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Originally Posted by Cap
A while back I compiled a hand-written list of all the refs I planned to use in the game divided by era. That's what I refer to when I'm setting up a fight.
Pilight, how did you decide who was a '5' and who was a '10', etc?
Cap
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First I looked at the number of fights they had. I figure people get better at something the more they do it and if the ref wasn't good people would stop hiring him. I also took note of any championship fights they worked as a mark in their favor. Then I looked through their fights to see if they had controversies mentioned where they'd made errors or had decisions overruled by commissions (TKOs into NCs and the like). Then I googled their name to see if anything came up to suggest they were particularly good or bad (most times I came up with nothing at all). Then I picked a number that felt right with that info.
For stoppages and fouls I looked at how many TKOs, NCs, and DQs they had as a percentage of their fights. I also looked for reputations in these categories in my googling. Since the game works on a modern sensibility, where TKOs make up about 1/3 of results and DQs are rare, many pre-war refs rate as strict and/or late.
Note that I did not change any of the refs that came with the game.