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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.

Maybe he can be the answer to your question, @Pinnacle

If that really is the issue, why is Musk not suing the Anti-Defamation League or GLAAD, who have said the same? He is going after Media Matter purely as a distraction. They are small, non-sympathetic, and easy to pick on.

Your understanding of the proxy process is quaint. BlackRock owns something like 7% of every company. And they have NEVER been involved in a proxy fight. And they never will. They are fiduciaries. They must vote for their clients good, not for their own beliefs. BlackRock cannot decide to invest more heavily in (or divest from ) a company. BackRock's 25 largest active equity funds have $78 billion in AUM. Their 25 largest passive funds have $1.75 trillion. With 95% of their equity assets following indexes, they have virtually no discretion. While his words may sound like coercion to you, they do not to CEO's who know that investment decisions are not theirs to make. He is talking about pay at BlackRock because he has no ability to influence pay elsewhere.

Yeah, I do not think that one is right and one is wrong necessarily. I just object to this conceit that rankings are not ratings, because rankings are not subjective, or predictions. In the above case the criteria are not applied evenly, so it is hard to argue that the rankings are objective. But the very nature of choosing which criteria to apply is subjective. So even if you apply your criteria objectively it is still, at its root, a subjective process. Then when you use your individual rankings to make team projections, as we all do, you are making a prediction based on the assumption that your rankings equal the final results. I would rather everyone just admit that there is a tremendous amount of subjectivity in rankings. As for me, I have said many times no one gets better at wrestling by not wrestling. That applies equally to Ferrari and Steveson. However, I can also subjectively state that the gap between Steveson and his field was much larger than the gap between Ferrari and his field however many years back you want to go. So, subjectively I can still place Steveson in the #1 spot against a stronger competition, while dropping Ferrari to #4 against lesser competition.

Then let's look at Steveson's 285 ranking logic. They have him first "based on top ten wins over Greg Kerkvliet, Wyatt Hendrickson, Cohlton Schultz, Taye Ghadiali, and Luke Luffman." Those wins all occurred in 2021 and 2022. Now let's compare that to Ferrari's 197 ranking logic. They have him fourth, reasoning "Ferrari hasn't wrestled anyone other than Buchanan ranked in the top 8 and his wins over Buchanan were over two years ago." They also ask the question, "but should he be ahead of Buchanan, Cardenas, and Elam who have all competed at least two NCAA Tournaments since AJ Ferrari won his title?" And their answer is no as revealed by their rankings. So they discount Ferrari's wins because they were over two years ago, but include Steveson's wins even though they were over two years ago. They also think that having competed at two or more NCAA tournaments since Ferrari's last title is enough to promote non-winners of those tournaments above Ferrari, but Kerkvliet, who has also wrestled at two tournaments since Steveson won his last title, does not get the same benefit. And unlike any of the three ahead of Ferrari, Kerkvliet has actually won a tournament. The most recent.

I just read the Flo justification for ranking Steveson above Starocci in the pound for pound rankings and it turned on loses occurring in 2019 for Steveson and 2021 for Starocci's along with bonus rates (@Truzzcat). So there must not be a time limit.

Person, woman, man, camera, TV. These seem to be both a cognition test and the qualification criteria for cabinet level positions.

Is there a time limit to that? AJ Ferrari is 2-0 against Stephen Buchanan (2021), but you have Buchanan #1 and Ferrari#4. Ferrari also has a significantly better record against common opponents than #3 Rocky Elam, and #2 Jacob Cardenas.

There is a lot wrong with your argument. First, the attached article places the blame on concerns advertisers have with Musk dating to before he even closed the deal. Media Matters is only mentioned as having taken a poll. It is GLAAD and ADL that are credited with calls to action. Second, no one who is serious, or understands BlackRock's business model, thinks they are coercing, or have the ability to coerce, anyone. What lever could they possibly use?

Managing index funds, married with my third child on the way.

Ditto

There have been some many more guesses since then. That is just the last one you are aware of. And, yes.

If I had to guess I would say Intermat is also penalizing Mendez for the two losses last year.