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I'm ripping this from the F4O forum, from a poster named FinePlum. Interesting stats about AEW lately.

I'll go to the clickbait stat first to get it out of the way (And which I've added the last). I'll leave it without comments: Number of unique people in matches (excl. valets/managers/bodyguards/lumberjacks) in Q1 2021: AEW (Dynamite - 2h per week): 92 people WWE (Raw+Smackdown - 5h per week): 78 people Now, my main goal was to compare AEW booking vs the same period one year ago, so I've taken Q1 2020 vs Q1 2021. The idea came from the last week ratings discussion. So that's when I started digging. Then Dave had mentioned the person who started counting people on last Dynamite and that number was ridiculed by some. Initially, I've counted only wrestlers only participating in matches. Later on I've added "valets..." separately. Yesterday on WOL Bryan said that he doesn't think that the booking has changed vs a year ago. Well, numbers seem to disagree: Dynamite Q1 2020 - Q1 2021 Number of unique people in matches (excl. valets): 62 - 92 (48% growth) Average number of valets/managers/lumberjacks per match: 0.84 - 1.25 (49% growth) Number of matches per episode: 4.8 - 5.8 Average match length: 11:06 - 9:46 The latter two stats are more trivia. Lastly, the reason it took me so long is because I wanted to compare the focus time on each wrestler. And I am sorry that it took me this long because there were several topics popping up on AEW booking and now I've added yet another one. Focus time is how much time is devoted to a certain wrestler in a match. For example, a match between two wrestlers lasting 10 minutes will have focus time of 10 minutes per each of wrestler. Every next wrestler added to the match bites some part of that time, because I don't believe being featured in 1-on-1 match for 10 minutes and featured in Battle Royal for 10 minutes have the same exposure and connection with the audience. So, focus time = match length / (number of wrestlers / 2). For example, 6 man tag of 21 minutes will have a focus time of 7 minutes per wrestler. Top-20 wrestlers by focus time. Dynamite Q1 2020 (66% of total focus time): Kenny Omega 95:58 PAC 78:14 Sammy Guevara 74:40 Cody 73:51 Jon Moxley 66:45 Darby Allin 52:56 Adam Page 48:06 Trent 46:22 Ortiz 42:52 MJF 38:28 Chuck Taylor 35:20 Jungle Boy 34:55 Kip Sabian 33:57 Santana 33:30 Dustin Rhodes 32:00 Nyla Rose 31:45 Rey Fenix 31:11 Pentagon Jr. 31:11 Kris Statlander 31:06 Riho 30:19 Dynamite Q1 2021 (51% of total focus time): Rey Fenix 75:01 Britt Baker 53:42 Kenny Omega 51:32 Darby Allin 50:08 Lance Archer 49:29 Cody 48:16 Thunder Rosa 41:41 Nyla Rose 41:01 Jon Moxley 38:38 Eddie Kingston 36:29 Adam Page 34:00 Matt Jackson 33:21 Matt Sydal 32:04 Dax Harwood 31:23 Jungle Boy 29:53 John Silver 26:43 Isiah Kassidy 24:30 Serena Deeb 23:30 Tay Conti 21:39 Karl Anderson 20:55 Notable observations: Top-20 wrestlers are now getting only half of the time, year ago it was two thirds Women are now getting more time: Britt Baker is #2, 5 women in top-20 vs 3 last year Kenny Omega and Moxley lost almost 50% of their focus time, being feature in multiple multimen matches Sammy Guevara has lost the most: last year he was #3, now he is #70 Jungle Boy is featured less than he was a year ago Adam Page is featured less than he was a year ago Karl Anderson is tied #20 with Doc Gallows and they are not even AEW talent Conclusions? I think it proves the general feeling that AEWs booking is less focused now with less focus on the top stars. I didn't compare amount of post-match beatdowns, but I guess this year is far ahead in that regard as well.