every spin forces you onto either PPV or TV. If it lands on TV, you're stuck drafting from that promotion and year's weekly shows — so you might be hunting for a main-event-worthy match on some random 2003 episode of Raw. That's where it gets genuinely hard.

All the match data and ratings come from cagematch.net, I'm not affiliated with them, just a fan of the database.

maineventer.com

If you've got more to add (or break), let me know — last time the comments literally became the changelog. I'm mostly curious what the lowest-scoring Insane card anyone can put together is.

I run a little wrestling team-rating game and always wanted a Pokémon version, so I built one. You draft six random Kanto mons (one random type per slot) and it simulates the full FireRed gauntlet, Lorelei through Blue, to tell you your odds of clearing it.

The battles aren't faked: it runs a few hundred sims using u/smogon/calc for real Gen-3 damage, with type matchups, crits, misses, status, PP, switching, and FRLG-ish boss AI. Your team auto-levels to match each opponent, so type coverage is what wins, not grinding. You get a per-boss clear rate, so you can see exactly which member is walling your run.

Rarer Pokémon (fossils, starters, legendaries) only surface some of the time, so a strong draft is partly luck. There's shiny pulls, risk/reward modifiers that swing your score multiplier, a leaderboard, and a lowboard for the disaster runs. Link's in the comments.