Okay, this a little experiment I've been developing for a while. I've tallied up every single Raw segment rating since the show went three hours in July. I've then decided on the talent that was the focus of those individual segments, and assigned those segments' ratings to the talents. This is all in a spreadsheet so that I can then do various calculations including seeking out trends and of course averages.
Here are the results. I have discounted wrestlers with less than five segments to their name. The figures are thousands.
Average Impact
1 CM Punk 377
2 Mr. McMahon 376
3 Big Show 331
4 John Cena 308
5 Brock Lesnar 265
43 Zack Ryder -174
44 Epico -182
44 Primo -182
46 Santino Marella -185
47 Antonio Cesaro -221
Biggest Gain and Loss
1 CM Punk, Mr. McMahon (10/8) 1233
2 Big Show, CM Punk, John Cena (7/30) 1181
3 CM Punk, Dolph Ziggler, John Cena, Ryback (11/5) 1084
4 CM Punk, Sheamus (10/22) 1058
5 CM Punk, Mick Foley (9/24) 877
282 Darren Young, Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Titus O'Neil (10/8) -653
283 Alberto Del Rio, Kofi Kingston (10/1) -824
284 CM Punk, Jerry Lawler, Paul Heyman (11/12) -876
285 Christian, The Miz (7/23) -895
286 David Otunga, Sheamus (11/12) -910
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If anyone wishes to request figures on a trend such a certain month for a superstar or perhaps for Ryback since he entered the main event scene, I'm happy to do that. Here are my notes:
- Unsurprisingly, those with strong booking head the table. CM Punk and Big Show, who have been booked extremely strongly since Raw 1000, both have excellent averages.
- Worryingly, both John Cena and Sheamus do not. I mean Cena is pretty solid I suppose, but Sheamus is a failure. Cena's strongest segments came with Punk, and Sheamus' strongest segments all came with Big Show. Which would suggest people are tuning in for the heel, which is... odd. Maybe they weren't so smart to start booking Cena as a loser.
- Some talents are far, far lower down than you would expect. I mean poor Primo and Epico are stuck in quarters that always lose viewers, but there is no excuse for the likes of Alberto Del Rio and the Miz. The Miz actually has a negative average which is absolutely ridiculous for a talent that sometimes works on the hourly quarters. Del Rio has probably posted more heavy losses than any other talent. These guys are not interesting to the television audience.
- AJ Lee is nowhere near the draw she is made out to be. Absolutely nowhere near. She is 14th on the average list, below Daniel Bryan. Almost half of her segments lose viewers and unless she has John Cena or Vickie Guerrero to work with, no one gives a monkey's about her.
- Speaking of Vickie Guerrero, she has an extremely impressive average. 8th on the average list, she is higher than Sheamus, Ryback and Randy Orton. And remember she is a manager, so she is dotted around the show in backstage segments that almost always lose. She is extremely impressive in that regard. I can't stand her, but the figures are there.
- And one for the IWC, Daniel Bryan is higher than Kane (hooray).
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