Wrestleknownothing

a damn fine list

While we all wait for the field to be announced later today, and the seeds to be announced tomorrow, I thought I would use the new post-conference Intermat rankings to see how PSU consolidated power and Iowa slid to the abyss. Oh, wait. Iowa is still in prime position to get second or third? Do tell. This goes to show, once again, that 14 man / 14 team brackets are very different than 33 man / 66 team brackets. Yes, NC State returns to the expected runner up slot, but Iowa still improved their expected points in spite of their fourth place team finish at the B1G, and looks to give NC State a run for their money. At this point it will come down to performance versus seed, rather than outright seed advantages, to determine second place. Teams sliding this week include Nebraska, Virginia Tech, and Missouri. Missouri is particularly notable. They sat at the top of the also ran heap as recently as January 23, but now are looking like they will be outside the top 10 (12th). Realistically though, that fourth podium spot looks like a real jump ball. Perform and it is yours... is what of 10 teams can say, but only 1 team will say. Meanwhile, PSU still looks like they will come up a bit short of the scoring record. But then there is always the PSU bump...

From the NCAA Championship webinar: So we get the field sometime today and the seeding starting at 8 ET tomorrow.

Yes, but I am not sure when it is released, before or with the seeding.

Correct, they first determine the at-large and then use wins against the other 32 in the field as the definition of quality wins. There is also a weighting scheme for quality wins. For example, a win over someone with a 90% win %, or a top 5 in CR or RPI counts twice as much as a win over someone with a 70% win %, or 11-15 in CR or RPI.

Amen

None. And Lehigh is touch and go to get two. Looking at the matrix there are two categories that are undecided between Stanich and Davis. Davis leads Stanich in quality wins by one, but if Diego Sotelo grabs one of the at-large spots, they will be tied. And it may come down to who has the higher coaches' rank.

Tomorrow at 7 central.

For me the answer is I do not read all the threads, here or elsewhere. I pick and choose. I picked this one because I saw Katie Britt's performance the other night and it struck me as overly dramatic, like she was acting. I even commented to that effect. To then find out she lied was not a surprise. My reaction is she cares more about sex trafficing in the US as a calculated political device to gain power, than as a human evil. If she truly cared about the problem she would not make up lies about it, because when the lies are exposed it detracts from efforts to solve the problem. Always does. Edit: that Vak started the thread matters, too. I find him to be a reliable narrator with interesting thoughts. There are many unreliable narrators on this part of the board. I generally avoid their threads, but not always, as you can see from recent posts.

Why are you trying to make this about something else. Lets stick to the OP and think about it critically. His post uses the word admitted, which implies guilt. In fact it was report, by the INS, in a regularly issued report on legal immigration. Why didn't he use reported? Because admitted is loaded and reported is not. Admitted will get people's blood boiling, reported will not. These immigrants were legal and paid their own way, both of which the OP lied about. The OP also used quotation marks in strange ways like he was copy pasting from a source, but not really. And why not post the link to the source? Anyway, when you read things that do not add up you should not just accept them uncritically. Perhaps you could even engage the OP on the subject rather than asking me not to post.

She really is an awful person

Fix does have the marginally better RPI.

No. Nor is that what the original quote (?) was referring to.

No, it is a comparison among wrestlers. This powerpoint does a partial job of explaining it starting on page 7: https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/championships/sports/wrestling/d1/men/D1MWR_SelectionsProcess.pdf

These were not illegal and they were not tracked using cell phone data. Both of those statements are intentional to make it all sound so clandestine and extra-legal. They were legal immigrants who paid their own way and the information was contained in a regular INS report.

A-freakin-men.

after at-large

repeat

Your fault for blinking. Twice.

I think it comes down to the 10,000ths of RPI. If the wrestlestat RPI is the same as the RPI used by the NCAA (and I think it is), then Yonger gets the top seed based on his RPI of 0.7427 vs Kerkvliet's 0.7422. Head to Head - Push, Quality Wins -Bastida has more quality wins (13 vs 10) - so either 20/0 or 15/5 - not clear when they do 15/5, Coaches' Rank - Kerkvliet 15/0 Conference Finish - Push Common Opponents - Push Win % - Push RPI - Bastida 10/0 So Bastida outpoints Kerkvliet by either 5 or 15 (depending on how QW is split), all because of a loss by an opponents opponent somewhere down the line.

yes, because he did.

Someone missed weight in 2019, I think. Do you recall the circumstances?

There is precedence for taking the 34th wrestler to replace someone who drops after the seeds are done due to injury. It happened in 2021 when Wyatt Sheets was added to 157 as the #33 after someone dropped (I never remember who). Sheets went on to finish 8th.

I took this stance. I always take this stance. In a sport where 100% of athletes get injured, when they say they are injured I choose to believe them.