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It is very clear by looking at these points, your lineup has to be filled with All Americans to compete for a team trophy. Sprately was 1 match away from AA and still only scored 2 points. Based on this, any roster spot who doesn't have someone who has a good chance to AA needs a good long look - that is if the goal for the team is to compete at the highest level.Spratley - 2
Fix - 17.5
Jamison - 0
Williams - 3.0
TT - 1.5
Olejnik - 10
Thompson - 0
Plott - 20.5
Surber - 0
Doucet - 1.5
Our 3 All Americans scored 48 points, our other 7 athletes scored 8 points. That says it all.It is very clear by looking at these points, your lineup has to be filled with All Americans to compete for a team trophy. Sprately was 1 match away from AA and still only scored 2 points. Based on this, any roster spot who doesn't have someone who has a good chance to AA needs a good long look - that is if the goal for the team is to compete at the highest level.
Actually, if we just started punching 8-10 Wrestlers through to the quarters, there is 16 to 20 points right there.It is very clear by looking at these points, your lineup has to be filled with All Americans to compete for a team trophy. Sprately was 1 match away from AA and still only scored 2 points. Based on this, any roster spot who doesn't have someone who has a good chance to AA needs a good long look - that is if the goal for the team is to compete at the highest level.
In some cases, just winning matches seems like the next best case.We need to do more than just win matches. We need to try to dominate the other guy.
Cornell with 9 qualifiers, had 3 all Americans and one kid go 0-2, they placed second. It might take more than all Americans.It is very clear by looking at these points, your lineup has to be filled with All Americans to compete for a team trophy. Sprately was 1 match away from AA and still only scored 2 points. Based on this, any roster spot who doesn't have someone who has a good chance to AA needs a good long look - that is if the goal for the team is to compete at the highest level.
I'll be more specific. With the way the team scoring works, a high placing team gets the vast majority of its points from placement points (All Americans) and bonus points (dominant wins). A normal win is only worth 1 point on the top side or half a point on the back side. So a wrestler just winning a couple matches at the tournament does virtually nothing for the team points unless they are very dominant wins. Cornell had the same number of all americans as us but they had a lot of dominant wins. So getting only low placing AA's and no bonus points doesn't cut it. Cornell had high placing AA's with lots of bonus points. We only had one guy on the team with a lot of bonus points - Plott.Cornell with 9 qualifiers, had 3 all Americans and one kid go 0-2, they placed second. It might take more than all Americans.
Conversely Nebraska had 5 all Americans and finished one place ahead of OSU
There is more than one way to screw a cat, and all of them are painful.I'll be more specific. With the way the team scoring works, a high placing team gets the vast majority of its points from placement points (All Americans) and bonus points (dominant wins). A normal win is only worth 1 point on the top side or half a point on the back side. So a wrestler just winning a couple matches at the tournament does virtually nothing for the team points unless they are very dominant wins. Cornell had the same number of all americans as us but they had a lot of dominant wins. So getting only low placing AA's and no bonus points doesn't cut it. Cornell had high placing AA's with lots of bonus points. We only had one guy on the team with a lot of bonus points - Plott.
I agree there is - to get second place. To get first place now there is pretty much only one way - need about 5 Champs, 7 All Americans and gobs of bonus points.There is more than one way to screw a cat, and all of them are painful.
I think it is easier to count on more top side advancement points combined with placement points to generate more points. Conversely, if you had 10 guys place 8th you'd have 10 AA's and could possibly still finish on the bottom side of the top 10.
Bonus points are hard to come by though. Getting a hammer like Hendrickson would be great for that aspect though.
That’s trueI agree there is - to get second place. To get first place now there is pretty much only one way - need about 5 Champs, 7 All Americans and gobs of bonus points.