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Here are the updated rankings after a big tournament weekend. All results should be entered, so we aren't missing any tournaments. If you notice any matches that might be missing, send an email to support@wrestlestat.com.Wrestler Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/startersDual Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/dualTournament Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/tournamentDon't forget to check out the Tourney Projection Tool so you can simulate the results at the National Tournament.https://www.wrestlestat.com/tourney/projection

Weekend Upsets with WrestleStat is back for the 2018-2019 season. Sorry I didn't get one sent out last week, there WERE some good upsets... Here's our breakdown of this past weekends upsets. The top "upset" of the week was Gable Steveson of Minnesota beating #3 Tanner Hall of ASU 3-1 in SV....is anyone really calling this an upset (other than WrestleStat)? 11/10 Bison Open 285 - #43 Gable Steveson (Minnesota) beat #3 Tanner Hall (Arizona State) by SV-1 3 - 1 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/50624/steveson-gable/profile 11/11 Journeyman Open 197 - #68 Alex Hopkins (Army) beat #4 Jake Woodley (Oklahoma) by DEC 8 - 6 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45122/hopkins-alex/profile 11/10 Drexel - Nebraska Dual 165 - #25 Ebed Jarrell (Drexel) beat #4 Isaiah White (Nebraska) by DEC 6 - 3 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40311/jarrell-ebed/profile 11/11 Michigan - Central Michigan Dual 125 - #36 Drew Hildebrandt (Central Michigan) beat #5 Drew Mattin (Michigan) by DEC 8 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44818/hildebrandt-drew/profile 11/09 Iowa - CSU Bakersfield Dual 149 - #63 Russell Rohlfing (CSU Bakersfield) beat #6 Patricio Lugo (Iowa) by DEC 10 - 9 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40166/rohlfing-russell/profile 11/11 Journeyman Open 197 - #26 Rocco Caywood (Army) beat #8 Chris Weiler (Lehigh) by SV-1 6 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/22565/caywood-rocco/profile 11/10 Utah Valley - Rutgers Dual 157 - #102 Grant LaMont (Utah Valley) beat #9 John Van Brill (Rutgers) by DEC 9 - 6 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40320/lamont-grant/profile 11/10 Rutgers - Appalachian State Dual 157 - #76 Angel Najar (Appalachian State) beat #9 John Van Brill (Rutgers) by DEC 5 - 1 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40406/najar-angel/profile 11/10 Ohio - Campbell Dual 149 - #23 Josh Heil (Campbell) beat #10 Alec Hagan (Ohio) by DEC 8 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45100/heil-josh/profile 11/10 Utah Valley - Nebraska Dual 141 - #99 Matthew Findlay (Utah Valley) beat #12 Chad Red (Nebraska) by DEC 10 - 8 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45366/findlay-matthew/profile 11/10 Virginia - Nebraska Dual 141 - #34 Samuel Krivus (Virginia) beat #12 Chad Red (Nebraska) by DEC 3 - 1 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/43190/krivus-samuel/profile 11/10 Virginia - Wyoming Dual 133 - #20 Montorie Bridges (Wyoming) beat #12 Brian Courtney (Virginia) by DEC 7 - 5 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44844/bridges-montorie/profile 11/11 Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open 174 - #28 Trent Hidlay (North Carolina State) beat #14 Brandon Womack (Cornell) by DEC 6 - 4 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/51224/hidlay-trent/profile 11/11 Journeyman Open 174 - #44 Hayden Hastings (Wyoming) beat #16 Dylan Lydy (Purdue) by DEC 3 - 2 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/49354/hastings-hayden/profile 11/11 Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open 157 - #41 Bo Pipher (Penn State) beat #17 Quentin Hovis (Navy) by FALL 1:45 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/45075/pipher-bo/profile 11/11 Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open 157 - #37 Hunter Ladnier (Harvard) beat #17 Quentin Hovis (Navy) by DEC 2 - 0 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/44784/ladnier-hunter/profile 11/10 Virginia - Wyoming Dual 157 - #119 Dewey Krueger (Wyoming) beat #19 Jake Keating (Virginia) by DEC 14 - 7 http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40144/krueger-dewey/profile

No, you are reading it correctly. Since all 20 weren't required, I couldn't think of many different ways to approach this issue. I pondered requiring all 20 this season, but didn't pull the trigger. I may do that for next season...

Don't forget, Fantasy Pick'Em Week 3 is now open, you can make your picks here: https://www.wrestlestat.com/pickem/nextweek Here are this weeks dual comparisons. We have a few more this weekend, with both some intriguing dual matchups, as well as individual matchups. How will the PSU true freshman fare this weekend? Who will be going in place of the Iowa starters that won't be wrestling this weekend? Thursday 11/08 #43 North Dakota State vs #44 Northern Illinois https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/49/north-dakota-state/51/northern-illinois Friday 11/09 #54 Kent State vs #2 Iowa https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/36/kent-state/34/iowa 11/09 #48 Air Force vs #13 Minnesota https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/1/air-force/42/minnesota 11/09 #63 CSU Bakersfield vs #2 Iowa https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/21/csu-bakersfield/34/iowa 11/09 #54 Kent State vs #18 Wisconsin https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/36/kent-state/77/wisconsin 11/09 #18 Wisconsin vs #63 CSU Bakersfield https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/77/wisconsin/21/csu-bakersfield 11/09 #72 Southern Illinois Edwardsville vs #39 Indiana https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/69/southern-illinois-edwardsville/33/indiana 11/09 #54 Kent State vs #63 CSU Bakersfield https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/36/kent-state/21/csu-bakersfield Saturday 11/10 #10 Nebraska vs #20 Virginia https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/45/nebraska/73/virginia 11/10 #33 Wyoming vs #20 Virginia https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/78/wyoming/73/virginia 11/10 #10 Nebraska vs #45 Utah Valley https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/45/nebraska/72/utah-valley 11/10 #12 Rutgers vs #45 Utah Valley https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/66/rutgers/72/utah-valley 11/10 #50 Appalachian State vs #12 Rutgers https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/3/appalachian-state/66/rutgers 11/10 #10 Nebraska vs #53 Drexel https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/45/nebraska/23/drexel 11/10 #29 Campbell vs #40 Ohio https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/14/campbell/54/ohio 11/10 #53 Drexel vs #24 Purdue https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/23/drexel/64/purdue 11/10 #21 Pittsburgh vs #63 CSU Bakersfield https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/62/pittsburgh/21/csu-bakersfield 11/10 #55 Edinboro vs #33 Wyoming https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/26/edinboro/78/wyoming 11/10 #73 Bloomsburg vs #24 Purdue https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/7/bloomsburg/64/purdue 11/10 #70 Sacred Heart vs #50 Appalachian State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/67/sacred-heart/3/appalachian-state 11/10 #74 The Citadel vs #53 Drexel https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/71/the-citadel/23/drexel 11/10 #55 Edinboro vs #74 The Citadel https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/26/edinboro/71/the-citadel 11/10 #75 Cal Poly vs #65 California Baptist (Calif) https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/13/cal-poly/97/california-baptist-calif 11/10 #70 Sacred Heart vs #73 Bloomsburg https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/67/sacred-heart/7/bloomsburg 11/10 #70 Sacred Heart vs #74 The Citadel https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/67/sacred-heart/71/the-citadel Sunday 11/11 #32 Central Michigan vs #7 Michigan https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/15/central-michigan/40/michigan 11/11 #1 Penn State vs #54 Kent State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/60/penn-state/36/kent-state 11/11 #46 Old Dominion vs #11 Missouri https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/58/old-dominion/43/missouri 11/11 #51 Chattanooga vs #15 North Carolina https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/16/chattanooga/46/north-carolina 11/11 #52 South Dakota State vs #16 Arizona State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/68/south-dakota-state/4/arizona-state 11/11 #25 Iowa State vs #72 Southern Illinois Edwardsville https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/35/iowa-state/69/southern-illinois-edwardsville 11/11 #48 Air Force vs #58 Fresno State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/1/air-force/829/fresno-state 11/11 #59 Bucknell vs #47 Buffalo https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/11/bucknell/12/buffalo 11/11 #47 Buffalo vs #69 Cleveland State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/12/buffalo/18/cleveland-state 11/11 #47 Buffalo vs #71 VMI https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/12/buffalo/75/vmi 11/11 #67 Northern Colorado vs #58 Fresno State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/50/northern-colorado/829/fresno-state 11/11 #69 Cleveland State vs #59 Bucknell https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/18/cleveland-state/11/bucknell 11/11 #59 Bucknell vs #71 VMI https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/11/bucknell/75/vmi 11/11 #69 Cleveland State vs #71 VMI https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/18/cleveland-state/75/vmi

Our first set of rankings are here. Some big movers for names you all may recognize, Patrick Glory and Joey Melendez moved up 45 and 44 spots respectively. While at 285, some new true freshman heavyweight, not sure if you've heard of him, Gable Steveson, moved up 30 spots to close at #33 in the rankings. Patrick Glory: https://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/51100/glory-patrick/profile Joey Melendez: https://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/50805/melendez-joey/profile Gable Steveson: https://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/50624/steveson-gable/profile Here are the rankings for this week: Wrestler Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/starters Dual Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/dual Tournament Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/tournament As always, don't forget you can play around with Tourney Projection feature so you can predict the wrestler and team outcome for the NCAA tournament. Here's a link to that: https://www.wrestlestat.com/tourney/projection

The season is here!!! We have a short lineup since this is pretty much tournament season... Thursday 11/01 #17 Wisconsin vs #48 Buffalo https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/77/wisconsin/12/buffalo 11/01 #49 West Virginia vs #61 Northern Colorado https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/76/west-virginia/50/northern-colorado Friday 11/02 #54 Clarion vs #68 Gardner-Webb https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/17/clarion/28/gardner-webb 11/02 #63 VMI vs #66 George Mason https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/75/vmi/29/george-mason Saturday 11/03 #26 Navy vs #3 Ohio State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/44/navy/55/ohio-state 11/03 #28 Illinois vs #10 Missouri https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/32/illinois/43/missouri 11/03 #19 Virginia vs #36 Indiana https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/73/virginia/33/indiana 11/03 #16 Rutgers vs #53 Fresno State https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/66/rutgers/829/fresno-state Sunday 11/04 #37 North Dakota State vs #14 Northwestern https://www.wrestlestat.com/compare/dual/49/north-dakota-state/53/northwestern Reminder: Week 2 is open for the Fantasy Pick'Em contest....get your picks in here: https://www.wrestlestat.com/pickem/nextweek

If you're not familiar, this is just a for-fun season-long challenge where there are 20 feature matches per week. You select anywhere from 0 to all 20 of the winners. TO BE ELIGIBLE ON THE LEADERBOARD, you must have made a selection in at least half of the feature matches for the week/season. In years past, I have given away WrestleStat long-sleeve shirts to the top 3 placewinners. We will be doing that again this year, so make sure you get enough picks in to be eligible. If you're not already a member of WrestleStat, you can click the registration link below to get registered....reminder, THIS IS ALL FREE! Enjoy! Pick'Em: https://www.wrestlestat.com/pickem/nextweek Registration: https://www.wrestlestat.com/account/register Announcement: Just want to give everyone the news that next season, WrestleStat will be offering a full-blown fantasy wrestling system, just like Fantasy Football. There will be rosters, weekly matchups, waiver wire, etc. Stay tuned for more details as they come out.

The preseason rankings have been updated on WrestleStat to prepare for the start of the Fantasy Pick'Em contest tomorrow. These should contain all transfers, weight changes, redshirts, etc. In the past few days I've also made numerous improvements to the speed of each of these pages. If you notice anything taking longer than you think it should, don't hesitate to contact me. Here are the rankings: Wrestler Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/starters Dual Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/dual Tournament Rankings: https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/tournament Edit: Sorry, this new board format apparently does not auto-convert URL's to hyperlinks...

Thank you very much, Pish! Since the cat's pretty much out of the bag......I'll be starting development on a season-long Fantasy Wrestling feature for WrestleStat, ready for the 2019-2020 season. This will be just like NFL Fantasy football where you will select your starters each week, etc...VERY excited about this!

Hello Folks! It's taken HUNDREDS of hours, lots of testing, and lots of feedback (thank you), but the new version of WrestleStat is ready to go! I guarantee you I won't remember every item that has changed, but here are the highlights: 1) The entire layout/template of the site has been updated to a dark theme. I felt this made it easier on the eyes, especially if/when viewing in dark rooms. Some color-blind users have mentioned having problems with viewing some of the pages, if there are still pages/text on the site that is really hard to read, please let me know. (See contact info below) 2) Search feature has received an upgrade; you can now quickly search for dual or wrestler comparisons without having to go through the wrestler/team select dropdowns. For examples, just look at the text box at the top of the site (on EVERY page). 3) RSS Feeds have been incorporated into the site. You can now see up-to-date articles, blog posts, and podcasts for anything wrestling related. If there's a site/source out there that you follow that is wrestling related that's NOT on WrestleStat, let me know and I can get it added assuming it has a valid RSS feed url. 4) Your wrestlers and schools that you follow via WrestleTrak are no longer on the front page. There's now a link called "My WrestleTrak" that will take you to a page to view all of the schools and wrestlers that you follow. 5) Since the homepage has received a re-design and none of the old lists are there anymore (ie top wrestlers, top 10 dual rankings, recent recruits, upcoming duals, etc), they've been moved to their own pages. You can get to these lists from the "Lists" section on the homepage. 6) Rankings update (kind of). The main theme of the feedback I've received about the rankings is "why is EVERYONE ranked". Well, I've updated the wrestler rankings links so it now DEFAULTS to the starters-only version of rankings. You can still get to the rankings pages for ALL wrestlers at a weight by clicking the "View All Wrestlers for {Weight}" green button. 7) The rankings trend for a team/wrestler has also changed a little bit. Previously, there was a red/green arrow next to a number indicating how much that team/wrestler went up or down since the last set of rankings. This has changed so now you will see the standard ranking in white, then in "super"-text, there will be either a red or green number which indicates the trend. Those are the heavy-hitters at this point. I know there are still little tweaks that need to be made, if you spot something, let us know and will add it to our log. (ie the Donate page, spacing doesn't look very good) Dan Seifring aka Obrats has been cranking through the team rosters and schedules for this upcoming season, so those will continuing to change as the teams update their websites. A little note about the rankings....since the algorithm was updated a few months ago, I've found a bug that is not allowing me to re-process the preseason rankings. That bug is going to get fixed in the coming months. Lastly, as always, any feedback, either positive or negative, is ALWAYS welcome! https://www.wrestlestat.com Contact info: support@wrestlestat.com andegre@wrestlestat.com obrats@wrestlestat.com

One of the features I've been anxious to add this offseason was an RSS feed reader service. I designed it to combine all wrestling-related articles and blog posts into a single source so they are all visible in one spot so people don't have to go hunting for them. Obviously, there are RSS readers out there where individuals can specifically sign up for their favorite feeds, but the purpose of this was to combine all of these for the general wrestling public, and/or for fans that may not be that familiar with all of the different outlets. There are a few different pages that you can navigate to, to view feeds: - All feeds (accessed via the "Lists" section on the homepage - Feeds by source - view all feeds by a specific feed source - Feeds by school - team-specific feeds so if there are any feeds that are specific to a team (like Scott Connor's blog is specifically for Iowa), then you can view all of those feed items for a particular school. On the main feeds page (linked below), the feed source on the left is now a hyperlink so you can view all of the feeds for just that source. If a specific feed is for a school, there's a note at the bottom of the feed saying "Feeds are for.... | See all feeds for {school}". Click that and you can see all of the feeds that are assigned to that school. Lastly, all feeds are updated every 15 minutes, so the feeds are going to be very current. Right now there are about a dozen feeds loaded into the system. The page linked below will then display all of the feeds that have come from these services, and display them strictly by their publish date. If there are anymore feeds that are college wrestling related, please send them to either myself (andegre@wrestlestat.com), or obrats (obrats@wrestlestat.com), or just reply to this thread. Also in the future, I'll either add a "mailto:" option somewhere on the site where it will automatically open a new email where the user can enter the URL, then send, or I'll open up the "Add Feed" page to some more users so they can add them themselves. Let me know what you think of this: https://test.wrestlestat.com/feed/list

While I understand where you're coming from, that's not what the WrestleStat rankings are about. They are specifically for the career, not individual season. Regarding your last comment, I completely agree that there are still some head-scratching rankings in there with the updated algorithm, but keep in mind this new version of the algorithm also would be rated #1 by the "Rank the Rankers" point system. We'll continue working this offseason to try and address some of these anomalies a little better.

Hey WrestleStat fans! The website has been transitioned to the 2019 season. Go ahead and start updating starters to who they are projected to be for the upcoming season. Couple things to note: PreSeason rankings are NOT just the 2018 end of season rankings, less seniors. Since the algorithm has been updated, ALL rankings for every season have been run through the new algorithm, but ONLY the 2019 preseason values were updated. The reason for that is two-fold: 1) Since those other seasons are done, it doesn't make sense to go back and change them, and 2) It would take upwards of almost 8 hours of processing to run through the 100 weeks (5 seasons X ~20 weeks per season) of rankings that would need to be done in the production database There are no enhancements that come with this release. I'm working on MASSIVE changes to the website, but that code is not ready to be deployed. There are major look-and-feel/theme changes where I have to update every single page on the site, as well as architectural changes like making a schools conference season-specific since we have schools adding/dropping programs or changing conferences on a yearly basis, so it's going to take probably the entire summer. Now's the best time to get any requests in for modifications/enhancements to the site that aren't already known. Sometime in the future I'll develop a page that will show exactly what I'm working on so it's more transparent...but in the meantime, just send me or obrats a message and will get it added if it's not already on the list. Some examples of changes: "can the site open the videos of matches directly in the site, instead of navigating over to YouTube.com", or "use a voting system for the upcoming, potential feature matches instead of just a yes/no toggle", or "add a chat feature to the dual comparison and box score pages for comments about a specific dual or tournament". Lastly, if there are any schools that have added or dropped wrestling, or wrestlers that have transferred that aren't reflected on the site yet, please either reply, or send a message to myself or obrats and we can get those changes made. That's all for now! https://www.wrestlestat.com

Just wanted to give a brief update on the WrestleStat rankings. We've done over 50 tweaks and simulation runs. Going by the "Rank the Rankers" scoring model (please someone post a link to that results thread, I can't find it), the latest version of the algorithm would have WrestleStat in 1st place with 569 points!!! We are going to continue with some more tweaks/modifications and simulation runs, but this is EXTREMELY promising and exciting! Edit: found that post http://board.themat.com/index.php?/topic/17451-rank-the-rankers/?hl=%2Brank+%2Brankers And here's a link to the post that contains the scoring model: http://board.themat.com/index.php?/topic/17133-rank-the-rankers/?hl=%2Brank+%2Brankers

Not sure if anyone cares, but WrestleStat has gone through quite a few tweaks and iterations to the algorithm. Latest version has WrestleStat with a final number of 554. I went back and filled it out for 2017 and it ALSO came up with 554. WrestleStat algorithm is getting better, we'll continue to work on improving it this offseason. By the way, if anyone knows of a way to get past historical rankings from any of these services, please let me know as I'd like to see how the rest of the field did for last season as well to see where WrestleStat stands. Edit: I ran through 2017's to see how the "seeds" fared using that scoring model....540.