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                    Singles Rankings are Ready

                    Singles Rankings are Ready

                    That’s right, the singles rankings for the period of January 1 through March 21 are available here. Find out who sits on top of the AEW, Impact, Raw, Smackdown, NXT, NXT UK, ROH, NJPW, and MLW mountains. Learn some interesting things about Becky Lynch (only wrestled in three matches this year) and Charlotte Flair (only wrestled in four matches).

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                    Below is the ranking introduction followed by a link to keep reading. As always, follow me on Instagram to stay up to date.

                    Singles Rankings are Ready – So Much Data

                    I want to follow professional wrestling like a statistician follows baseball. I collect tons of data, pour through it all, and then share useless factoids that only I care about at fancy cocktail parties that I host for all my friends. Ok, that last part might have gone over the top. Still, my first career was all about freeing up and organizing huge amounts of financial and contract data to allow my customers to make business decisions. I want to apply those concepts to pro wrestling. The likelihood of anyone using the data is probably low, but if nothing else . . . I could use it at my fake cocktail parties.

                    If you click into the box scores at the top of the page, you’ll see a lot of the stats that I track from match to match. At the end of January, I compiled all my data from the first month of matches. The data left me confused, and I couldn’t derive any meaning from it. I knew Jon Moxley and Aleister Black were on a serious roll, but nothing else really made sense. I decided to be patient, let more data accumulate, and come back to my analysis in March.

                    Well, March is almost over, but now we have this whole global pandemic. Regardless, the major companies I follow (all WWE brands, AEW, Impact, NWA, NJPW, ROH, MLW) held 741 matches so far this year. If not for COVID-19, I assume the number would be over 1000. Those 741 matches also included 568 different wrestlers. That’s enough data to start rankings.

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