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All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. *-indicates event is believed to be eligible for a one-pound weight allowance Friday, January 3: Purdue at Kent State, 6:00 PM Pitt-Johnstown at Pittsburgh, 6:00 PM Cornell at Missouri, 7:00 PM (6:00 PM) Cleveland State at Ohio, 7:00 PM Air Force at Oklahoma State, 8:00 PM (7:00 PM) Saturday, January 4: American, Appalachian State, Army West Point, Bellarmine, Bloomsburg, Brown, Campbell, Chattanooga, Clarion, Davidson, Duke, Gardner-Webb, Little Rock, LIU, Morgan State, North Carolina, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Oklahoma, The Citadel, Virginia, Virginia Tech at Southern Scuffle, hosted by Chattanooga, 9:00 AM Bloomsburg, Edinboro at Bobby Kauffman Open, hosted by Edinboro, 10:00 AM West Virginia at Princeton, 7:00 PM California Baptist at Utah Valley, 8:00 PM (6:00 PM) Sunday, January 5: *American, Appalachian State, Army West Point, Bellarmine, Bloomsburg, Brown, Campbell, Chattanooga, Clarion, Davidson, Duke, Gardner-Webb, Little Rock, LIU, Morgan State, North Carolina, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Oklahoma, The Citadel, Virginia, Virginia Tech at Southern Scuffle, hosted by Chattanooga, 10:00 AM Binghamton vs. Maryland at Clifton Park, NY, 11:30 AM Columbia vs. Lock Haven at Clifton Park, NY, 11:30 AM Oregon State at Ohio State, 1:00 PM Binghamton vs. Lock Haven at Clifton Park, NY, 1:30 PM Columbia vs. Maryland at Clifton Park, NY, 1:30 PM Nebraska at Northern Iowa, 2:00 PM (1:00 PM) Binghamton vs. Columbia at Clifton Park, NY, 3:30 PM Lock Haven vs. Maryland at Clifton Park, NY, 3:30 PM

What a year this has been. So glad that we are able to have a wrestling season with some great wrestling.

Happy New Year!

I asked ChatGPT a question about wrestlers from the Lehigh Valley, and it gave me a response with its sources. I clicked on the sources to see where it was getting the info - and one of the sources was actually a post that I had made a year ago on this forum (LOL!)

I have Penn State tonight. Tomorrow, I have Texas, Ohio State and Georgia. Hopefully net year they will seed the bracket properly. The Buckeyes and the Ducks should be a great game.

also - i'm from PA so maybe a tick of bias but i think PSU can play with ND or GEO

My kid wore an Ohio State headgear his freshman year of HS and in January a ref dinged him for it.

You must be new to the internet.

D3

This will in no way settle the debate you two are having , but.... There were only three who AA'd at 197, then went up and AA'd at 285 since 1999. All three did better at 285. Kyle Snyder - 2nd at 197, 1st and 1st at 285 J.D. Bergman - 3rd and 4th at 197, 2nd at 285 Alan Gelogaev - 7th at 197, 3rd at 285 But the big caveat, and why this does not settle any debate, is that there are two categories missing: those who AA'd at 197 and then DNP'd at 285, and those who DNP'd at 197, then AA'd at 285.

In one sense the wrestlestat "algorithm" for advancement and placement is as simple as it gets. The top 16 guys score. No one else scores. The #1 seed gets 20, the #2 gets 16, etc. But then things get weird at the margin. Ohio State's #7 seed, Carson Kharchla, is assumed to score 9 advancement and placement points, but PSU's Davis and OSU's Amine, both #7, are assumed to score 6.5. How does that work? Well since the most advancement and placement points possible for 7th is 7.5 it does not work in the case of Kharchla. We have probably found a bug in this case. There is also the issue of the guaranteed advancement point for either the #32 or #33 wrestler. They are missing that. But I have a problem with this binary approach of assuming the #1 seed will always win, the #2 seed will always fall in the final, etc. Everyone makes that assumption. Flo, Intermat, Wrestlestat, WIN, etc. Everyone. And it is a bad assumption. Sometimes you get a Braeden Davis at #1, and sometimes you get a Cody Brewer at #13. That has to be accounted for. To do that you have to take a probabilistic approach. But no one does. Well, someone does. As for bonus points, I have no idea how they are determining those at the individual wrestler level. There does not seem to be much of a seed component to the values produced, so it must rely heavily on the individual wrestler results. Perhaps it is tied to bonus percentage. Got me. But they are also missing the important caveat that if a wrestler fails to score an advancement or placement point then they will also fail to score a bonus point. That is just another oversight.

They wouldn't understand government spending

i have zero to do with the boards. if i gave a sh!t, you would have been banned long ago. you're one of the least valuable posters here. you, Red Viking, and Trip are a drain. vapid. makes the boards worse. you guys got any dems that can make a valid point? i'd be all for it.

buzz off, bird brain. you make an ass of yourself every time you post. how could i make 'personal attacks' when i literally have no idea who any of you are or anything about you? not to mention i just dont care enough. the worst i can be accused of is 'you're an idiot/moron/expletive' generic (opposite of personal) barbs based on posting history. and based on posting history, you contribute nothing. if you left, no one would miss a beat.

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how is this any less offensive than any racist, sexist, insert-any-ist comment? attacking something you can't control. not that i gaf. but at least you could have called me fat instead. would make it less hypocritical of someone from 'the party of tolerance and unity' lotta hate in your heart. and emptiness in your skull.

And the thought process of a 10 year old

At least I've got hair and am taller than 5'5.

We can fight this battle together until the end.

Rumor has it the Brands Brothers, are bringing Nelson to work with wrestlers on violations. Oh wait he said he didn’t know about any of the meetings on code of conduct.

A new SundayMoringComic Strips w/Jombo for every day, how nice would that be. Though... wouldn't it lack the originality that ILLINIWrestlingBlog brings to the table? D3

Sir. That’s a Joe Biden quote. Please quote it for posterity.

This is good no? Some of us are getting old and can't remember what we posted last week much less last year. Sounds like ChatGPT will allow us to have conversations with our younger selfs.

thanks for making my point, Harry and Lloyd

hillary literally took a timeout during a live debate vs. trump b/c she sh!t herself. and you still voted for her. but now....Trump