Lucha libre, even CMLL these days, is far more soap opera and less sport. People win, people lose, and it doesn’t really matter unless you’re in a pre-programmed feud (in which case you either trade wins or the champions lose every match until they win the title defense.) It doesn’t matter what you did last Friday by the time next Friday rolls around. The top guys are identified by their position on the card and their involvement in storylines.
On the other hand, the Mexican Futbol First Division is wrapping up this half season right now. In professional sports, wins and losses are all that really matter, how you determine the winner.
Just for kicks, and because this is the kind of thing I like to do with the database, I though it’d be amusing to see who would be closing on the championship in a mirror world, where the top lucha libre wrestlers are determined by record. (I don’t have the knowledge to do it the other way for futbol.)
I includes only those with at least 17 matches between Coliseo and Mexico (First Division’s season length), and normalized the points for a 17 game season so those with the both matches aren’t unfairly rewarded. The first division season went from July 26 to November 16, so that’s what I used. There’s one show in that span where results never turned up, so that’s the U line. 2 points for a win, 1 points for a loss. Which two wrestlers would get demoted to the second division IWRG?
Name W L D U Points Blue Panther 28 2 0 0 32 Marco Corelone 22 6 0 0 27 Dos Caras Jr. 15 4 0 1 26 Volador Jr. 20 6 0 1 25 La Sombra 17 6 0 0 25 La Máscara 17 9 0 0 22 Héctor Garza 16 8 0 1 22 Sagrado 9 9 0 0 17 Valiente 9 9 0 0 17 Último Guerrero 12 13 0 0 16 Negro Casas 9 11 0 0 15 Atlantis 9 12 0 0 15 Rey Bucanero 11 16 0 0 14 Mephisto 7 14 0 1 11 Dragon Rojo Jr. 7 12 0 0 13 Ephesto 6 12 0 0 11 Averno 6 12 0 1 11 Misterioso II 6 14 0 0 10 Mr. Niebla 5 17 0 0 08 Terrible 3 15 0 1 05
Poor Niebla and Terrible. You know, CMLL enacting relegation and promotions would sure explain how Shocker and Toscano got back in, now that I think about it.
What really intrigued me out of this is Blue Panther’s record – 28 and 2! I think you can identify one of those losses pretty easily. By my count, Blue Panther won 11 matches in a row between losing his mask and losing his next, against Atlantis, Rey and UG on 11/14. There’s been a concentrated effort to build/rehab Panther here, and it’s been completely lost on me.
Note the top group is all tecnicos, the bottom group is all rudos, and UG has been both and is in the middle. That’s never changing.
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Cool list, Cubs. I always like seeing things like this.
I’m confused as hell by the point totals, though.
Aha, missed the normalization thing.