2012 Year in Review: PPV Awards

So, the final Pay-Per-View, TLC, is in the books. I have been keeping track of specific stats for Pay-Per-Views and I have my 2012 PPV awards to hand out.

Curtain Jerker of the Year

This Superstar was in the most opening matches of a PPV...

Dolph Ziggler and Sin Cara

Both of these Superstars won the award with four matches in the opener of a PPV. Tyson Kidd, Rey Mysterio, and Cody Rhodes were all in the running for this award with three. 

Main Eventer of the Year

This superstar was in the most main events during PPV's...

John Cena

Does this really surprise anybody? John Cena lead this award with nine main event matches. The next closest superstars, Big Show CM Punk, had only three main event spots and CM Punk was champion for every single one of those Pay-Per-Views. Only two of John Cena's main event spots were actually in WWE or World title matches. 

Poster Boy of the Year

This Superstar was on more Pay-Per-View posters than anybody else...

John Cena

John Cena was on three of the PPV posters. Brock Lesnar was in second place with two. 

Perfect Attendance Award

This superstar was in a match at all twelve PPV's during the course of the year...

Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan was at all 12 PPV's. His matches were: 

Royal Rumble: defeated Big Show and Mark Henry in a cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Elimination Chamber: defeated Santino Marella, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, Big Show, and Great Khali in a Elimination Chamber for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Wrestlemania XXVIII: Loss the World Heavyweight Championship to Sheamus.

Extreme Rules: Loss to Sheamus in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Over the Limit: Loss to CM Punk in a match for the WWE Championship.

No Way Out: Loss to CM Punk in Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship also involving Kane.

Money in the Bank: Loss to CM Punk in a No Disqualification Match fot the World Heavyweight Championship.

Summerslam: Defeated Kane.

Night of Champions: With Kane defeated Kofi Kingston and R-Truth to win the WWE Tag Team Championships.

Hell in a Cell: With Kane loss to Team Rhodes Scholars by disqualification.

Survivor Series: With Kane, Randy Orton, The Miz, and Kofi Kingston loss to Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barret, and Alberto Del Rio in a Survivor Series tag team elimination match.

TLC: With Kane and Ryback loss to The Shield

PPV Jobber Superstar of the Year

This superstar has loss more matches than anyone else on PPV. In the case of the tie, it goes to the superstar with the lowest win percentage. 

Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan wins his second award. Out of his twelve PPV matches, he has loss eight of them. Cody Rhodes and Big Show were both in second place for this award with seven losses.

PPV Jobber Diva of the Year

This diva has loss more matches than anyone else on PPV. In the case of the tie, it goes to the diva with the lowest win percentage.

Beth Phoenix

Beth Phoenix won this award with four losses. Eve Torres was in second place with three losses. 

PPV Diva of the Year

This diva has won  more PPV matches than any other diva over the course of the year. In the case of a tie the winner is the diva that has the higher win percentage.

Layla

Layla actually tied with Eve, but was lucky enough to be in one less match. In this case she loss two matches and Eve loss three. They both won four matches and Layla won the tie breaker putting Eve into second place for both Diva of the Year and Jobber Diva of the Year. 

PPV Superstar of the Year

This diva has won  more PPV matches than any other diva over the course of the year. In the case of a tie the winner is the diva that has the higher win percentage.

CM Punk

This award came down to CM Punk and Sheamus, two superstars who were champions for a majority of the year. CM Punk was able to take this award because he had ten PPV wins and Sheamus got second place with nine. 

This is the end of my PPV awards. I will be back at the beginning of 2013 to give my yearly awards. 

End of Year Review Idea

The end of 2012 is drawing near and I have gone back and forth on how I should do an end of the year column. My original plan was to do a generic one where I pick my superstar/diva/tag team of the year and who I think was a breakout star and who was underutilized, but I decided against that. After reading Lords of Pains new column, "The King of Stats" I decided that maybe a whole statistic based awards would be fun to do, especially since I am very interested in statistics. I will not be including superstars and divas in the same rankings so each of these will have their own award. Here are the awards I have decided on:

Superstar/Diva of the year: This superstar/diva has the highest win percentage of all their matches.
Jobber of the year: This superstar/diva has the lowest win percentage.
Workaholic: This superstar/diva had the most matches during the year.
Couch Potato: This superstar/diva had the least number of matches during the year.
Tag Team of the Year: These two superstars have the best overall win percentage. (I will combine their win/loss records for the year.)
Jobber Tag Team of the Year: These two superstars have the worst overall win percentage.

For a superstar to qualify, they must have at least ten matches during the year. I made this rule so that someone like The Undertaker cannot win Superstar of the year since he would have won 100% of his matches since he only wrestled in one match. All these win/loss records are based off of televised events or WWE web shows (RAW, Smackdown, NXT, Superstars, Saturday Morning Slam, The Main Event, and Pay Per Views). I will also include a list of every superstar/diva that has not met the 10 match limit.

I will also be including all of the information on each of the titles. (How many times the title changed hands and who held the titles and what dates they held them during the year.)

For the tag team awards, I am using every tag team that has wrestled for WWE this year. Altogether, the two must both have had ten matches during the year to qualify. This includes all tag teams from Air Bourne that were still around in January to Team Hell No that is more recent.

I will also be doing a Pay Per View awards section. To be eligible for the PPV awards you must have at least three PPV matches. Here are the award ideas I have for this:

Main Eventer of the Year: This superstar appeared in the most PPV main events.
Curtain Jerker of the Year: This superstar appeared in the most opening matches of a PPV.
PPV Superstar/Diva of the Year: This superstar/diva has won the most matches at a PPV.
PPV Jobber of the Year: This superstar/diva has loss the most matches at a PPV.
Perfect Attendance: This superstar/diva has had a match during every PPV of the year.

A note on the Royal Rumble and battle royals: If the Royal Rumble is the main event not every superstar will get a point for being in the main event. I am only going to consider it in their rankings if they were in the final four combatants left in the ring. Also, concerning Royal Rumbles and battle royals, if a superstar/diva is eliminated it does not count as a loss, but the superstar who does win will get a win added to their record.

Now for the greater picture. I want to have a ranking for every year during the modern/PPV era of the WWE. I have already started working on the 1985 rankings, which is the year of the first Wrestlemania. These are hard to do because it is hard to find every televised event, so forgive me if I miss a few here or there, but by using www.historyofwwe.com it is working out pretty well. Until the WWE has all big four PPV's I will not be including the PPV awards during the earlier rankings because there is not enough data.

What are your comments and ideas on this. Are there awards that you think I should add?