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Missed Suriano. Thanks @flyingcement

Bubba Jenkins, Michael Beard, Brody Teske, Seth Nevills, Jarod Verkleeren, Tony Negron off the top of my head.

I don't know. How many?

Kasak wrestled 141 at the start of the year. Lost to Bartlett at a first semester open.

Yeah, he had a real bad run on GIA for a while. Maybe someone did him a favor and got a hold of his phone and changed his password so he couldn't post anymore.

The field has been leveled? There are 172.5 rebuttals. The field will be leveled? Yeah, probably at some point.

That was great. Thanks for sharing.

I did no extrapolation, just rescoring. Who knows what a man of such limited stamina would have produced with double the matches? But that is what the per match score is for.

At least he isn't holding it upside down this time.

I just noticed that the other three guys in McCready's 1928 bracket were named Ralph. Without looking I am sure that is a record.

All the brackets 60 and over using your method. And by year, 2021 loses the title:

Pinfelled? Yes, Earl McCready was known to do that a time or two. Alas, he suffers from the lack of matches. Having wrestled only 8 matches in 3 tournaments, he has by far the fewest number of matches among the top scorers. In 1928 he only had to wrestle twice to be crowned champion of a four man bracket. But on a per match basis Earl is the top of the heap. To highlight the difference in eras, notice that the top 14 on a per match basis all started their career prior to 1956.

2019

Using the current method of scoring these are the Top 30 and ties: New to the top 30 this year: Aaron Brooks #10 and tied with Ed Ruth (was #125 prior to this year) Daton Fix #17 by virtue of five tournaments, as you can see he is 125th on a per tournament basis. Carter Starocci #27 (was #128 prior to this year) Also moving up: Vito Arujau was #230, is #51 (tied with Andre Metzger, Rick Bonomo, Mark Branch, and Troy Nickerson) Keegan O'Toole was #190, is #35 (tied with Jordan Oliver) New to the rankings this year: Trent Hidlay #157 with 65 points (Jared Lawrence, Tolly Thompson, Eric Voelker, Chrsi Campbell, Gary Breece, and Rex Peery) Greg Kerkvliet #121 with 69 points (tied with Doug Schwab) Parker Keckeisen #90 with 92 points (tied with Ross Flood, Carlton Haselrig, Mark Lieberman, Chris Pendleton, Travis Lee, and Michael Lightner) I know I will have my detractors here, but I also like to look at their scores in years 2 through 4. You will notice in the table above that when you sort by total you have to go all the way to #30 to find the only three year era wrestler, a little known kid named Dan Gable. In the table below, I also knocked out Gables' pigtail matches for this. Years 2 - 4

We were all predicting that 125 this year would be bedlam. And it was. Depending on which service you follow, there were 6 or 7 different #1's throughout the season. And the #1 seed, Braeden Davis, failed to AA. That has only happened five other times in the last 20 years. And it has only happened one other time since seeding was expanded to 16 in 2014. By almost any measure the bracket was pretty well busted. Four of the wrestlers seeded in the top 8 failed to AA (#1, #4, #6, #7). And the sum of the seeds that did AA was 78 (2+3+5+8+10+12+15+23). But that only makes it the fourth most busted bracket since 2014: For this I went conservative and used 17 as a plug number for the unseeded. Unsurprisingly, 2021 with all of its weirdness was the most busted year. edit: fixed year table

When he did that dance on Nolf and got pinned for his troubles...

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FYI, there is no longer a difference between a tech fall with and without back points. They are all worth 1.5 points now.

I think first place should be worth 10 times as much as anywhere between 9th and 12th place. If it is not you also have to compress the difference between first and second, first and third, etc. That kind of scoring compression has already happened multiple times over the years and I think we are in a good place there. For me the issue is as Goodale points out that bonus points in the consolation bracket are too high relative to advancement points.

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I will disagree with you on that one too. Keck never got close to a TD and only ever touched Brooks leg once or twice, gave up the riding time point, and even gave up a caution point. When is the last time you saw someone get cautioned three times in an NCAA final? That is the sign of a wrestler worried he is outmatched and so jumps the whistle.

Unknowable until you know the line ups.

I go back and forth on that one. Maybe Brooks felt some pressure from Hidlay and thought, "why take a chance? Cut him."

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