FOURTH annual themat.com Memorial/ Intermat Invitational NCAA Fantasy wrestling league!

[lu_alum]

  On 3/23/2025 at 2:35 AM, MizzouFan01 said:

Huge thanks to Vincent Robinson and his championship. He single handedly kept me from being dropped to the JV division. @lu_alum believe I should have 62 points overall. 

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Not so sure about that, @MizzouFan01.  @nhs67 is already in the JV division.

[nhs67]

  On 3/23/2025 at 2:40 AM, lu_alum said:

Not so sure about that, @MizzouFan01.  @nhs67 is already in the JV division.

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I'll wreak havoc in the JV league twicey.

Jokes aside, I was going to suggest relegating bottom five and promoting top two to make two twelve man leagues next year.

[lu_alum]

  On 3/23/2025 at 2:46 AM, nhs67 said:

I'll wreak havoc in the JV league twicey.

Jokes aside, I was going to suggest relegating bottom five and promoting top two to make two twelve man leagues next year.

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After four years, I think this thing is beginning to pick up more interest.  Suggest we start putting reminders out prior to conference tourneys next year and see how many folks show interest.  As long as we get the entries in early, I see no reason why we couldn't do 2-3 leagues.  I've got the mechanics on my end setup to the point it is pretty simple.  The only challenge is finding time to conduct the drafts.

[nhs67]

  On 3/23/2025 at 2:50 AM, lu_alum said:

After four years, I think this thing is beginning to pick up more interest.  Suggest we start putting reminders out prior to conference tourneys next year and see how many folks show interest.  As long as we get the entries in early, I see no reason why we couldn't do 2-3 leagues.  I've got the mechanics on my end setup to the point it is pretty simple.  The only challenge is finding time to conduct the drafts.

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Preliminarily, I suggest we set a day aside (me/you/Vak/whoever else can help) and do Noon, 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM if we do three.

The JV league took 1H22M from start to last pick ler my timer.

[jajensen09]

Who won

[Kov88]

  On 3/23/2025 at 2:46 AM, nhs67 said:

I was going to suggest relegating bottom five and promoting top two to make two twelve man leagues next year.

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Well there was three people who played in both leagues. So wouldn’t it be a total of 22 people (assuming only the same people play), for a total of 11 people  in each league?

[MPhillips]

  On 3/23/2025 at 3:00 PM, jajensen09 said:

Who won

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It's in the thread...

[Kov88]

  On 3/23/2025 at 3:00 PM, jajensen09 said:

Who won

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You got second, it was a tight race 

[nhs67]

  On 3/23/2025 at 3:09 PM, Kov88 said:

Well there was three people who played in both leagues. So wouldn’t it be a total of 22 people (assuming only the same people play), for a total of 11 people  in each league?

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As @lu_alumsaid, we can promote it a bit better in-season so we can expand a bit.

[nhs67]

  On 3/23/2025 at 3:00 PM, jajensen09 said:

Who won

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I will say that your 2nd place effort is impressive with the technological issues you had due to that blizzard.

[lu_alum]

  On 3/23/2025 at 3:09 PM, Kov88 said:

Well there was three people who played in both leagues. So wouldn’t it be a total of 22 people (assuming only the same people play), for a total of 11 people  in each league?

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We had 22 this time, but this was the first time @VakAttack began promoting it prior to the conference tournaments.  The first few years we spun it up after conference tourneys.  There's always a little give and take amongst the group, but we increased by seven players this year.  I could see ~30 total players being the sweet spot for the annual event.  Who knows?  I'm just tossing out ideas.

In comparing the two events, I prefer the 15-person contest the Premier League offered.  It gets significantly more difficult to make draft picks once you've gone through the first 7-8 rounds.  Drafting for the Champion League didn't seem to be as much a struggle, as there were still many undrafted AA candidates available at the end.  

Here's a comparison of the two drafts:

Premier League:

Champion League:

[Perry]

Was fun as always! Thanks for the time and effort managing this. 

[VakAttack]

Everybody should be paid except @jajensen09.  Jensen, do you want me to pay to the account that sent me the money on your behalf?

[lu_alum]

Did a little more investigation regarding the challenges of a 15 v 10 person league.  Here is a comparison of undrafted seeds at the conclusion of each group.  Green shading to highlight pre-tourney R12 seeds. I show down to the 24th seed, as at least 24 guys in each bracket score points.

[Cornell Kevin]

thanks for putting together the second tournament alllowing some of us in on the action! Much appreciated! 

[jajensen09]

  On 3/23/2025 at 4:25 PM, VakAttack said:

Everybody should be paid except @jajensen09.  Jensen, do you want me to pay to the account that sent me the money on your behalf?

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Yes! Mike-johnson-09. Thank you for everything!

[VakAttack]

  On 3/23/2025 at 6:23 PM, jajensen09 said:

Yes! Mike-johnson-09. Thank you for everything!

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Got it.  Everybody should be paid.