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Yeah, totally surreal. He eyed the podium for about 15 seconds. I was almost sure he would step to the top and attempt to start the wave.

CNN gets better ratings covering train wrecks than covering spelling bee's

Wash, Rinse, Repeat From hook and half a month ago "Your drum-beating and wild claims will turn people against this kid, not because of him, but by you. Consequently, if he fails, there will be many that will mercilously mock him/you. If that happens I fully expect to see your self-righteous horror at posters "cutting down a kid" You claim he will be on the sectional regional and semi state podiums, but that state is "up to him". I can infer that your incredible coaching will carry him through the first three levels, but you are abandoning him at state? You said in an earlier post "that his wrestling speaks for itself". I could not agree more, because your comments reek of garlic and horseradish. Until then, he is another freshman with a loud-mouth coach. You may opt to double down. He wins a medal and you rub it in my face. Guess what? The only thing worse than a poor loser is a poor winner. At that point, people will actively root against him. He will be another sophomore, with a state medal, and a loudmouth coach. I wish brendon well, and I hope that Danny Bell will put a sock in it." Wake up nimrod. The hudkins bandwagon grows with every word you type. You were absolutely gifted an opportunity that you did not earn and you are already into picking him to beat hudkins? Just shut up. Have you ever heard Harper or Tonte or Hasseman get on this board and say "my 4 seed at this weight has a real shot at beating the #1 kid." No, they don't do that, they are too busy focusing on the task at hand instead of hyping their kids up on the internet.

If you are offended by that, my friend, you won't be long for this board.

So you don't think that the trainers would have let him step on the line for 1 second, the ref blow the whistle, then the South bend coach throw in the towel and default with 8 seconds left in the match?There is no way the trainers would stop this situation from happening. I've seen it be done. Also, fans booing a situation is not always "picking" on a high school kid. My heart hurts when I see these things.

Please shed light on how to determine this process

Oh you just wait.. NP state finalist grow on trees. Carroll will tremble at their dominance. Be afraid joe

Everyone said MD was done? I'm sure hook and half and wrestle man were leading that bandwagon. #BobcatBias

Undefeated on JV.....which counts right???

Evansville Bosse didn't qualify?

Didn't want to look at 6 seeds because a lot of weight classes advanced to 5/6 matches with only wins as forfeits. To place top 4 you usually have to beat someone with a pulse. Your method shows a zero result for a number one seed winning a sectional. I'm not worried about the differential

Ben Davis has like 25,000 less students than IU. You are a real fool if you can't recognize Ben Davis is a small school

Ok here we go. Arbitrary data regurgitation about to commence. I looked at the top 4 seeds in both the castle and central sectionals. If a wrestler met or eclipsed his seed, his minimum seed met is 100% If a wrestler was seeded 2nd and got 4th, it is 0% Here are the results team by team MSM % MD 13 of 14 (92.8%) Memorial 12 of 13 (92.3%) Castle 10 of 10 (100%) Mount Vernon 8 (80%) Gibson Southern 7 of 8 (87.5%) Central 5 of 8 (62.5%) Heritage Hills 5 of 7 (71.4%) Reitz 5 of 6 (83.3%) Pike Central 4 of 6 (66.7%) North 3 of 6 (50%) Tecumseh 3 of 5 (60%) Boonville 2 of 5 (40%) Minimum requirement of 5 top 4 seeded contestants. Observations 1: #smallsamplesize 2: teams with the best MSM % are the teams with the toughest strength of schedule 3: teams with the worst MSM% have the weakest strength of schedule Could be cool to see theory applied to different sectionals whee some teams like Avon, New Pal, etc who wrestle hammer schedules do in relation to their better record counterparts. This literally means nothing, just bored at work. Trying to make my case for employment when decbell starts a wrestling branch of fangraphs

My theory is to test whether strength of schedule has a positive direct corrolation on out placing your seed in sectional. The idea of worse record from tougher comp= lower seed due to record. MR Chastain started a thread on this and I was just trying to quantify it. You being the west sides amalgam of Mike Wicker and Bill James, I thought you'd be a great candidate to try it out.

Dear Hook and Half (aka Curt Zenthopher disciple), please in your spare time take this theory a little further. Can you go back to the central and castle sectionals and take a look at what schools wrestled to, or better than their sectional seed. Say Md had 12 wrestlers place at or above their seed out of 14. That would be an 85.7% seed minimum met. My hypothesis: you will find a positive corrolation in minimum seed met percentage (MSM%) within the schools with the highest strength of schedule. Post hypothesis theory. I imagine GS would swap central on SOS if GS dualed MD.