Hodge Winners By Dominance

[Cornell Kevin]

3 hours ago, jchapman said:

When you say Simpson, do you mean Nick Ackerman?

yes 

[Wrestleknownothing]

Thank you to @jross and @Cornell Kevin for plugging holes in my data.

Here is the updated, corrected version of most dominant Hodge winners of all time. With the new data Zain Retherford hangs on to the title, but Stephen Neal knocks Ben Askren and Cael Sanderson down a peg.

Speaking of Retherford.

His 2016 dominance score of 5.03 was higher than eventual Hodge winner, Alex Dieringer's, score of 4.76. That is the last time the Hodge winner did not have the highest dominance score.

Though it had happened prior to 2016. In 2011, Jordan Burroughs won with a dominance score of 4.61, which was only third best among finalists. Jordan Oliver (4.79) and Anthony Robles (4.64) each had higher scores.

 

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Thank you to @jross and @Cornell Kevin for plugging holes in my data.

Here is the updated, corrected version of most dominant Hodge winners of all time. With the new data Zain Retherford hangs on to the title, but Stephen Neal knocks Ben Askren and Cael Sanderson down a peg.

Speaking of Retherford.

His 2016 dominance score of 5.03 was higher than eventual Hodge winner, Alex Dieringer's, score of 4.76. That is the last time the Hodge winner did not have the highest dominance score.

Though it had happened prior to 2016. In 2011, Jordan Burroughs won with a dominance score of 4.61, which was only third best among finalists. Jordan Oliver (4.79) and Anthony Robles (4.64) each had higher scores.

 

If you calculated Hodges dominance score what would it be?  

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Thank you to @jross and @Cornell Kevin for plugging holes in my data.

Here is the updated, corrected version of most dominant Hodge winners of all time. With the new data Zain Retherford hangs on to the title, but Stephen Neal knocks Ben Askren and Cael Sanderson down a peg.

Speaking of Retherford.

His 2016 dominance score of 5.03 was higher than eventual Hodge winner, Alex Dieringer's, score of 4.76. That is the last time the Hodge winner did not have the highest dominance score.

Though it had happened prior to 2016. In 2011, Jordan Burroughs won with a dominance score of 4.61, which was only third best among finalists. Jordan Oliver (4.79) and Anthony Robles (4.64) each had higher scores.

 

Spencer Lee should get a special award for a perfect 10.0.   Even the pastrybon will support me on this.  

[Wrestleknownothing]

4 minutes ago, ionel said:

If you calculated Hodges dominance score what would it be?  

Good question.

His 1957 campaign was unparalleled. But 2017 Retherford pips him the other two years.

[ionel]

13 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Good question.

His 1957 campaign was unparalleled. But 2017 Retherford pips him the other two years.

His avg career #s beat everyone but Zain individual year high.  His 1957 # show why it's the Hodge award not the Retherford award. 

Edited April 10 by ionel

[Wrestleknownothing]

5 minutes ago, ionel said:

His avg career #s beat everyone but Zain individual year high.  His 1957 # show why it's the Hodge award not the Rutherford award. 

Who is Rutherford? And why would anyone name a wrestling award after him?

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Who is Rutherford? And why would anyone name a wrestling award after him?

What are you talking about?  Read my post above.  But since you bring it up ... ruther rether what's the difference? 

Edited April 10 by ionel

[Wrestleknownothing]

Just now, ionel said:

What are you talking about?  Read my post above.  But since you bring it up ... ruther rether what's the difference? 

The internet never forgets, or forgives. It is a brutish wasteland of typos.

[ionel]

5 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

The internet never forgets, or forgives. It is a brutish wasteland of typos.

It's like an elephant with unlimited RAM.  

[Yellow_Medal]

Take the exact rankings with a grain of salt. Also consider this a cry for help.
I cannot find TF, or MD stats for 1999 Stephen Neal, 2001 Nick Ackerman, 2004 Emmett Wilson, 2007 Ben Askren, or 2010 Jayson Ness. Their dominance scores are higher than what I have hear, as a result. Any help with filling in the missing pieces would be appreciated.
I also need breakdowns between TF and MD for 1995 TJ Jaworsky, 1998 Mark Ironside, and 2013 Kyle Dake. For these I know how many combined TF/MD they had, but not the split between TF and MD. I just used a 50/50 split.
The net result is that Stephen Neal, and 2007 Ben Askren will be at or near the top if the data can be found.

I wish I had stats for Emmett Wilson. My school wrestled MSU-Northern a few times the year he won and he was absolutely special to watch. It’s a shame he wasn’t D1. Here’s the WIN article on his hodge

https://www.win-magazine.com/win-awards/hodge-trophy/emmett-willson-2004-hodge-trophy-winner/

[Wrestleknownothing]

14 hours ago, Yellow_Medal said:

I wish I had stats for Emmett Wilson. My school wrestled MSU-Northern a few times the year he won and he was absolutely special to watch. It’s a shame he wasn’t D1. Here’s the WIN article on his hodge

https://www.win-magazine.com/win-awards/hodge-trophy/emmett-willson-2004-hodge-trophy-winner/

The good news is that @Cornell Kevin does have the stats for Emmet Wilson.

In 2004 he was 50-0 with 24 pinfalls, 10 tech falls, 8 majors and only 8 decisions. His was one of only 17 seasons to hit the 5.0 mark in the Hodge era. He had the most matches of any of the 17, which makes it that much more impressive.

[jross]

@Cornell Kevin deserves the Hodge for dominating these impossible to find stats.

[Gene Mills Fan]

Gene Mills posted a record at Syracuse, including victories in his last 77 matches. He earned wins in 24 of the last 25 by pin.

[Wrestleknownothing]

29 minutes ago, Gene Mills Fan said:

Gene Mills posted a record at Syracuse, including victories in his last 77 matches. He earned wins in 24 of the last 25 by pin.

do you know what his 1981 stats were?

[Yellow_Medal]

The good news is that [mention=900]Cornell Kevin[/mention] does have the stats for Emmet Wilson.
In 2004 he was 50-0 with 24 pinfalls, 10 tech falls, 8 majors and only 8 decisions. His was one of only 17 seasons to hit the 5.0 mark in the Hodge era. He had the most matches of any of the 17, which makes it that much more impressive.

Nice! Way to go Kevin! That is indeed impressive of Wilson. He DOMINATED our heavyweight, who was very good in his own right. Thanks for putting this list together WKN

[Gene Mills Fan]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

do you know what his 1981 stats were?

been searching no but   1981 37-0   1979 40-0

when he pinned the Lehigh guy in the EIWA final he was up twenty points or something

Edited Friday at 04:30 PM by Gene Mills Fan

[Cornell Kevin]

Thx guys, glad I could help. I really have been appreciative of all the great stats and conversation in these forums on intermat. Only wish  would have started sooner!  

[Cornell Kevin]

On 4/10/2025 at 5:41 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Thank you to @jross and @Cornell Kevin for plugging holes in my data.

Here is the updated, corrected version of most dominant Hodge winners of all time. With the new data Zain Retherford hangs on to the title, but Stephen Neal knocks Ben Askren and Cael Sanderson down a peg.

Speaking of Retherford.

His 2016 dominance score of 5.03 was higher than eventual Hodge winner, Alex Dieringer's, score of 4.76. That is the last time the Hodge winner did not have the highest dominance score.

Though it had happened prior to 2016. In 2011, Jordan Burroughs won with a dominance score of 4.61, which was only third best among finalists. Jordan Oliver (4.79) and Anthony Robles (4.64) each had higher scores.

 

This is incredible, thank you! 

[Cornell Kevin]

Hey guys I didn’t realize that I had the link to the spreadsheet locked my bad. I made it now so where anyone with the link can open it so feel free to check it out. I will add the dominance score in as well. 

 

The link: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12wFsDSZc3ZHi3V-gM7_yNETy1S9KgZV6kmb4zyXe7vI/edit?usp=drivesdk

 

if anyone can’t get in let me know 

[Wrestleknownothing]

So....

Remember when I said to take the exact rankings with a grain of salt? Turns out that was good advice.

I committed a cardinal sin. I trusted Wikipedia. Well, the results they have for Cael Sanderson are a hot mess. Instead I should trust @Cornell Kevin.

I have spent some time putting together what I now think are accurate match by match results, including the matches that were not official. During Sanderson's four non-redshirt years wrestling D1 he won 159 straight official matches and 170 straight total matches.

Sanderson's 2002 dominance score of 5.5 moves to number 2 (number 1 among Hodge winners) on the list, ahead of 2017 Zain Retherford (5.484), but still behind 1957 Dan Hodge (5.813).

[jross]

What/why is the diff in dom scores between yours and Kevin?  Like with 2017 Zain?

[Wrestleknownothing]

28 minutes ago, jross said:

What/why is the diff in dom scores between yours and Kevin?  Like with 2017 Zain?

I have Zain at 1 inj/def/for and 2 decisions. Kevin has it as 3 decisions.

[okokzach]

Awesome work! Not the focus of the thread but do you happen to know how many undefeated 3-timers there were like Dan Hodge and Yojiro Uetake?

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

Stephen Neal was pretty good, for all those guys out there who said Gable would major him about a month ago.