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Bonus Points: 2013 - 2022


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I finally got around to estimating bonus points. Emphasis on estimating.

I found the final team scores from 2013 - 2022 on the Penn State Wrestling Club website. I joined those with my team by team estimates of advancement points and actual placement points to come up with a team by team, year by year estimate of how many bonus points were scored. Because my advancement points are only estimated I wound up with a handful of negative bonus point situations. I used a very sophisticated method of changing my estimated advancement so that bonus was no longer negative (aka The Torture the Numbers Until They Speak Principal). Most of these "corrections/re-estimations" were 0.5 points with the occasional full point or point and a half.

Because any individual entry might be off a tad I will stick with summary level data.

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A little Trivia

  • In 2013 Northwestern scored 32.5 team points without scoring a single bonus point. That is the highest team score with zero bonus points in my sample.
  • From 2017 - 2022 no team with zero bonus points scored double digit team points.
  • 2017 PSU edges 2018 Iowa 32.5 to 30.5 for most bonus points in the period. PSU had 5 MD, 9 1.5 TF, and 7 Pinfalls. Iowa had 6 MD, 3 1.5 TF, and 10 Pinfalls.
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1 hour ago, Pinnacle said:

If it is not too much to ask, I'd be curious as to who the top ten individual bonus point scorers are in order. I can imagine most of them, of course, but it would be an interesting stat.

It is not too much trouble, especially since you asked so nicely.

Top 10 By Total Bonus Points Scored:

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Top 10 By Bonus Points Per Year:

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Top 10 By Bonus Points Per Match:

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I'd think there'd have to be some debate between bonus pernt scorers compared across decades. 

I know I'd have one big reservation with comparing them. 

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2 minutes ago, Ban Basketball said:

I'd think there'd have to be some debate between bonus pernt scorers compared across decades. 

I know I'd have one big reservation with comparing them. 

There were so many scoring rule changes that it is indeed difficult to do without context.

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1 minute ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

There were so many scoring rule changes that it is indeed difficult to do without context.

Good point, and it wasn't even that that I was thinking of.

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Though my all-time favorite bracket is still 115 lbs in 1929.

Dell Shockley of Oklahoma State went 0-2 to finish third. Of course, it was a three man bracket. He got a bye to the final where he lost. He then lost in the true second place match. Dell Shockley does not appear again at the NCAA tournament.

Even though he and I have won the same number of NCAA tournament matches, he is forever an All-American and I am forever not.

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Twenty years or so ago-maybe it's still the case today- the national DIII tournament had a heavyweight- maybe even other weights that year- that went 1-2 and placed as an AA.

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8 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Though my all-time favorite bracket is still 115 lbs in 1929.

Dell Shockley of Oklahoma State went 0-2 to finish third. Of course, it was a three man bracket. He got a bye to the final where he lost. He then lost in the true second place match. Dell Shockley does not appear again at the NCAA tournament.

Even though he and I have won the same number of NCAA tournament matches, he is an All-American and I am not.

But did you ever weigh in at 115?  🤔  Yeah thats what I thought.  😆

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1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is not too much trouble, especially since you asked so nicely.

Top 10 By Total Bonus Points Scored:

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Top 10 By Bonus Points Per Year:

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Top 10 By Bonus Points Per Match:

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Thanks. I have seen stuff like this before and your data goes way back in time. I was aiming for your last ten years of time period to see where Spencer Lee was vs others. I figure he's probably first, but PSU has some guys who also scored high bonus so I am not sure. 

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13 minutes ago, Pinnacle said:

 

Thanks. I have seen stuff like this before and your data goes way back in time. I was aiming for your last ten years of time period to see where Spencer Lee was vs others. I figure he's probably first, but PSU has some guys who also scored high bonus so I am not sure. 

If I filter for anyone who finished their career in the past ten years and anyone who will finish their career this year (2011 - 2023), Spencer Lee ranks 11th in total bonus points. If he has an average year he will move up to fifth.

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9 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

If I filter for anyone who finished their career in the past ten years and anyone who will finish their career this year (2011 - 2023), 

 

What if you filter for all years ending in 7?  😉

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34 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

If I filter for anyone who finished their career in the past ten years and anyone who will finish their career this year (2011 - 2023), Spencer Lee ranks 11th in total bonus points. If he has an average year he will move up to fifth.

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Little surprised by that as I figured he'd be higher. Devin Carter and Daniel Lewis making the list were also unexpected. Thanks. 

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1 hour ago, Pinnacle said:

Ahhh. 

Spencer Lee does have an outside shot at catching Logan Steiber for highest total points in the last 10 years. But, he needs needs his best tournament yet to catch him. He trails Stieber by 27.5 having scored 27, 24.5, and 24.5 in his three tournaments. If he has his average tournament (25.3 points) he will be in second on that list.

All time Lee is seventh on the most points per tournament list behind Sanderson, Hodge, Gable Stieber, Wayne Martin, and Banach.

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