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Amen. I am here for the entertainment value.

If you aint with him, your agin him.

Hardy is one slot above Bartlett in the NCAA RPI, and one slot below in the WrestleStat RPI. Basically an identical strength of schedule. Ditto for quality wins. Using slightly imperfect data (current CR) Hardy pips Bartlett by 0.5 (25.5 to 25)

There is a posting limit?

You saying others have blinders on for a specific team is your funniest bit of performance art.

huh? he beat two former champions on a bum knee last year. I am all for your wishcasting, but at least get your facts straight. And how did he do against the elite guys in his weight this year? I will answer my own question. 2-0 against #2 and #3.

I keep forgetting this back story. Thank you for the reminder.

Starocci wasn't a lock last year either. It turned out OK for PSU.

He likes to wishcast. So be it. Not my style, but it makes him happy.

Not a favorite team, but I was just thinking this morning how much I enjoy Nebraska's Brock Hardy and Ridge Lovett.

Ahh. Now I get it. Probably right. I have occassionally forgotten to apply that filter and then wonder why the results look off.

There have been 5 tournaments of 33 seeds (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) And five tournaments of 16 seeds (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

That is very time frame dependent as the full lookback includes periods where DNP started with 4th place, 5th place, 7th place, and 9th place at various times.

He will likely get penalized for wrestling a very weak schedule. The difference between his coaches' poll ranking and his RPI ranking is the third largest in the field.

Ferrari is third in the coaches' rank and sixteenth in the RPI list. I have to believe RPI and quality wins are closely related, so he is probably pretty far down in that too.

Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.

You are getting sensitive. The Musk/Trump economy must be getting to you. But worry not. Trump will end inflation on day 1, he will end the war in Ukraine on day 1. I can't wait for day 1. But always keep in mind, Trump has contempt for you. As for your math (or the math someone else did that you blindly accept), it may have been true at one time, but after the incineration job Musk/Trump has done to the economy, it is no longer true. And do you only listen to people who have more money than you? Is that how you measure your own self-worth? By your net worth? That would be a sad way to live. As long as we are quoting memes, it has also been said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

I agree, but what I think it is is lack of attention to detail. The coaches submit their starters and rather than filtering that list down to the 330 who made the tournament, I suspect they are using an unfiltered list. As for RPI, yes, many of the differences come down to match totals, but there are also wrestlers on the RPI list who did not make the tournament. And no actual RPIs are listed. Just a little sloppy. This also makes it impossible to check their work. In another post @jdalu75 does they math to demonstrate small errors can have impacts on who makes the tournament and who does not.

Not forgetting them. I just did not go that low.

Well not in wrestling, but I am sure in something. According to the last coaches' rankings Nebraska has surpassed Oklahoma State for the third podium spot and is just a tad behind Iowa for second. Even that ~80 point gap to PSU is manageable. For details check with @jajensen09 One caveat. The coaches' rankings, for some inexplicable reason, include wrestlers who did not make the tournament. When seeds come out later today I will update the projections.

Great job focusing on exactly the wrong thing. The President of the United States is doing a sales pitch on the lawn of the White House complete with prices and financing options because he is Musk's puppet. Between the two of them they incinerated $859 billion of Tesla's market cap and trillions of dollars of the US stock market cap. So Trump decides it is time to target helping the richest man in the world. If you look closely you can see the strings Musk is pulling to make Trump's mouth move. But Musk is a poor ventriloquist so I love Tesla comes out I love Tesler. Such a buffoon. Trump doesn't care about you. Trump holds you in contempt.

It is odd that the coaches are still ranking a whole bunch of wrestlers who did not qualify for the tournament, which means they also left a lot out. And the ranking list is not the same as the RPI list. What a mess.

First thing I noticed too

How about when he said, "I love Tesler"? Buffoon.

What I have learned so far this week is apparently Penn State, Iowa, and Ohio State are all in bad shape. By the end of the week I expect Oklahoma State, Nebraska, and Minnesota to join them.