Visualizing the Elite combines two things I really enjoy: professional wrestling and data analytics. The motivation behind this project is to utilize match data to provide an overview of things like how your favorite wrestlers are performing in terms of wins and losses, how often wrestlers are used on specific programs, and how wrestlers are being featured in in-ring competitions. The interactive dashboards can be used to enable users to explore the rankings and statistics among wrestlers. The analytical platform can be used to assist in developing storylines among wrestlers.

Version 1.0 was released on Friday, Feb 28th, in preparation for the AEW Revolution Pay Per View event, which was held on Saturday, Feb 29th in Chicago, Illinois. It provided a data-centric analysis of AEW matches leading up to the event along with some interesting statistics and findings from AEW history. The archived page can be found here.

This is an on-going effort and the page will be updated weekly as more AEW events occur and data becomes available.
The current database includes matches from May 25th, 2019 to present.

The following interactive chart shows the win/loss records for all the wrestlers from all AEW events within the selected timeframe. Note that all matches aired on Pay Per View events, Dynamite, and Dark are counted in the data. This includes unsanctioned matches, battles royal, and unofficial matches. Singles matches are classified as one-on-one matches involving at most two wrestlers. Tag Team matches are classified as two-on-two matches involving at most four wrestlers. Others include all other matches that are not Singles or Tag Team matches.

How to use the chart:

• By default, the chart shows the records since January, 2021. Use the slider to choose a different timeframe and look at previous records.
• Filter results by event show (PPV, Dynamite, Dark).
• Filter results by singles, tag team, others, or all matches.
• Sort results by total wins, total losses, or total number of matches.

This chart identifies key players in AEW, along with up-and-coming wrestlers, enhancement talents, and occasional featured wrestlers. It can be used to answer questions like: Who has never been in a singles match this year/all-time? Which wrestlers with similar win/loss stats would be interesting to go head to head with?

How to use the chart:

• By default, the chart shows the records since January, 2021. Use the slider to choose a different timeframe.
• Filter results by event show (PPV, Dynamite, Dark).
• Sort results by total matches, total singles matches, total tag team matches, or total other matches.

This chart displays all AEW matches sorted by the length of the match. Matches with missing match times were excluded from the analysis. The longest matches tend to be pay-per-view headlining matches with a few exceptions.

How to use the chart:

• Use the slider to choose a different timeframe.
• Filter results by event show (PPV, Dynamite, Dark).
• Filter results by singles, tag team, others, or all matches.
• Filter results by event title.
• Hover over the bar to see the date and event where the match occured along with the match duration.

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This chart shows which wrestlers are given the most time for matches.

How to use the chart:

• Use the slider to choose a different timeframe.
• Filter results by event show (PPV, Dynamite, Dark).
• Filter results by singles, tag team, others, or all matches.
• Hover over the bar to see the wrestler's average match duration (in seconds), total number of matches, and total match time.

AEW's Dynamite debuted on the TNT network on October 2, 2019. Since then, AEW and WWE's NXT have been battling for viewership Wednesday nights with Dynamite airing on TNT and NXT airing on USA Network. While it is debatable how relevant the Nielson ratings are as a performance indicator, there is still interest in comparing the viewership and Nielson ratings between WWE NXT and AEW Dynamite.

Ratings data obtained from ShowBuzzDaily
Note that AEW Dynamite did not air on December 25, 2019.

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Data was retrieved from Cagematch The Internet Wrestling Database. The scraping was performed using Python and Beautiful Soup. The data was then written to JSON files and imported into Tableau for analysis.

All matches aired on Pay Per View events, Dynamite, and Dark are counted in the data. This includes unsanctioned matches, battles royal, and unofficial matches. Singles matches are classified as one-on-one matches involving at most two wrestlers. Tag Team matches are classified as two-on-two matches involving at most four wrestlers. Others include all other matches that are not Singles or Tag Team matches, such as three-way or four-way matches, battles royal, handicap matches, etc. The wrestlers are ranked by total number of wins. Note that this differs from how AEW officially computes their rankings.