2025 Most Chalk / Most Busted

[Wrestleknownothing]

In spite of the fact that it ended with the biggest upset of the tournament, 285 was the most chalk weight.

The sum of absolute deviations from seed was 77, just ahead of 125 at 81.5.

This also made the heavies the second most chalk weight since the 33 seed era began. Only 165 in 2019 was more chalk.

 

At the other end of the spectrum 141 was the most busted bracket this year (but only sixth most in the 33 seed era).

A lot of the "bust" came from five of nine guys seeded to go 0-2 finishing with win(s), and three higher seeded wrestlers doing the opposite.

[dragit]

Not sure if you should be canonized or seek help.

[Wrestleknownothing]

27 minutes ago, dragit said:

Not sure if you should be canonized or seek help.

This whole thing has been a cry for help.

[wrestle87]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

This whole thing has been a cry for help.

"Hi I'm Wrestlingknownothing...and I'm an excel-aholic"

[From a big crowd] "Hi wrestlingknownothing..."

[Wrestleknownothing]

29 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

"Hi I'm Wrestlingknownothing...and I'm an excel-aholic"

[From a big crowd] "Hi wrestlingknownothing..."

It's worse than that. Excel was just the gateway drug.

[SocraTease]

2 hours ago, dragit said:

Not sure if you should be canonized or seek help.

Apparently, there is an opening at the Papacy in Rome.  Not sure what the equivalent of that is for wrestling.  

[wrestle87]

2 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It's worse than that. Excel was just the gateway drug.

Not the hero we wanted, but the hero we needed

[Dark Energy]

Did you mean 157 in 2019 was more chalk?  Thinking so.

good stuff

[BloodRound]

Also saw this on the Rutgers forum today...

 

How many forums have you posted this to?

[Wrestleknownothing]

7 minutes ago, Dark Energy said:

Did you mean 157 in 2019 was more chalk?  Thinking so.

good stuff

oops

[Wrestleknownothing]

Just now, BloodRound said:

Also saw this on the Rutgers forum today...

 

How many forums have you posted this to?

six (two PSU forums, Iowa, Oklahoma State, Rutgers, and here)

[BloodRound]

1 minute ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

six (two PSU forums, Iowa, Oklahoma State, Rutgers, and here)

productive morning!

[Illinois Bias]

Is there somewhere to easily extract this data, or are you doing it manually? 

[Wrestleknownothing]

15 minutes ago, Illinois Bias said:

Is there somewhere to easily extract this data, or are you doing it manually? 

I have not found a good source for scraping NCAA results, so that is all manual. When I do my expected points and AA's I scrape the rankings from Intermat, Flo and WrestleStat. Most everything else is derived data.

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, BloodRound said:

productive morning!

Depends on who you ask.

One reason I did that was to get a sense of traffic on the different sites. In the 14 hours since I posted this the numbers look like this:

Intermat - 668 views
HVI (PSU) - 331
On3 (PSU) - 174
HR (Iowa) - 564
34 and Counting (OK ST) - 207
Rutgers - 254

[2001Hokie]

Sucks that Sam Latona played a part in the 141 bust!  Really hate the way he went out with his hand injury.  He was such a great representative of VT for his career and deserved a better potential ending.