Hey Scott,
Awhile ago (a few years I think), I sent you an email describing my
system for rating workers in pro wrestling. Well, I recently expanded
on that and figured rankings for every wrestler who's ever had a
3-star one-on-one match rated in the Observer. I came up with a Top
50 (51, actually, because of a 50th-place tie), and I'm so proud of
the system that I decided to start a blog and release a countdown.
Basically it works like this: I take the wrestler's 10 best matches,
total the ratings, and double that to get a number out of 100. Ties
are handled by comparing 11th-best matches, then 12th-best, and so on.
The ratings are taken from this blog, which compiles all 3-star
ratings from the Observer: http://starratingslist.blogspot.com/. The
reason there is a 50th-place tie is that there are only ten rated
matches for each of the two wrestlers tied for 50th.
As far as using Meltzer's ratings and not yours, don't feel bad, I've
read you online for 12 years now (and even bought one of your books
back in the day), but I never opened an issue of WON in my life.
http://wrestlingworkers.blogspot.com/
You should read the WON, it’s pretty awesome. And my ratings generally match up to Dave’s within about 1/2* in most instances, so that list would probably give a pretty good indication of my own ratings anyway.