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So clearly an admitted hater. At least you are clear about it.

Thanks for this too! What about looking at those ranked mid pack on the board? How many by team and how many AA’d?

@Wrestleknownothing - great stuff. Real value add. Thank you. Have you done this analysis at the team level to help bring data to the ‘good vs bad at development’ question? I see a version of it in another thread. Focus was top 20 wrestlers. Curious to see you blow it out. For example - team had X number of 50 to 100 ranked guys and this is how many of them AA’d. Thanks again.

Anyone have a video of Nahshon’s loss by fall?

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No 2020! How could I forget. Thanks for all the work here. Very cool.

Well, then that is 11 years. Please remove 2013.

The middle of campus is freaking beautiful. Middle of nowhere? I have a different definition for that.

Lehigh wrestling has a great history. For me a good reputation. But I’m feeling like they aren’t landing big enough fish. What is the “vibe” at the high school level? How are the recruits thinking of them?

Looks like Ohio State is clearly top 5 … strong case for 3. And yes OKState … I do admit to a recency bias! Data tells a story that I didn’t recall. All good. For past 10 yrs strong case for top 5 even if have slipped. Michigan on the other hand seems to have good momentum. Cornell and Mizzou … also options for top 5.

JB - open to people’s best thinking. Chart above looking like a good approach.

Clearly Penn State is #1. I’m pretty confident Iowa is #2 but someone can prove me wrong. Who would round out the top 5? I’ll call these the upper echelon of D1 wrestling now.

You are probably right. I’ll pretend like I have an actual drum to beat - makes me feel better.

As I mentioned, piloting makes sense. But more for working out kinks. Regarding the data … the pilot would need to be very robust and long lasting to show impacts on behavior changes. Hard to do for one region and not do for others. Thoughts on how the pilot would work? Feel other changes to rules also require piloting and data collection and evaluation? Has this been done for other wrestling (or other sport) rule changes? When NFL puts in more rules with aim of reducing injuries to quarterbacks is there a detailed pilot with extensive data collection?

Piloting would need to be the way. Clearly some challenges to be worked through. I’d like to see the sport give it a try. And to the person that is demanding evidence of success of the change before trying the change … great logic. Tell that to all inventors, explorers, the founding fathers, etc. Sometimes good ideas and the people that support them rely on logic and solid hypothesis to give something a try — even when lacking in data saying it will clearly work.

Tough bout. 5-4 Brooks win. Had a caution against him at end for not engaging hard enough. 2 TDs by Brooks, one for Bagaev.

And what I’m guessing is traditional folk dancing. looks similar to India culture dancing as well - at least for the women.

And ballet!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania–Iran_relations Learned something new

I’m open to approaches for a tourney. I think another weigh in for placement matches makes sense. For 2 day tourneys - You tell me how it could best work. I bet you can come up with some pretty good ideas. These logistic quibbles are just that, quibbles. Not breaking any laws of physics. This can be done.

If this is the best argument against, all good.

@Jim L - well said.

Not sure it is much of an advantage. Both guys had to weigh in for their first match right then. Today the guy with bye has a much bigger advantage … they have way way more time to rehydrate and recover before their first match. I believe this is a minor concern over all. A bye is inherently unfair.

A challenge to all the folks that prefer to try to ‘challenge’ this idea. Think about being very motivated to make this work .. say you get $1M if so. Very important to consider challenges … so you are doing well. But also very important to figure out the best ways to overcome. As you mention a challenge - also mention your very best thoughts on how the challenge could be overcome. Curious to hear your problem solving skills as well.

Register at weight, show up and confirm wrestling and go through skin check. Draw up brackets at that point. Another option is weighins like today and draw up brackets. Prefer former but might need this option early on. Step on scale again when going to match. I’m thinking you need to weigh in for your first match. So those with bye’s need to step on scale for first match. Open to ideas here.