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I am saying you sound like an old man yelling at clouds. Pointless. Yes, wages have exceeded inflation. As much as that does not serve your narrative, it is true. As for retirees, every retiree ever has had this same problem. It is the hazard of retiring. It is why a financial planner will insist you take into account inflation when figuring out how much money you need to retire and maintain your lifestyle.

He was #19 on the 2017 Big Board

But you are still looking at an incomplete picture. If things cost more and you are making the same, that is bad for you. If things cost more and you are making more, that is not necessarily bad. What you ant to look at is real wage growth (i.e. wage growth minus inflation, also known as purchasing power). There the US has done quite well since 2019.

That list misses the biggest of them all, Cargill, because it is privately owned. Cargill had revenue of $165 billion in 2022 compared to Pepsico's $86 billion. If you want to talk control of the food supply, it starts and ends with Cargill.

Level setting for the conversation. General inflation: Food inflation: Between the 1970s and early 2000s, food-at-home prices and food-away-from-home prices increased at similar rates. However, between 2009 and 2019, their growth rates diverged; while food-at-home prices deflated in 2016 and 2017, monthly food-away-from-home prices rose consistently. Differences between the costs of serving prepared food at restaurants and retailing food in supermarkets and grocery stores partly explain this difference. In 2020, food-at-home prices increased 3.5 percent and food-away-from-home prices increased 3.4 percent. This convergence was largely driven by a rapid increase in food-at-home prices following the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly for meats and poultry, while food-away-from-home price inflation remained similar to its 2019 inflation rate. In 2021, all food prices increased 3.9 percent as prices began accelerating in the second-half of the year. No food categories tracked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) decreased in price in 2021 compared with their prices in 2020. In 2022, food prices increased by 9.9 percent, faster than any year since 1979. Food-at-home prices increased by 11.4 percent, while food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.7 percent. Food prices rose partly due to a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak that affected egg and poultry prices and the conflict in Ukraine, which compounded other economy-wide inflationary pressures such as high energy costs. All food price categories increased by more than 5 percent, and all food categories grew faster than their historical average rate. In 2023, food prices increased by 5.8 percent. Food price growth slowed in 2023 as economy-wide inflationary pressures, supply chain issues, and wholesale food prices eased from 2022. Food-at-home prices increased by 5.0 percent, and food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.1 percent. While prices increased for all food categories except for pork, prices grew more slowly in 2023 than in 2022 for all categories.

@cowcards is your man. He has amassed an amazing database of biographical info to go with results.

To be clear, there is no medical default. There is a medical forfeit or an injury default. And the two are treated very differently in the rules.

No, I think I have done enough to illustrate the silliness of your original comparison.

If wrestling is so great why doesn't the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA have seven minute games?

I agree. Push out point is great. No more backing to the edge to hedge your bets. I love criteria as someone is always losing and incentivized to attack, but I am also ok with folkstyle, war of attrition, OT. But the point lost for a lost challenge is the best to me, but only in a setting where the review is done independently. No more lungers.

Hmmmm. I wonder what the NM in your username stands for.

1 out of 10

I don't think so. The NCAA document uses the word participate, not wrestle, in two matches. And injury defaults count as participation, as they require the wrestler to make weight and step on the mat. They also allow the wrestler to go on to the next round if not eliminated by the loss. A medical forfeit does not count as participating as the wrestler can skip weigh, not go on the mat, and does not advance. By requiring 2 injury defaults they eliminate the option of one injury default, one medical forfeit resulting in one loss on the wrestler's record. Now you have to take two losses.

It is formulaic and based on a combination of win%, RPI, and coaches' rank compared to everyone else in the at-large pool. At 12-2, with no RPI (need 15 matches for that), and a very high coaches' rank, he will certainly get an at-large spot.

AQ is for the conference champ. He would need to qualify for an at-large spot if he defaults at the conference tournie.

seems to be saying he is a go

The Need For Chaos

You can guess while I quote.

None have been in order. There is a five way tie for the closest. 2013 - 133 above is an example of one of the five. The absolute difference between seeds and places was 6.

Re-read my post. I already addressed this.

Read the very first post in this thread.

Exactly

See the bolded part above