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Not that this is where you will find a lot of Rutgers or Indiana wrestlers, but Wrestlestat has had the fewest number of preseason #1's beaten so far this year. So let's go with their number 100%.

Word is one of their wrestlers was too healthy

How many people who have ignored your legal advice have you given that book to?

<toe tapping> <checking watch>

That is comforting to a lot of us.

I wonder if he even has aspirations to real wrestle anymore. I checked out his agents website and they list him in their WWE category rather than NCAA/NIL. https://www.1str.com/preview/f25d9c67bfbb19a5?section=featured

If you provide me the list of wrestlers to exclude for the ~79 teams, I can do that. The list seems like a lot of work, and a lot of assumptions need to be made.

I assumed that because antitroll said that, and when you challenged his assumption about the magnitude of the 10 misses you did not question his statement about the number of misses.

If he wasn't close why repeat the exercise 9 times?

My mom had fake plastic bushes put in front of the house in the 70's. It was bad.

I like to think I am the most arrogant wrestler poster. Cocky? Check. Brash? Check. Haughty, pompous, boastful? Check, check, check. I'm a five tool player, baby.

Mods, I think we can safely remove the 'Start new topic" button. We only need this one thread to cover all topics.

If the defensive wrestler is rewarded for escaping why shouldn't the offensive wrestler be allowed to prevent him from escaping? It seems symmetrical.

At least they are priced at fair value.

Check out Carter Starroci's social media.

This thread represents the highest use of a forum.

Did he say whose idea that was?

sorted by Last Title Year

So let's play the ranking game, heretic. Here are the 100%ers sorted by Last Title Year (3 for 3 in the freshman ineligible era or 4 for 4). How would you rank them? And do anything you want there Top 5, Top 10, from 1 to Spencer, don't rank them, etc. I am giving Yianni Diakomihalis and Spencer Lee credit for the win already (like Ladbroke's paying out on tickets before the event is complete). Because. Name First Year Last Title Year Weight Total Titles School Yianni Diakomihalis 2018 2022 149 4 Cornell Spencer Lee 2018 2021 125 4 Iowa Logan Stieber 2012 2015 141 4 Ohio State Kyle Dake 2010 2013 165 4 Cornell Cael Sanderson 1999 2002 197 4 Iowa State Pat Smith 1990 1994 158 4 Oklahoma State Mike Caruso 1965 1967 123 3 Lehigh Yojiro Uetake 1964 1966 130 3 Oklahoma State Gray Simons 1959 1962 115 3 Lock Haven Larry Hayes 1959 1961 147 3 Iowa State Dan Hodge 1955 1957 177 3 Oklahoma Ed Peery 1955 1957 123 3 Pittsburgh Myron Roderick 1954 1956 130 3 Oklahoma State Hugh Peery 1952 1954 115 3 Pittsburgh Bill Koll 1946 1948 147 3 Northern Iowa David Arndt 1941 1946 136 3 Oklahoma State Joe McDaniel 1937 1939 121 3 Oklahoma State Stanley Henson 1937 1939 155 3 Oklahoma State Wayne Martin 1934 1936 134 3 Oklahoma Rex Peery 1933 1935 118 3 Oklahoma State Ross Flood 1933 1935 126 3 Oklahoma State Conrad Caldwell 1929 1931 175 3 Oklahoma State Jack van Bebber 1929 1931 165 3 Oklahoma State Earl McCready 1928 1930 Unlimited 3 Oklahoma State

If I have failed to see far it is because I stood on the shoulders of ants. I kid. The ranking services are doing the lord's work. As for Bow and Arrows, my data shows an unequivocal support for them. If anything the data suggests wrestlers should not be allowed to win if they do not perform one.

Big props to @BerniePragle who helped me with the data to figure out expected points, average seed vs placement, etc.

when he is telling the grandkids about the good ol' days I hope he goes with the eye fell out version.

There is a thread on HR about Iowa slipping to number 3 in WIN Magazine's tournament power index behind Missouri. I still have Iowa #2 across the board using Intermat, Flo and Wrestlestat individual rankings combined with expected placement and advancement points (no bonus points in my totals). And in one case (the only case that matters? Intermat) they even increased their lead over Missouri by 0.8 points. Some of the responses on HR focus on the "fact" that Missouri always underperforms their seed, so it is OK. I am not so sure that is the hook Hawkeye fans want to hang their hat on, though. Yes, Missouri tends to underperform when their seeds are higher, but then who doesn't? You can also argue they were over-seeded in 2018 and 2021 as a result of being in a "weaker" conference, but that is cherry picking or else how do you explain 2017 when they had their highest average finish while only missing their seed by a half spot? Regardless, this year their seeds are a result of this year's results, not some perceived historical bias. And the expected points methodology accounts for under-performance on average at higher seeds and over-performance at lower seeds. But the real point here is nothing has changed for Iowa. There is a gap between them and PSU in one direction with a smaller gap between them and Missouri in the other direction.

Ed Banach scored an average of 25.625 per tournament. Spencer Lee has scored an average of 25.333 per tournament. If he fails to win the title (he won't) and scores under 26.5 he will still trail Banach.

No. Of their 54 NCAA champions the highest win percentage is 75% (Ed Banach, Jim Zalesky, Barry Davis, Tom Brands, Lincoln McIlravy, Joe Williams, and Spencer Lee {until March, then 100%}). In the "No Freshman" eras they had but a single 2x'er, Terry McCann from 1954 to 1956.