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Funny, I was just watching his QF against Retherford last night and the first time the announcer said his name it came out pan-TA-leo. It hurt my ears.

The nothing is silent

I bet you know how my apartment smells too.

Forgot to mention this does not include bonus points.

Based on this week's individual wrestler rankings. As a reminder: I equate rank with seed Expected points is based on the average placement and advancement points by seed from 2010 - 2022 Max Points is based on the maximum placement and advancement points if the rank equals the final placement Mean Points is like Max except it accounts for the fact that there are multiple paths for wrestlers to finish third through twenty-fourth, and therefore multiple possible advancement point outcomes. I added these last two columns because of the difference between where anOSU and Mizzou would finish in the Intermat rankings based on different ways to count points.

Also a great point. If you are leading by two, two and a half or three, MFF and lock in the one point win, half point win or tie. Hmmm. Let's speculate on which coach would stoop so low.

I mentioned that I needed to add bonus points into my estimations of team finishes based on the major ranking services. Turns out that extracting bonus point data at the individual wrestler level is a very heavy lift, so in true know nothing form, I did not do that lift. Instead I took a look at the total bonus points per year by weight from 2010 - 2022. I separated the first and last rounds from the middle rounds on each side of the bracket to create six categories. As expected, it gets harder to score bonus points as the tournament goes on, with one exception: The exception is in the third, fifth, and seventh place matches (Last Round, Consolation Bracket). But this number is greatly inflated by the number of medical forfeits in those matches. Which raises the question, should bonus points be awarded for medical forfeits in the third, fifth, and seventh place matches given that there is a chance that could decide a team podium position? It looks like this happened in 2015. Missouri beat out Cornell for fourth by two points. And in the 141 seventh place match, Lavion Mayes received the automatic extra placement point and two bonus points when Anthony Ashnault was unable to wrestle for a potential three point swing. The next closest this came to happening was 2016. Virginia Tech beat out Iowa for fourth place by a single point. If either of Iowa's two eighth place finishers that year had instead been the beneficiary of a MFF they would have come in third.

You are making the assumption that my contribution would have been greater than zero otherwise. Since this is the first time I have ever made a contribution, your assumption is on shaky ground.

Before the start? No. Never before the start.

I know a wrestler whose routine is to not have a routine. That way if his routine gets messed up it won't mess up his routine.

It is not just you. And wrestling from his knees drives me crazy. Its stalling.

You know what else is absurd? The idea that they can keep dumping bodies off the same curve in the road and no one will notice a pile of bodies laying at the bottom of the cliff and begin to investigate. We have a mass murderer as our protagonist, for god's sake.

After completing an exhaustive study of students who were once on the dole in my house (sample size=4), I have conclusively determined that half of all students take more than four years to graduate.

That's me in the red shirt.

You hear that? Us swimmers are a bunch of rocket scientists.

My point was that you are talking about the symptom, not the disease.

You are decades late if you are worried about schools twisting sport into something more important than it should be for a school.

Seems the crook has stolen your heart. Somewhere Dean Hamiti sighs forlornly.

There also used to be no TV contracts, shoe and apparel deals for universities, coaches shows, and Aflac commercials.

There are no rules saying any of those have to be completed in four years, or five, or any other number.

Mizzou certainly had a bad three year run from 2018 - 2021, but other than that they are generally at or better than their seeds. And in 2022 they had 66.6% at or better than their seed. And their average seed those years was their second, third , and sixth highest.

Wow. Choosing the nuclear option.