How To Use the Wrestling Cards Generator

When you go to the page on our site for the Wrestling Cards Generators, there is a brief explanation of what this is. Scroll down and below we'll find a grid of six wrestling promotion logos, like this:

If we click on the logo of the roster we'd like a Card from, it will take us to the Card Generator app for that promotion.

You might get a message "this app needs to wake up." If so, just give it some time and come back to it.

But let's say we've clicked the ROH app and it successfully opened, we'll see a page like this:

To the left of the screen is the "View" menu. We don't need that yet, so we can just get it out of our way. Hover over the View menu and a symbol like "<<" appears in the top right. Click that and the "View" menu goes away! Don't worry, the ">>" symbol will bring it back when we're ready!

When we came to the generator, it automatically made a card for Jay Briscoe. This was not out of tribute, but the way the drop-down menu is sorted. Click on the "Search a wrestler" menu to see all of our other options: the rest of the ROH roster sorted by # of matches

Now, let's say we wanted to see the Wrestler Card for someone else on the ROH roster besides Jay, we can just scroll till something catches our eye. But if we're looking for someone specific, that's a lot of names to search through! So let's put our cursor in the search bar, backspace Jay out, and start typing the first or last name of the performer we're looking for. So if we type "bry"... there's Bryan Danielson!

And, there you have it: a career analytics card for the American Dragon's career in Ring of Honor. Scroll down – there's a LOT! But if we want to save our Wrestler Card, we don't need to scroll and take a bunch of screen shots – just use one of the buttons between the Card and the drop-down menu: Download HTML or Generate PNG.

I've circled the "Download HTML" button in green ink. We select that button if we want to download some code that, when we open it later, will recreate just this Wrestler Card again in the web browser. But if we want an image file of our card, there are two options – if your browser is Chrome and you have or want to get the "Playwright" Chrome extension, you can just press the "Generate PNG" button (circled in red) and you'll download your file. But...

...But if you don't use the Chrome browser or don't have (or want to add) the Playwright Chrome extension, you'll get the error message you see in this image if you try to generate a PNG image file. But that's okay! Just download the HTML and use a free HTML to image converter. I used "Cloud Convert" and it worked great.

And there you have it! A career analytics Wrestler Card highlighting all of the CAGEMATCH statistics from Bryan Danielson's career! Long, huh? (actually that's only about 2/3s of it!) What does it all mean? That's for Arul to explain: check out his explainer post!

Now that we've covered that, let's return to that left menu, "View" that we hid at the beginning. Just click on the ">>" icon you should see at the top left of your screen to bring it back. We'll see that in addition to the Single Wrestler view we've been learning about, there is also a head-to-head comparison view, as well as a full-roster leaderboard option.

When you switch views, the drop-down menu does not maintain your choice, going back to the top of the list, so Wrestler A will be the performer with the most matches in the promotion and B will be the second most. Ironically, for ROH, this means brother vs brother!

So, let's say we want to look at Bryan Danielson once again. Just click on the "Wrestler A" drop-down search bar and find him again, and we get Bryan vs. Mark. While the two men have been opponents three times, let's select a more iconic foe for Danielson...

Just pull down the "Wrestler B" menu and find Danielson nemesis, Nigel McGuiness.

The head-to-head view features two kinds of stats. First there are a few stats about their series together, all of their matches against one another (if any). And then a table comparing the two men's overall metrics. The metric that outdoes the other is color-coded.

Finally, there is the "Leaderboard" view. If we go to Views and select this, we get a ranking of the top 15 in the ROH roster based on some metric. The default metric is "Best Worker" and you can see in the image, KENTA had the highest average match-quality score on CAGEMATCH. But Danielson was right behind, despite significantly more matches! (the "N" column is the number of matches.)

But there are five other metrics that have leaderboards available, just click on one of the other tabs to see. Here we have chosen "Top elevators" which is the wrestler who adds the most value to his opponents' quality. KENTA is #1 in ROH here, as well, and Dragon is #5, behind Low Ki and the Bucks.

The minimum sample size for the leaderboard is 20 ranked matches, except the one category that isn't based on matches... For "Best on the Mic" it's five ranked promos.

That covers just about everything you need to look at the stats available for any one of the promotions covered by a Wrestling Card Generator app. Now that you've explored Ring of Honor, if you want to look at another promotion, just go back to the Generator Links page and select one of the other logos. Enjoy exploring wrestling stats!