Lou DePrez - Season is over - will join Binghamton staff

[flyingcement]

InterMat Wrestling - Injury Ends DePrez's Season; Will Join Binghamton Staff (intermatwrestle.com)

Very unfortunate but wish him well as a coach

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Max Dean is breathing a sign of relief

[11986]

Billy Baldwin is sad. 
joking aside, sorry to hear. Is there another brother still on the team? Quite a history with that team and family. 

[BigRedFan]

49 minutes ago, 11986 said:

Billy Baldwin is sad. 
joking aside, sorry to hear. Is there another brother still on the team? Quite a history with that team and family. 

Hilton High School in Rochester claims Yianni, Greg Diakomihalis, Lou DePrez, and Sam DePrez as current D1 wrestlers.  The upcoming (2/10) dual between Cornell and
Binghamton is being held at Hilton to honor Yianni and Lou, both of whom are seniors.  Lou out, Greg D. out with shoulder surgery, so only with Sam and Yianni,
not quite the celebration they had hoped for.  Still, a nice gesture on the part of all involved.

[Jerry Callo]

Hilton is a smallish suburb west of Rochester proper - but their wrestling legacy is off the charts in the past 10-15 years of so.  

[Jerry Callo]

Another fun fact - the HC at Binghamton is also from the Rochester area - GO SECTION V!

[BigRedFan]

20 minutes ago, BigRedFan said:

Hilton High School in Rochester claims Yianni, Greg Diakomihalis, Lou DePrez, and Sam DePrez as current D1 wrestlers.  The upcoming (2/10) dual between Cornell and
Binghamton is being held at Hilton to honor Yianni and Lou, both of whom are seniors.  Lou out, Greg D. out with shoulder surgery, so only with Sam and Yianni,
not quite the celebration they had hoped for.  Still, a nice gesture on the part of all involved.

Make that five Hilton guys:  add Collin Burns (285) at Binghamton.

[flyingcement]

1 hour ago, BigRedFan said:

Make that five Hilton guys:  add Collin Burns (285) at Binghamton.

and Rocco Camilacci at Princeton makes six

[flyingcement]

I've been slowly putting together a list which contains the high school, hometown, and home-state of every Division 1 wrestler.  Been going by conference and have half of EIWA, SOCON and MAC still left to go... been many hours of data gathering.  Need to make this more efficient 

[ionel]

1 hour ago, flyingcement said:

I've been slowly putting together a list which contains the high school, hometown, and home-state of every Division 1 wrestler.  Been going by conference and have half of EIWA, SOCON and MAC still left to go... been many hours of data gathering.  Need to make this more efficient 

Since 1928?  

Gonna nominate you for the Wkn Medal of Honor. 

Edited January 24, 2023 by ionel

[GreatWhiteNorth]

2 hours ago, flyingcement said:

I've been slowly putting together a list which contains the high school, hometown, and home-state of every Division 1 wrestler.  Been going by conference and have half of EIWA, SOCON and MAC still left to go... been many hours of data gathering.  Need to make this more efficient 

Maybe some volunteers to assist? Just a thought.

[flyingcement]

15 hours ago, GreatWhiteNorth said:

Maybe some volunteers to assist? Just a thought.

Nice idea but I can't imagine anyone else would want the burden.  It's not fun.  I promise it will be complete before Nationals 

[flyingcement]

here is a little teaser since I just finished EIWA.  The following are the only 23 states which have a D1 wrestler at all ten weights in the sense that they claim their hometown within this state.  This is only one of the fun outputs from the data, but a number of the states below will be significantly impacted as I add the SoCon and the MAC to complete the list.  

[Warm Up Champ]

13 hours ago, flyingcement said:

here is a little teaser since I just finished EIWA.  The following are the only 23 states which have a D1 wrestler at all ten weights in the sense that they claim their hometown within this state.  This is only one of the fun outputs from the data, but a number of the states below will be significantly impacted as I add the SoCon and the MAC to complete the list.  

Fun stuff.  Definitely some states I would not have expected to be on this list.

[bnwtwg]

On 1/23/2023 at 8:37 PM, flyingcement said:

I've been slowly putting together a list which contains the high school, hometown, and home-state of every Division 1 wrestler.  Been going by conference and have half of EIWA, SOCON and MAC still left to go... been many hours of data gathering.  Need to make this more efficient 

I'm all about teaching a person how to fish, so I'll ask you about your methodology. Are you brute-forcing this endeavor aka visiting each page and selecting text for each athelete? If so could I offer an alternative: why don't you just build a webscraper using Python?

• Python is free
• You can learn to write basic code pretty quickly, like a matter of minutes to hours. If you don't want to do that, you can copypasta most queries if you want to speed up the process.
• You can brag to people that you know how to code and show off your neat little table! Take that you pleebs!
• You can get a better idea watching this video. My research comp team shows this to their interns and new grad analysts as part of their unofficial onboarding if the person doesn't know how to scrape yet.

 

[bnwtwg]

While I'm here I wanted to drop this in as well. It's obviously wayyyy too early (or late?) for fantasy football but I know plenty of folks who are not necessarily on the data science or engineering parts of the corporate world that wanted to upskill so I passed them on to Nate's textbook. Fairly easy to digest and definitely easier to understand the second time reading and doing the exercises. $120 so it's not cheap, but much less than Udemy/Pluralsight courses of the same ilk and since it is about a fun activity lots of people play it actually makes the learning less of a chore.

Items include: Python, Pandas (software built for Python), Web Scraping, Databases, SQL, Machine Learning, APIs (how you connect one web page to another)

https://fantasycoding.com/

Bonus points for learning how to properly pronounce SQL 

Edited January 27, 2023 by bnwtwg

[ionel]

1 hour ago, bnwtwg said:

While I'm here I wanted to drop this in as well. It's obviously wayyyy too early (or late?) for fantasy football but I know plenty of folks who are not necessarily on the data science or engineering parts of the corporate world that wanted to upskill so I passed them on to Nate's textbook. Fairly easy to digest and definitely easier to understand the second time reading and doing the exercises. $120 so it's not cheap, but much less than Udemy/Pluralsight courses of the same ilk and since it is about a fun activity lots of people play it actually makes the learning less of a chore.

Items include: Python, Pandas (software built for Python), Web Scraping, Databases, SQL, Machine Learning, APIs (how you connect one web page to another)

https://fantasycoding.com/

Bonus points for learning how to properly pronounce SQL 

does it rhyme with squirrel  

[flyingcement]

Seekwuhl?

[flyingcement]

3 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

I'm all about teaching a person how to fish, so I'll ask you about your methodology. Are you brute-forcing this endeavor aka visiting each page and selecting text for each athelete? If so could I offer an alternative: why don't you just build a webscraper using Python?

• Python is free
• You can learn to write basic code pretty quickly, like a matter of minutes to hours. If you don't want to do that, you can copypasta most queries if you want to speed up the process.
• You can brag to people that you know how to code and show off your neat little table! Take that you pleebs!
• You can get a better idea watching this video. My research comp team shows this to their interns and new grad analysts as part of their unofficial onboarding if the person doesn't know how to scrape yet.

 

Thanks I will check this out.  I've been doing it the old fashioned way haha

[bnwtwg]

26 minutes ago, ionel said:

does it rhyme with squirrel  

flying SQL

[Wrestleknownothing]

7 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

While I'm here I wanted to drop this in as well. It's obviously wayyyy too early (or late?) for fantasy football but I know plenty of folks who are not necessarily on the data science or engineering parts of the corporate world that wanted to upskill so I passed them on to Nate's textbook. Fairly easy to digest and definitely easier to understand the second time reading and doing the exercises. $120 so it's not cheap, but much less than Udemy/Pluralsight courses of the same ilk and since it is about a fun activity lots of people play it actually makes the learning less of a chore.

Items include: Python, Pandas (software built for Python), Web Scraping, Databases, SQL, Machine Learning, APIs (how you connect one web page to another)

https://fantasycoding.com/

Bonus points for learning how to properly pronounce SQL 

Es-Queue-El?