[molson]

When everyone wrestles 100+ times a year, and they only wrestler other main roster guys, everybody is going to lose a lot except for the very top protected guys. I don't think it's statistically possible to have more than 10 guys winning the vast majority of their matches.

I read many more complaints about guys losing too much than winning too much. But for every win, there has to be a loss. There's just SO many losses over a year to distribute on the roster. People complain about "50/50" booking, so does that mean there should be more losses distributed to the bottom, and more wins given to the top guys? Guys like Neville, Ziggler, and Jericho are kind of semi-protected now because they don't have to lose ALL the time, but if they didn't get occasional wins, they'd be total jobbers. I think a well-balanced roster needs some guys like that - who will win 1 out of 3 against AJ Styles or Kevin Owens instead of 0 out of 3.

Promotions used to get around this numbers problem with jobber squash matches and more roster fluidity. Both of which are taboo now for some reason. Jobber squashes can be fun and they increase everyone's win %. And when guys leave the company more often (usually taking losing records with them), new guys can come in without that history of losing on TV and win most of their matches for a while. Jobber squashes and roster fluidity create the illusion that your current roster guys win more often than they lose. But when it's basically the same roster, year after year, and everyone has lost dozens and dozens of times on TV (or more), and more than half your roster necessarily loses most of their matches (because of math), everybody is less of a star.

Edit: And I don't think any promotion could stay fresh with the WWE's schedule and static roster. If the stars of New Japan or Ring of Honor all wrestled 100+ times on TV a year, necessarily against the same opponents over and over again, year after year (instead of the new guys that those promotions bring in for tours), it'd get stale at some point. Especially if they didn't do any "50/50" booking and the same guys won every match.