Who wants to do a Fantasy Wrestling League?

[R-Troop]

I have run a fantasy wrestling league at another forum a few years ago. If I were to do it here would anyone be interested?

As of now the plan would be for it to only include WWE shows this season, and I would consider adding AEW for future seasons (AEW running Wednesday and taping for Friday makes figuring out when a week ends really difficult).

In a perfect world I'd start it in time for the Royal Rumble and it would culminate around Mania Weekend or before (might be before so Season 2 would include Mania).

Season 1 would likely be a Battle Royale style where points are accrued each week highest scorer for the season wins, future seasons will be head-to-head. If we want to do head to head right away and include AEW as well we can but that will take longer to set up.

I'll post the rules in another post on this thread.

 

[O-Blaze]

I’m interested and might consider it. Seems fun

 

[Wiseman]

I'd throw my name into the thing..

 

[Comrade Khan]

Idl how to play but always down

 

[Chris]

You have my attention

 

[R-Troop]

Fuck it we're including AEW too.

Here's the details. I used spoilers as headers for each category.

Spoiler: Roster Restrictions and Scoring Shows

Each team will have 10 PERFORMERS. 7 of them will be active, with 3 on the bench (not scoring).

• 1 Raw Male Performer
• 1 Smackdown Male Performer
• 1 NXT Male Performer
• 1 AEW Male Performer
• 1 Female Performer (any show)
• 2 FLEX positions (any performer male or Female from any wrestling show).
• 3 Bench slots (these performers will not score. In future seasons with Head-To-Head scoring the Bench score will be the tiebreaker)

You can set your lineups at any point, however the positions lock once the show starts. For example you cannot move an AEW guy after Dynamite goes on-air. Since Rampage is typically recorded on Wednesday, any AEW performer is locked when Dynamite goes on-air.

If WWE records multiple NXT shows in advance NXT rosters are locked until the week of new TV tapings. Same is true for any other show.

Extenuating circumstances may arise that require emergency changes to the roster rules, they will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

The following shows will count for the game:
RAW, Smackdown, NXT, AEW Dynamite, AEW Rampage, all WWE PLEs, NXT Takeovers, AEW PPVs. Surprise shows will be counted on a case-by-case basis. NXT Lvl Up, WWE Main Event, AEW Dark and Dark Elevation are not counted, as nobody cares about them and they're sometimes taped in advance. These performers that compete on these shows only are available to be used in the flex spots, but they will only score if they appear on a scoring show.

RAW/Smackdown/NXT rosters will be detrermined by WWE.com. AEW Rosters are determined by AllEliteWrestling.com. If you want to draft Matt Cardona because you think he'll win the Royal Rumble you'd be smart, but he will only be able to be in one of the FLEX position until he is officially tied to a TV shows roster. Same is true for a random New Japan guy you think would be on AEW. They will score if they appear on the aforementioned Scoring Shows but can only be on a FLEX spot unless they are officially added to the roster.

Spoiler: Free Agency/Waiver Wire

Each Week begins with NXT on Tuesday Night and ends with Monday Night RAW.

Free Agency Period: The Free Agency period starts when RAW goes off the Air Monday Night (approximately 11PM Eastern). It ends at 3PM Eastern on Tuesday.
WAIVER SYSTEM: Each team is allowed 1 "waiver claim" per week. At any point during the scoring period multiple people can put in a claim for an available performer. Waiver claims are in Worst to First order, so team in last place has #1 spot on the list, and first place has the last spot.* Once RAW Ends the Waiver claims will be processed.
Free Agency: Each team is allowed one additional Free Agency pickup per week. An additional pickup may be allowed in the event of a performer being legitimately injured, suspended, or released. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis, and the dropping team will be unable to pick up the dropped performer for the remainder of the season.*

Spoiler: Scoring

Singles Match Ups (Includes One on One, Triple Threat, Fatal Four Way, etc):
Pinfall/Submission/KO/Ref Stoppage Victory - 10 points
DQ/Count out Victory - 8 Points
Championship Win - 14 points (awarded to a NEW CHAMPION. Retaining champions awarded points as stated above)
Championship Loss - 10 points (awarded to the FORMER CHAMPION who has lost their title, not to a challenger who didn't win. They are awarded the points as listed below.
Loss - 4 Points
Draw/Time Limit/Double DQ/Double Count Out - 4 Points
If no decision is announced (IE a run-in beating up everyone and the match is thrown out) - 4 Points

Tag Team Match Ups:
Divide the points above in half. This includes traditional Two on Two, Triple Threat Tag Team Matches, Three on Three, Four on Four, etc.
*The performer who gains the fall (pins the opponent or makes the opponent submit) will receive a bonus point. No bonus points will be awarded in Count-Out or Disqualification results. The Bonus point will be awarded AFTER Championship bonus (I.E Tag Teams gets 7 for winning the belt and the guy who gets the fall gets 8 Points.*

Handicap matches (2 or more vs. 1):
The team scores like a tag match, and the individual gets singles match points.
3 (or more) vs. 2 (or more) is scored like a regular tag match.

TOURNAMENTS:
Scoring system determined in a case by case basis decided on tournament size. Most likely the matches will be scored as normal matches. If there's a 1 night Tournament there may be different scoring to maintain fair scoring.

Gauntlet Match
Win: 10 Points
Loss: 4 Points
Elimination Bonus: 2 Points per elimination

ELIMINATION CHAMBER:
Winner: 10 Points
Loss: 4 Points
Elimination Bonus: 2 Points per elimination

Championship win/loss bonus is in effect, so if the champion loses he gets 10 plus the elimination bonus, and new champs get 14 plus the bonus.

Battle Royals

10 Stars or Under:
Win: 10 points
Loss: 4 points


Battle Royal of 11 Stars or Over
Win: 10 points
Final Four(Aside from Winner): 8
Loss: 4

Royal Rumble
Winner: 14 Points
Final 4: 10 Points
Loss: 4 Points
Elimination Bonus: 2 points for solo, 1 for shared elimination (2 people elimination 1 person).

Spoiler: Inactive Scoring

24/7 Championship
Win the title at any point DURING the show - 5 points (awarded once per show)
Successfully end the show as Champion after defending it (Henceforth called "Show End Points") - an ADDITIONAL 5 points.

The maximum points the 24/7 Championship can get you per show is 10. If you win the belt 5 times in one night you get 5 points.
24/7 Title Defenses are classified as kicking out of a pin, or running from the Horde Of Jobbers.

If nobody attempts to get the 24/7 Championship during the show, then NO POINTS ARE AWARDED. For example, if the current champion is not on the show, NO POINTS. If all they do is a regular match, NO 24/7 points. If they have to run for the Horde of Jobbers then you get "Show End Points."

War Games matches:
Winning team members: 8 points
Losing team members 3 points
Bonus point for the person getting the fall (multiple points will be awarded if 2 people pin 1 person)

Survivor Series matches
Victory/Surviving Members â?? 10 points each
Victory/Eliminated Members â?? 8 points each
Losing Team â?? 4 points each
BONUS - Wrestlers awarded 2 points for every elimination they are responsible for (Pinfall, submission, being attacked by a chair and causing a DQ, being the legal superstar while an opponent is counted out, etc)

 

[Chris]

Excellent, I remember when WWE.com tried something like this themselves lol

Why the week start on Tuesday instead of just Monday btw? Idc either way, just curious

 

[R-Troop]

Excellent, I remember when WWE.com tried something like this themselves lol

Why the week start on Tuesday instead of just Monday btw? Idc either way, just curious

Honestly when I used to run this NXT was on Wednesday so Monday Night gave me 36 hours to do rosters and such (Back in the day I'd lock rosters at 11AM cause I worked overnight and would go to sleep after that lol).

Also with PLEs on Weekends it is easier to know what weeks PLEs score on if it's in the middle of the week.

 

[Chris]

Yeah whatever works best for you is fine as a start for me anyway, was just curious

 

[R-Troop]

Yeah whatever works best for you is fine as a start for me anyway, was just curious

honestly I may end up changing it next season if it becomes too quick to do and Free Agency. Even more likely will when Football Season comes around and PLEs are on Saturday. Didn't want to have Weeks end on Sunday Night and need the rosters done Monday afternoon.

 

[#Waddles]

I was/still am a member of Troopers league for about 4 seasons

He runs a dope ship.

Add me my brother.

 

[O-Blaze]

Yeah I’m in then

 

[R-Troop]

I'd like to get 8 for this first season. Since it won't be head to head I can do it with 7 or 9 but I think 8 is ideal.

Once we get to 8 I will work on getting a Draft order I will announce the draft order and when we'll start. Once the draft is done we can start the following week, however the earliest I think we'll start is beginning of January. WWE usually tapes shows for Christmas week the week prior (I know Monday is taped as they will have a house show at MSG that day and if my schedule permits I'll be attending).

Can't wait to get this started I missed doing this.

 

[The Gipper]

Well considering I’m currently doing the league for the efed wrestling, might as well compete in the league for the actual wrestling, let’s do this!

 

[B01]

Idl how to play but always down

I echo Jeff's words right here...