Wrestling Analysis
I always love doing wrestling analysis. I don't know why. Perhaps, it's because I like the idea of finding relationships between people's rankings and how you can extract conclusions to their preferences.

For instance, take djcnote's top 100 matches writeup that he did over at F4W: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/7899/

After about an hour, I got...

Mookieghana's patented random wrestling statistical analysis

ROH: 43 matches
NOAH: 14 matches
WWE: 13 matches
TNA: 5 matches
WXW: 5 matches
NJPW: 4 matches
PWG: 3 matches
DRAGON GATE: 2 matches
IWA: MS: 2 matches
ZERO-1: 2 matches
AJPW: 1 matches
BJW: 1 matches
FIP: 1 matches
KENSUKE OFFICE: 1 matches
PWE: 1 matches
SENDAI: 1 matches
SUZUKI: 1 matches

6 European matches (I believe - WXW and PWE are Euro?), 27 Japanese matches, 67 US matches

123 wrestlers listed (maybe less; I don't know all Japanese wrestlers listed; excluded the Royal Rumble)
2 Cold Scorpio -- 1 matches (67 avg, best at 67, lowest at 67)
Adam Pearce -- 1 matches (40 avg, best at 40, lowest at 40)
AJ Styles -- 2 matches (50 avg, best at 37, lowest at 63)
Aja Kong -- 1 matches (39 avg, best at 39, lowest at 39)
Akihito Ito -- 1 matches (1 avg, best at 1, lowest at 1)
Akira-Araya -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Alex Shelley -- 4 matches (52.5 avg, best at 4, lowest at 91)
Antonio Honda -- 1 matches (65 avg, best at 65, lowest at 65)
Atsushi Aoki -- 1 matches (1 avg, best at 1, lowest at 1)
Austin Aries -- 9 matches (22.1 avg, best at 2, lowest at 48)
Bad Bones -- 1 matches (72 avg, best at 72, lowest at 72)
BJ Whitmer -- 3 matches (49.3 avg, best at 27, lowest at 73)
Bobby Roode -- 1 matches (86 avg, best at 86, lowest at 86)
Brent Albright -- 2 matches (56.5 avg, best at 40, lowest at 73)
Bryan Danielson -- 18 matches (48.2 avg, best at 5, lowest at 92)
BxB Hulk -- 4 matches (67.5 avg, best at 59, lowest at 78)
Chris Hero -- 1 matches (56 avg, best at 56, lowest at 56)
Chris Jericho -- 3 matches (33 avg, best at 11, lowest at 64)
Chris Sabin -- 4 matches (52.5 avg, best at 4, lowest at 91)
Christian Cage -- 1 matches (82 avg, best at 82, lowest at 82)
CIMA -- 1 matches (84 avg, best at 84, lowest at 84)
Claudio Castagnoli -- 4 matches (49.3 avg, best at 5, lowest at 98)
Cyber Kong -- 1 matches (65 avg, best at 65, lowest at 65)
Daisuke Sekimoto -- 1 matches (91 avg, best at 91, lowest at 91)
Danshoku Dino -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Dave Batista -- 1 matches (62 avg, best at 62, lowest at 62) * does not linclude Royal Rumble *
Davey Richards -- 4 matches (58 avg, best at 48, lowest at 70)
Dragon Kid -- 1 matches (84 avg, best at 84, lowest at 84)
Eddie Edwards -- 1 matches (60 avg, best at 60, lowest at 60)
Eddie Kingston -- 1 matches (67 avg, best at 67, lowest at 67)
Edge -- 3 matches (48 avg, best at 3, lowest at 94)
El Generico -- 8 matches (57.9 avg, best at 15, lowest at 98)
Erick Stevens -- 2 matches (36.5 avg, best at 30, lowest at 43)
Fuuka -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Genki Horiguchi -- 1 matches (84 avg, best at 84, lowest at 84)
Giant Bernard -- 1 matches (76 avg, best at 76, lowest at 76)
Go Shiozaki -- 5 matches (55.2 avg, best at 19, lowest at 83)
HARASHIMA -- 1 matches (65 avg, best at 65, lowest at 65)
Hercules Senga -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Hernandez -- 2 matches (65.5 avg, best at 56, lowest at 75)
HHH -- 3 matches (64.3 avg, best at 24, lowest at 100) *does not include Royal Rumble*
Hikaru Sato -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Hiroshi Tanahashi -- 2 matches (47 avg, best at 18, lowest at 76)
Homicide -- 1 matches (75 avg, best at 75, lowest at 75)
Ikuto Hidaka -- 1 matches (45 avg, best at 45, lowest at 45)
Ippei Ota -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Jack Evans -- 1 matches (73 avg, best at 73, lowest at 73)
James Storm -- 1 matches (86 avg, best at 86, lowest at 86)
Jay Briscoe -- 5 matches (38.0 avg, best at 8, lowest at 75)
JBL -- 1 matches (24 avg, best at 24, lowest at 24) *does not include Royal Rumble*
Jeff Hardy -- 4 matches (45.8 avg, best at 24, lowest at 69)
Jigsaw -- 1 matches (73 avg, best at 73, lowest at 73)
Jimmy Jacobs -- 12 matches (40.4 avg, best at 4, lowest at 90)
John Cena -- 2 matches (81.0 avg, best at 62, lowest at 100) *does not include Royal Rumble*
Johnny Saint -- 1 matches (33 avg, best at 33, lowest at 33)
Jun Akiyama -- 2 matches (88 avg, best at 80, lowest at 96)
Katsuhiko Nakajima -- 7 matches (44.6 avg, best at 1, lowest at 87)
Kenny Omega -- 1 matches (66 avg, best at 66, lowest at 66)
Kensuke Sasaki -- 4 matches (28.8 avg, best at 1, lowest at 80)
KENTA -- 8 matches (40.4 avg, best at 1, lowest at 78)
Kenta Kobashi -- 5 matches (29.2 avg, best at 1, lowest at 74)
Kevin Steen -- 4 matches (41.3 avg, best at 15, lowest at 68)
Kiku-Jumbo -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Kota Ibushi -- 4 matches (60 avg, best at 23, lowest at 95)
Kotaro Suzuki -- 1 matches (28 avg, best at 28, lowest at 28)
KUDO -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Kurt Angle -- 6 matches (60.5 avg, best at 35, lowest at 97)
KUSHIDA -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Low Ki -- 1 matches (41 avg, best at 41, lowest at 41)
Makoto Oishi -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Manabu Nakanishi -- 1 matches (36 avg, best at 36, lowest at 36)
Mark Briscoe -- 6 matches (43.8 avg, best at 8, lowest at 75)
Masato Tanaka -- 3 matches (59.3 avg, best at 36, lowest at 91)
Masato Yoshino -- 2 matches (55 avg, best at 26, lowest at 84)
Meiko Satomura -- 1 matches (39 avg, best at 39, lowest at 39)
MEN's Teioh -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Mike Quackenbush -- 3 matches (70.3 avg, best at 33, lowest at 99)
Minoru Fujita -- 1 matches (45 avg, best at 45, lowest at 45)
Mitsuharu Misawa -- 2 matches (66 avg, best at 55, lowest at 77)
Munenori Sawa -- 1 matches (45 avg, best at 45, lowest at 45)
Muscle Sakai -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Naomichi Marufuji -- 11 matches (60.5 avg, best at 7, lowest at 99)
Naruki Doi -- 2 matches (55 avg, best at 26, lowest at 84)
Nigel McGuinness -- 9 matches (32.4 avg, best at 2, lowest at 90)
Onryo -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Randy Orton -- 1 matches (100 avg, best at 100, lowest at 100)
Rey Mysterio Jr -- 1 matches (94 avg, best at 94, lowest at 94)
Ric Flair -- 1 matches (54 avg, best at 54, lowest at 54)
Rocky Romero -- 3 matches (63.7 avg, best at 48, lowest at 85)
Roderick Strong -- 7 matches (70.1 avg, best at 43, lowest at 93)
Ryo Saito -- 1 matches (84 avg, best at 84, lowest at 84)
Samoa Joe -- 1 matches (97 avg, best at 97, lowest at 97)
Sanshiro Chono -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Seiya Sanada -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Shawn Michaels -- 5 matches (39.4 avg, best at 11, lowest at 64) * does not include Royal Rumble *
Shingo Takagi -- 4 matches (67.5 avg, best at 59, lowest at 78)
Shinobu -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Shinsuke Nakamura -- 1 matches (49 avg, best at 49, lowest at 49)
Shuhei Taniguchi -- 1 matches (7 avg, best at 7, lowest at 7)
Suwama -- 1 matches (18 avg, best at 18, lowest at 18)
Taiji Ishimori -- 4 matches (63.8 avg, best at 28, lowest at 89)
Takaku Fuke -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Takashi Okita -- 1 matches (1 avg, best at 1, lowest at 1)
Takashi Sugiura -- 5 matches (42 avg, best at 7, lowest at 96)
TAKEMURA -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
Takeshi Morishima -- 5 matches (39.6 avg, best at 7, lowest at 77)
Takeshi Rikio -- 2 matches (88 avg, best at 80, lowest at 96)
Takuma Sano -- 1 matches (74 avg, best at 74, lowest at 74)
Takuya Sugawara -- 1 matches (45 avg, best at 45, lowest at 45)
Tamon Honda -- 2 matches (40.5 avg, best at 7, lowest at 74)
Tetsuya Naito -- 1 matches (13 avg, best at 13, lowest at 13)
The Undertaker -- 2 matches (25 avg, best at 3, lowest at 47) *does not include Royal Rumble*
Tsutomu Oosugi -- 1 matches (71 avg, best at 71, lowest at 71)
Tyler Black -- 16 matches (42.3 avg, best at 4, lowest at 93)
Umaga -- 2 matches (35 avg, best at 24, lowest at 46) *does not include Royal Rumble*
Yoshihiro Takayama -- 2 matches (64.5 avg, best at 55, lowest at 74)
Yoshinobu Kanemaru -- 1 matches (28 avg, best at 28, lowest at 28)
Yuji Nagata -- 2 matches (43 avg, best at 35, lowest at 51)

40 wrestlers are on the list at least 3 times (if you include the Royal Rumble).
When you look at their top three matches, a top ten quickly emerges who all had three matches ranked in the top 25. (Austin Aries, Tyler Black, Bryan Danielson, Jimmy Jacobs, KENTA, Kenta Kobashi, Naomichi Marufuji, Nigel McGuinness, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kensuke Sasaki). However, I think it's also important to weight matches according to the number of people in it (i.e. singles matches are weighted much heavier than tag matches). I did this by # of people in match x rank (wgt points).

1) Nigel McGuinness: #2-singles, #5-4man, #14-singles (52 wgt points, 21 rank points)
2) Austin Aries: #2-singles, #10-4man, #12-singles (56 wgt points, 24 rank points)
3) Bryan Danielson: #5-4man, #6-singles, #10-4man (66 wgt points, 21 rank points)
4) Tyler Black: #4-4man, #5-4man, #8-4man (68 wgt points, 17 rank points)
5) Jimmy Jacobs: #4-4man, #8-4man, #10-4man (72 wgt points, 22 rank points)
6) Kenta Kobashi: #1-8man, #7-6man, #9-4man (86 wgt points, 17 rank points)
7) Kensuke Sasaki: #1-8man, #9-4man, #25-singles (94 wgt points, 35 rank points)
8) KENTA & Katsuhiko Nakajima: #1-8man, #9-4man, #23-4man (136 wgt points, 33 rank points)
10) Takeshi Morishima: #7-6man, #25-singles, #31-singles (154 wgt points, 63 rank points)
11) Takashi Sugiura: #7-6man, #21-4man, #31-singles (188 wgt points, 59 rank points)
12) El Generico: #15-4man, #16-singles, #26-4man (196 wgt points, 57 rank points)
13) Claudio Castagnoli: #5-4man, #6-singles, #88-singles (208 wgt points, 99 rank points)
14) Naomichi Marufuji: #7-6man, #21-4man, #23-4man (218 wgt points, 51 rank points)
15) Shawn Michaels: #11-singles, #20-Royal Rumble, #24-6man (218 wgt points, 55 rank points)
16) Jay & Mark Briscoe: #8-4man, #21-4man, #29-4man (232 wgt points, 58 rank points)
18) Kurt Angle: #35-singles, #37-singles, #49-singles (242 wgt points, 121 rank points)
19) Edge: #3-singles, #47-singles, #94-singles (288 wgt points, 144 rank points)
20) Chris Jericho: #11-singles, #24-6man, #64-singles (294 wgt points, 99 rank points)
21) Jeff Hardy: #24-6man, #44-singles, #46-singles (318 wgt points, 114 rank points)
22) Roderick Strong: #43-singles, #58-6man, #61-singles (348 wgt points, 162 rank points)
23) Mike Quackenbush: #33-singles, #79-singles, #99-singles (422 wgt points, 211 rank points)
24) Kevin Steen: #15-4man, #26-4man, #56-8man (436 wgt points, 97 rank points)
25) Go Shiozaki: #19-singles, #42-singles, #58-6man (454 wgt points, 119 rank points)
26) Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley: #4-4man, #29-4man, #86-4man (476 wgt points, 119 rank points)
28) Kota Ibushi: #23-4man, #57-4man, #65-6man (510 wgt points, 145 rank points)
29) Taiji Ishimori: #28-4man, #60-4man, #78-4man (530 wgt points, 166 rank points)
30) Masato Tanaka: #36-singles, #51-singles, #91-4man (538 wgt points, 178 rank points)
31) HHH: #20-Royal Rumble, #24-6man, #69-singles (582 wgt points, 113 rank points)
32) The Undertaker: #3-singles, #20-Royal Rumble, #47-singles (700 wgt points, 70 rank points)
33) Shingo Takagi & BxB Hulk: #59-4man, #65-6man, #68-4man (820 wgt points, 192 rank points)
35) Umaga: #20-Royal Rumble, #24-6man, #46-singles (836 wgt points, 90 rank points)
36) Davey Richards: #48-8man, #56-8man, #58-6man (872 wgt points, 162 rank points)
37) Rocky Romero: #48-8man, #58-6man, #85-singles (902 wgt points, 191 rank points)
38) BJ Whitmer: #27-singles, #48-8man, #73-8man (1022 wgt points, 148 rank points)
39) John Cena: #20-Royal Rumble, #62-Singles, #100-singles
40) Brent Albright: #40-singles, #48-8man, #73-8man (1048 wgt points, 161 rank points)

Obeservations:

1) Top 5 individuals are all from ROH. 43% of the matches selected were ROH (including 14 of the top 25).
2) Tyler Black finishes MUCH higher than I would have imagined. His three matches in the top 9 actually ties him with Kenta Kobashi before you look at weighting matches according to participants.
3) For the best_of_three list, I threw in the Royal Rumble which helps the WWE guys, though not by much considering it's worth 600 weighted points.



ROCK. I guess I find statistics more easy to write than text.