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What is your problem with the tweet?

Covid turned 4 in 5 to 5 in 6 temporarily.

I am surprised he doesn't do it more. He gave us a free playground. His place. His rules.

And there can never be too many.

There aren't enough Sexual Chocolate references on this board.

Even though they were not yet fixed at 33 wrestlers per weight, it looks like 2008 had only 2 more matches than 2023. And it looks like 2009 is when they went to 33 man brackets. Though there was one 32 man bracket that year.

You all flunk the class for failure to turn in your homework on time. It was bugging me to see if TF were down because MD were up at the 2023 tournament. Nope. They were actually a little below average last year too. In tabular form: In graphical form: Not much to say here other than the last two years were nothing like the prior five. Now, if PSU breaks Iowa's total points scored record because of incremental bonus earned through incremental takedown points, is it tainted?

Have at it

That doesn't sound like me.... But, as long as I have you here. My guess is that we will see a good sized jump in the regular season where there are some big skill mismatches that will make catch and release a viable strategy. But in the NCAA tournament we are unlikely to see that kind of talent disparity. For example, the TF without back points is the rarest of all animals. Going back to 2015 where they list whether something is a tech fall or major there have been 169 tech falls listed in the brackets and each and every one of them is listed as TF-1.5 (i.e. there were back points). Instead we look at majors that were near tech falls to guess which may have been bumped to tech falls with the addition of an extra take down point. In the 2023 tournament there were 88 major decisions. The breakdown was: 8 point major: 29 (33%) 9 point major: 24 (27%) 10 point major: 16 (18%) 11 point major: 5 (6%) 12 point major: 9 (10%) 13 point major: 5 (6%) 14 point major: 0 (0%) My guess is that very few to none of the 8 and 9 point majors become tech falls with the extra point. For example, lets say the score was 8-0 with 3 take downs, an escape and a riding time point. In the absence of more takedowns the new score would be 11-0. Of course, there is now a greater incentive to ride less and take down more, but I still think almost all 8 and 9 point majors would stay majors. That leaves us the 10 - 14 point majors. All 14 point majors would become TF, but there were none last year. And almost all 13 point majors become TFs (lets say all). But the probability decreases as the difference decreases. If 67% of 12 pointers, 60% of 11 pointers and 50% of 10 pointers become 15+ pointers then last year we would be looking at an extra 22 tech falls. Is 22 extra tech falls a lot? Damn straight it is. From 2015 to 2022 there were an average 23 tech falls. so, yes, a near 100% increase would be a lot. Note: There is one huge caveat. I only looked at major decisions in 2023. And the more careful reader may notice that 2023 was not included in my range in the paragraph above. If you want some free beer at the next NCAA tournament ask someone in a bar to set a line for the number of tech falls in the 2023 tournament, and you will pick over or under. You should almost certainly pick the under. There was a stunningly small number of tech falls last year which may also mean there were an abnormally large number of majors. I do not know because I did not check the number of majors any other year. Perhaps that could be your homework assignment. Think of it as extra credit. Tech Falls by Year: 2015 12 2016 25 2017 33 2018 28 2019 22 2021 28 2022 12 2023 9

I can't hold my tongue any longer. Casey's Pizza and Carver Cones are hot and cold garbage. Carver Cones are soft serve. What the hell is that anyway? It comes in a bag and then oozes out of a machine. This is the lowest form of ice cream, and just barely that. If it wasn't for alliteration absolutely no one would care. And as for the "pizza"...never mind that it is gas station pizza (strike one), but it is flavorless (strike two), limp (dropped third strike), and has crappy texture (thrown out at first anyway). Stadium food and gas station food are the worst forms of food there are. It is time we acknowledged this immutable law.

Watching that live I thought, "this is why I don't wrestle".

Do you even know what the definition of is is?

And I thought I had a cold heart. But major props for a great gif

It warms my cold heart to see so many correct usages of pinfall.

Think of it as a 3 point swing. If they don't score two, they will be down one. In that way they are rewarded extra for scoring and digging themselves out of the hole they dug.

@RicoSwaff but have you considered renaming it PInfall Doctors?

The Party knows best who your favorite is, Tovarisch.

wrong, wrong, wrong. repeat after me, "ref screwed me"

Richard Voliva, a Distinguished Member inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1984, was born on this date in 1912. #LegendsLiveOn Every university welcomes home-grown talent. So when Indiana University Wrestling was building a wrestling power in the early 1930s, it was happy to find a young state champion right at home in Bloomington. As a sophomore, Dick was a member of the Indiana University Athletics team that claimed the 1932 NCAA championship, first ever for a Big Ten school. He amassed individual honors the next two years, reaching the national finals in 1933 and winning both Big Ten and NCAA titles as a senior, closing with a 48-4 record. He also starred in football, and as a senior was presented a special award for bringing honor and distinction to his university. Dick won a silver medal at the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. On returning from the Olympics, he joined the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey and soon launched a wrestling program there, serving as coach until World War II brought a four-year interruption. He had been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army upon graduation in 1934, and during active duty he rose in rank to lieutenant colonel. Dick returned to New Jersey in 1946, but at the state university, Rutgers University. He coached Rutgers Wrestling for 25 years, guiding his teams to 148 victories against 85 losses and eight draws. He was a leader among his colleagues, serving five years on the NCAA rules committee, two of them as chairman. He was president of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association and of the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

Well, there is that.

Your poker analogy doesn't hold up. Four of a kind still beats one ace.

This was the pic I took of the freeze frame they showed on the jumbotron. It was an angle that Flo did not have. Or at least did not show on FRL.

If I guess the number between those two, do I get accepted?

Who is doing the paying? Who has jurisdiction to cap what they pay?