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This thread will serve as clarification of various aspects of the NWPC format.
Updated for Season 2!
The Event
The standard NWPC event consists of predictions for at least 1 wrestling show.
It consists of two parts: the Title Matches and the Free-For-All.
The Two Title Matches
The titles are:
Predicting
You will predict the results of the matches that were announced for the shows involved at the time of the event being posted. No later matches are added.
You must predict one winner. Draws and no-contests cannot be predicted.
The exception to the draw rule being Japanese Young Lion matches because it is often expected they will end in time limit draws. In that case, it is allowed to predict a draw for that match only.
Late predictions will not be accepted. Pay attention to the deadline posted in the thread. It is intentionally set as one hour before belltime of the first show involved.
Partial predictions will not be accepted.
Confidence and Scoring
You should give a confidence ranking to all matches, based on how confident you are in that prediction. A more confident prediction receives a higher number, and a less confident prediction receives a lower number.
When the event is scored, each match will be worth a number of points to you equal to the value you gave that prediction.
Winning
Scores will be sorted by: highest prediction score, then best prediction ratio (correct/total), then highest number of tiebreak (TB) points, then reverse order of the rankings up to this point (with debuting predictors counting lowest), then earliest submission.
Earliest submission applies only for the Free-For-All; a Title Match cannot be decided by earliest submission, for reasons of fairness.
Tiebreaks
Tiebreak (TB) points are used to separate participants whose score is the same as each other.
The questions will vary between events.
However, questions that are regularly asked are: which match will be the longest, and which match will be the shortest, out of all matches you predicted for.
Clarifications for tiebreaks
Card Subject To Change
If a match ends in a draw or no contest (except Young Lion matches), it will be struck from the record and will not be counted as a correct or wrong prediction for anyone.
If a two-sided match has the entirety of one side replaced, it will be struck off similarly. Larger matches are up to my discretion. The greater the size of a multi-man, the less likely it is to be struck off if only one participant is replaced. I also take into account whether anyone picked the replaced participant.
If one member of a stable is switched out for another for a tag team match, this is not grounds to strike the match off.
The Season and the Rankings
The Rankings keep track of how predictors are doing in relation to each other.
Rankings are ordered by:
At the end of the Season, the top of the Rankings will become official Predictor of the Season.
No-Shows
While no one is expected to predict on every event if you're just in the Free-For-All, there's a lot of benefits to doing so.
For one thing, it's easy to get an edge in the Rankings just by building up little positive prediction records bit by bit.
You'll also earn my appreciation and respect.
If you are in a Title Match, you are expected to appear.
If you no-show a Title Match, you'll be counted as taking wrong predictions for every single match on the card.
This, obviously, will not reflect well on your position in the Rankings.
The Workhorseweight Title and the "Rosie Rule"
Since the Workhorseweight Title is, despite its undeniable prestige, a "secondary" title, a mechanism has now been added to springboard its holder into the Galaxyweight Title scene.
If the Workhorseweight Champion has made nine (9) successful defences they may DM me with their intent to cash in the title.
(Why nine and not ten? So I don't have to delay posting the next card while waiting for the champ's decision. The minimum number of defences you can vacate the belt with is, functionally, ten.)
If they do so, AND they win their title defence that week, they will automatically vacate their title and be added to next week's Galaxyweight Title match.
In this case, special rules will be applied for this match: they enter with an extra number of TB equal to the number of their successful defences, and they automatically win tiebreaks if tied on both points and TB.
This will be known as the "Rosie Rule", after the champion whose run inspired it.
Updated for Season 2!
The Event
The standard NWPC event consists of predictions for at least 1 wrestling show.
It consists of two parts: the Title Matches and the Free-For-All.
The Two Title Matches
The titles are:
- NWPC Galaxyweight Prediction Championship - right to challenge is determined by whoever won the Free-For-All the previous week.
- NWPC Workhorseweight Prediction Championship - right to challenge is determined by whoever got the highest total score in the previous three weeks' events, except for those in any Galaxyweight or Workhorseweight Title Match on either that week or the previous week
Predicting
You will predict the results of the matches that were announced for the shows involved at the time of the event being posted. No later matches are added.
You must predict one winner. Draws and no-contests cannot be predicted.
The exception to the draw rule being Japanese Young Lion matches because it is often expected they will end in time limit draws. In that case, it is allowed to predict a draw for that match only.
Late predictions will not be accepted. Pay attention to the deadline posted in the thread. It is intentionally set as one hour before belltime of the first show involved.
Partial predictions will not be accepted.
Confidence and Scoring
You should give a confidence ranking to all matches, based on how confident you are in that prediction. A more confident prediction receives a higher number, and a less confident prediction receives a lower number.
When the event is scored, each match will be worth a number of points to you equal to the value you gave that prediction.
Winning
Scores will be sorted by: highest prediction score, then best prediction ratio (correct/total), then highest number of tiebreak (TB) points, then reverse order of the rankings up to this point (with debuting predictors counting lowest), then earliest submission.
Earliest submission applies only for the Free-For-All; a Title Match cannot be decided by earliest submission, for reasons of fairness.
Tiebreaks
Tiebreak (TB) points are used to separate participants whose score is the same as each other.
The questions will vary between events.
However, questions that are regularly asked are: which match will be the longest, and which match will be the shortest, out of all matches you predicted for.
Clarifications for tiebreaks
- If a match is intended to start, but never gets started due to shenanigans, it will not be counted as the shortest match with a time of 0:00. Don't be silly.
- For "will they interfere?" questions, interference is counted as a physical interaction or deliberate distraction with the intended effect of helping or hindering a certain participant in the match.
- For "will interference lead to a win?" questions, interference is counted as above, and leading to a win is counted as if it forms a direct part of the finish of the match, in favour of the eventual winner. For example:
- A is facing B. A's ally attacks or distracts B. A hits their finisher and wins = this counts.
- A's ally attacks B. A hits their finisher. B kicks out, then hits their finisher and wins = this does not count.
- A's ally tries to attack B, but B fights the ally off, then hits their finisher and wins = this does not count.
- A's ally tries to attack B, but hits A by mistake. B hits their finisher and wins = this counts.
- For "will they use a weapon?" questions, if the weapon is meant to be held (e.g. chair, kendo stick) and the wrestler, for example, slams their opponent on to it, this does not count. If the weapon is not meant to be held (e.g. table, ladder, tacks) and the wrestler slams their opponent on to it, this counts.
Card Subject To Change
If a match ends in a draw or no contest (except Young Lion matches), it will be struck from the record and will not be counted as a correct or wrong prediction for anyone.
If a two-sided match has the entirety of one side replaced, it will be struck off similarly. Larger matches are up to my discretion. The greater the size of a multi-man, the less likely it is to be struck off if only one participant is replaced. I also take into account whether anyone picked the replaced participant.
If one member of a stable is switched out for another for a tag team match, this is not grounds to strike the match off.
The Season and the Rankings
The Rankings keep track of how predictors are doing in relation to each other.
Rankings are ordered by:
- Overall prediction score
- Prediction score difference (right predictions minus wrong predictiona)
- Number of TB points
- Number of events predicted for
At the end of the Season, the top of the Rankings will become official Predictor of the Season.
No-Shows
While no one is expected to predict on every event if you're just in the Free-For-All, there's a lot of benefits to doing so.
For one thing, it's easy to get an edge in the Rankings just by building up little positive prediction records bit by bit.
You'll also earn my appreciation and respect.
If you are in a Title Match, you are expected to appear.
If you no-show a Title Match, you'll be counted as taking wrong predictions for every single match on the card.
This, obviously, will not reflect well on your position in the Rankings.
The Workhorseweight Title and the "Rosie Rule"
Since the Workhorseweight Title is, despite its undeniable prestige, a "secondary" title, a mechanism has now been added to springboard its holder into the Galaxyweight Title scene.
If the Workhorseweight Champion has made nine (9) successful defences they may DM me with their intent to cash in the title.
(Why nine and not ten? So I don't have to delay posting the next card while waiting for the champ's decision. The minimum number of defences you can vacate the belt with is, functionally, ten.)
If they do so, AND they win their title defence that week, they will automatically vacate their title and be added to next week's Galaxyweight Title match.
In this case, special rules will be applied for this match: they enter with an extra number of TB equal to the number of their successful defences, and they automatically win tiebreaks if tied on both points and TB.
This will be known as the "Rosie Rule", after the champion whose run inspired it.
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