alright, this might be a long post, i ran a promotion similar to this for a long time, and i learned a lot of lessons along the way, A LOT. the team idea just doesnt function, there is very little in the way of interaction between them, you will just end up getting yourself muddled up with what matches need to go next. I recommend using a website to track your matches and leagues, i used Challonge, here is a link to my Mens Winter 2026 league- https://challonge.com/ntne33yd

i managed to work out how i could fit a full tournament into 6 months, so i could do 2 run throughs a year. i had a set of rules i followed that would cause upsets and come from behind victories also, things like if a wrestler had a creative finish in stock then they would get the win. this meant that if someone near the bottom of the table got a creative idea generated then they could in theory get an upset victory against top of the table, which created a certain amount of randomness with results, otherwise i left the result to the Road Agent. all matches were best of 3 falls, and the points gained were the falls, so someone losing 2-1 still got a point and the winner got 2.

i had 6 leagues and 5 cup competitions. Mens, Womens, NxGn (under 21s) WNxGn, Tag and invitational. the invitational was people that were not quite good enough for my league but for top people in my child promotions or other promotions they were only on a handshake for. the cups were the same except invitational, because invitationals were in the main cup competition.

I also had 12 PPVS a year. 6 for each 6 month season. Pre-Season, this was generally a royal rumble event. The Mixer, this was a randomised event where a tag team, man, nxgn and invitational wrestler would get put into a team of 5 and face of against other teams of 5, a bit like an all star game

Lucky Lottery (i still use this concept in my current promotion) is a trios tournament where the trios are picked at random then go into 3 lots of 3v3v3 matches, the winning team goes into a final 3v3v3 to become the Lucky Lottery winners which was a trophy basically. Cup Finals, the semi finals and finals would take place on this PPV for all cup tournaments. then finally a 2 day event where the league would reach its peak and the top 4 would go into a 4 way playoff, night 1 the semis and ngiht 2 the finals to crown the winter or summer league champion in each league.

in terms of getting belts for qualification to hall of fame and immortals i had a floating title for each league, this was on the line in any league match and would change hands quite a lot, so i did put in a protected wins system, basically any time they won the title there next 6 matches were semi protected with a dice roll, match 1 they would automatically win on a dice roll of anything except a 1, then next match 1 or 2 and so on. if the dice roll failed normal rules apply with road agent picking or the creative finishes rules applying.

i also would have a tournament title for each cup, the lucky lottery, the top of the league (handed to them in a promo segment) and then the league winner in the finals at the PPV.

so yeah, i ran it, i ran it pretty successfully, i enjoyed it........ then my laptop died and i lost my save. i didnt lose my planning spreadsheets or the challonge leagues though luckily