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Gary Gensler has been very anti-crypto as the head of the SEC. That is about to change. Not Gensler's view of crypto, but the SEC's approach to regulating it. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/sec-chair-gensler-will-step-down-jan-20-making-way-for-trump-replacement.html

2019 Freshman 2020 Let's not talk about it 2021 Free year 2022 Junior 2023 Finding himself redshirt (it is there, but you have to read between the lines) 2024 Oh yeah, I am "trying" out for the Olympics redshirt. I can still do that after the fact, right? Then, yeah. 2025 My first love has always, been will always be, WWE, NFL, MMA, interpretive dance, NCAA wrestling.

I wouldn't say hold my beer, necessarily, but I would put them second. From a points perspective Their high low range is about 16, whereas OSU's is about 23. But given how Cornell outperformed their seeds last year, you cannot discount them for the podium even though the rankings have them in the five (Wrestlestat) to nine slot (Flo).

When I brought up record turnover in Trump's last administration I was told this time he had a plan. Perhaps he needs to check in with Pyles on plans development.

Stay safe @mspart

Would anyone be surprised if the My Pillow guy is the replacement nominee?

Wrestlestat's team scores alog underestimate for 7 - 33 and overestimate for 1-6. Since Minnesota has a 9 of 10 wrestlers in the 7 - 33 range the wrestlestat algo will always be conservative.

I am surprised that with the addition of Steveson more people are not piling on the Minnesota bandwagon.

The consensus in the podium poll is that Ohio State will be on it. But when I look at the ranking services (Intermat, Flo, Wrestlestat) there is anything but consensus. Ohio State is probably the team with the least amount of agreement. Bouzakis at 133 (High to Low Diff of 6), Gallagher at 157 (HLD 8), Kharchla at 174 (HLD 6), Geog at 197 (HLD 10), and especially Sasso at 165 (HLD 9) have some pretty wide ranges of opinion. For Sasso the difference in expected point scoring potential between 2/3 and 11 is something like 9-12 points. Flo and Wrestlestat's rankings seem high on Sasso given all that has happened. Geog had a rough end to last year and already has a lose this year, so who knows. And with Kharchla yet to wrestle after coming off injury he is another who knows. To me Ohio State is the most intriguing team this year.

Nothing really head scratching about them when you consider we have done the same thing two elections in a row, elected an old man with diminishing mental capacity. This one happens to like watching Fox News late at night so it is not particularly surprising that he will rely on Fox News personalities and the subjects of Fox News stories. Disappointing, yes. Surprising, no.

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No, she doesn't.

Hmmm. 82 votes so far. Someone didn't follow instructions.

BTW wrestlestat agrees with you on 5 out of 6. The only difference is that they have Josh Bar starting for PSU at 197.

As I have told many who have tried, "I don't do scripts". Whatever comes out, comes out. Damn the torpedoes.

I can't do all of Jon's work for him. But even with that data point he still can trump Buchanan, Cardenas, and Elam with his lone title. That said, if we are talking predictions then I think 4 is about right based on my oft repeated belief that no one gets better at wrestling by not wrestling.

Ladbroke's would have already paid off any first place bets.

Thank you for replying, Jon. I 100% agree with both of your points. There is zero doubt that Steveson has a significantly better resume than Ferrari. And the situations are similar, but different. But I am arguing Steveson vs his field and Ferrari vs his field, rather than Steveson vs Ferrari. At the same time that Steveson is significantly more accomplished than Ferrari, Steveson's field is also significantly more accomplished than Ferrari's. And Ferrari is 2-0 against the presumptive #1 in his field. I am also arguing that you should not discount Ferrari's achievements because of their age if you do not do the same with Steveson. As for their respective fields you should not effectively give more credit to Ferrari's field for having participated in two or more tournaments without also giving more credit to Steveson's field which has one champion in it. Don't get me wrong, this is similar to a high school debate. Someone gets assigned the pro and someone gets assigned the con. I am simply making the con argument because someone asked the question about Alirez vs Mendez. I do not have strong feelings either way, but I do enjoy the debate. I also obviously enjoy that you do these rankings, given how much I create data off of them. So thank you for that. And finally, I do not get too emotionally invested in the rankings because in the end it all gets settled rather definitively and satisfactorily.

Ahh, a write in candidate. I love it. I had ASU in 16th position and I arbitrarily cut my list off at 2 - 13.

Too much PSU content on these boards (said the PSU fan), so screw those guys. This is about:

Yes, they even retroactively gave Iowa State a fourth place trophy.

Is it confirmed he was offered elsewhere? Or did he just go to Minnesota and ask for what they could afford?

Like last year the race for second, third, and fourth looks very tight. And very volatile. Based on current Intermat rankings I have it as Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma State with Minnesota just missing out (by 0.1). Last year based on seeds, NC State was the prohibitive favorite to run away with second place. Instead they had the worst tournament of any team and wound up tied for 11th. Meanwhile, Cornell looked to be in a dogfight with Lehigh for the last podium spot. Cornell outperformed and finished 2nd, while Lehigh had the second worst tournament and finished 15th. So who ya got? Pick three.

We are supposedly getting two more years of Ferrari after this.

Flo and Intermat still have a number of disagreements on who should be/is the starter at a number of slots. I have not done the research to see who is right. But I know a few off the top of my head. Daniel Cardenas is redshirting at Stanford. And they are both just guessing at 197 for PSU. Can anyone else fill in the gaps? There are also a number of wrestlers where there is consensus on who is starting, but a big difference of opinion on where they should be ranked. The table is sorted from largest to smallest difference (Flo minus Intermat) and filtered to include only those where the absolute value of the difference is seven or more.