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Seeing reports on the minnow page beau at 141 may be ducking woods to protect the #1 seed at big 10s. Any insiders have any info?

Hmmmm. I’ll take your word for it

1997 they respectively finished: 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 1, 5, r12, 1, r12 was it easier or harder to get to r12 back then? Obviously the consis were harder to get to cause you had to lose to the person that advanced the farthest….. for example. Brett Lawrence at 133 finished 8th Lost to azevedo who lost to j thompson…. In 1997 he is out of the tourney right? Tough draw btw But he was the 10 seed

I think they had 9 AAs and a r12 that year. I think they did 9AA + r12 some other year as well.

Jore volk just went down too.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/01/31/tennessee-virginia-ags-suing-ncaa-over-nil-related-recruiting-rules-with-vols-under-investigation/72421368007/#

They would be more likely to roll out someone like barraclough than let him wrestle kot 2 times during the regular season.

For hodge consideration? Correct me if I’m wrong. The peeps on this board will not forget but it will factor in the actual hodge criteria I thought. Don’t forget both 174 and 197 psu have already dodged top 8 or better competition this year already.

Correct/agreed I wrote that backwards. Typo. Doubt I can edit it now lol.

Then there should be less griping about their seeds/rankings at this point.

Psu plays the math razor thin with some of the seeding criteria. If you wrestle a lot more matches and hand the same amount of losses vs someone who wrestles way less. Guess what…. Your seed will suffer. Everyone (most everyone) is in favor of that. Maybe wrestle cklv or some other tourney and look for wins against prominent non big 10 opponents. Would that make these situations easier to seed? I think it typically/usually would. Subjectively using results from another sport like u20 worlds should not be a factor imo. Sure. Most/all of them do well….. but they have to prove they do well before earning the ranking.

I don’t know if he is or isn’t undersized but in 2022 he was wrestling 152 in high school.

Shane liegel wrestled d3. Pretty cool he’s ranked at 16. Would be a cool story if he made the podium.

Fair. -2 for me tonight

Fair lol. You win ha. I do believe it will get more and more cpu driven vs human driven over time though. Time will tell

Wonder if anyone with actual human psychology experience would weigh in. (I have zero… other than one psych class a 20 years ago in college). I feel like refs that have the backup of replay just make the easier call then go to the film to review. Knowing they have that causes so many more reviews than necessary. Tempo in wrestling is so much more important than like the nfl or mlb to me. It’s a noticeably different product.

You’re not wrong. Soccer in Europe has offsides called by computer now. Maybe even in the World Cup I think. for the record I prefer pure human refs without challenge bricks or anything else.

I would wager. One day AI will be helping or fully officiating sporting events. Adding tracking devices to the athletes equipment or a ball to track where they are etc….. right around the corner.

Most gamblers pay their debts.

That’s all bs. This trend started recently (4-5 years ago) and it was started by Cael. #growtheaport if you look at intermat rankings. Check out the top 8 or so in each weight. Count the # of bouts and Sort that. Of the bottom 15 or so competitors psu dominates the bottom of the list. No other team has more than one. Most of the ones down there have well known injury issues (Gomez mekhi). The average of this list is 13 and change. 100% of psu is below the avg. 3 4 5 6 6 psu 174 7 psu 149 7 7 7 psu hwt 8 8 psu 184 8 psu 197 9 psu 157 10 10 psu 133 10 10 10 11 11 12 12 psu 125 12 12 psu 141 12 12 13 13 13 psu 165 13 13 13 14

Psu not competing is like 70% of all active topics at the moment. Not competing is the new they gotta call stalling lol.

Makes sense. No worries. Thanks for the reply. I will keep quiet about what I’m working on until it works better

That site is awesome. Any reason why the format of the PDFs changes from time to time? I work for a software company and I am going to try to put some AI on top of those PDFs…. If it works well we can get a ton of cool stuff out of it.

I dunno of many teams other than psu that can’t find a way to get 8 matches in. They are 73 days into the season. A match every 9 days isn’t a lot. CStar is almost at a match every 12.1 days. We are 45 days until the post season. 61% of the season is gone. #growthesportcarl

Not sure how it compares. But doesn’t purler have like 31 people on d1 rosters?