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What Does the Data Say About Short-Time Scoring?
To gauge the relevance of short-time scoring as a predictor of victory, we gathered data from 7,355 matches wrestled by 181 athletes at 13 high schools, all users of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
We filtered the data as follows:
Included varsity competition only
Included wrestlers with greater than 20 periods of short-time scoring data
Excluded exhibitions and forfeits from win-loss record
From this sample, we found the following:
With a negative Short-Time Scoring Average Point Advantage the probability of having a winning season is 41%.
With a zero or positive Average Point Advantage the probability of having a winning season is 82%.
This chart shows win percentage as a function of Average Point Advantage for this sample (each dot is a wrestler):
And, while the relevance of short-time scoring is hard to deny, we wondered if improved short-time scoring performance — a positive and increasing Average Point Advantage — is simply a matter of experience. That is, does advantage increase as a function of cumulative match experience?
Surprisingly, in this sample, the answer is no. There’s no meaningful correlation between experience (measured in matches) and short-time scoring performance.
So, we know (at least in this sample) that short-time scoring proficiency can increase one’s chances of having a winning season. It also appears that short-time scoring performance doesn’t naturally improve with experience. Maybe scoring in short-time is a skill (or perhaps a mindset) requiring focus and practice.
Something to think about for coaches wanting to help wrestlers get to the next level.
If you’re interested in tracking short-time scoring performance, check out Takedown Scoring and Stats.
A Word On Email Addresses and Contacts
Credentialing is the price we pay for online privacy.
Takedown is no different — every account needs a secure identity comprised of an email address and password.
If you want to ease credentialing headaches, here are a few tips.
Get a Team-Focused Email Address
The challenge with using a personal email address for logging in to Takedown (or YouTube) is that people — parents, coaches — move on, email addresses get deleted or the email owner becomes unreachable.
Get a team-focused Gmail address and use this address for logging in to Takedown and for uploading video. Gmail addresses are free and each one is automatically associated with a YouTube account.
Five Places to Use One Email Address
Make your life easier by using the same team-focused email address for these five items:
Takedown login credentials
Creating an Apple ID for purchasing Takedown subscriptions
YouTube uploads
Configuring Apple mail app
Creating an X(formerly Twitter) account and any other social media account
Takedown Primary Contact
In Takedown’s Contact manager, tag any entry as a ‘Primary Contact.’ This contact will receive all emails from us. Contacts not tagged as “Primary” will receive very few emails from us.
Your Takedown login email address is automatically tagged in our database as a “Primary Contact.” You do not need to add your log in email to the Takedown Contact manager.
Get Your Managers in the Loop
Avoid the Season Start Blues
Record Team and Wrestler Goals in Takedown
Update: Digital Weight Management
Last fall we added to digital weight management to Takedown Scoring and Stats. Developed in partnership with Befour, a leading wrestling scale manufacturer, this new feature enabled paperless weight capture — either manually or via Befour’s bluetooth scale — and a variety of reports and graphs for tracking athlete weight.
During this past high school season (2018-2019), more than 150 schools used this feature to record 17,000+ weigh-ins. Of these weigh-ins, 75% were recorded wirelessly using Befour’s bluetooth scale.
Top five states for digital weight management:
Virginia
Ohio
Wisconsin
California
Pennsylvania
And the top ten programs:
Chantilly, Virginia
Frederick High School, Maryland
Saginaw Heritage, Michigan
Middletown, New York
Chilton High School, Wisconsin
Garden City High School, Kansas
Kirtland High School, Ohio
Palo Alto High School, California
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Revere High School, Ohio
Not surprisingly, most weights were recorded early in the week:
This is an exciting and encouraging start for this new-to-wrestling capability. We will continue working with our partner, Befour, to enhance this feature and promote its adoption throughout the wrestling community.
Related content
Original announcement:
https://www.levelchanger.com/blog/2018/10/2/new-release-paperless-weight-management
NCAA Division I Weight Management — Princeton Article
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/03/necessary-difficult-fair-an-investigation-of-wrestling-and-weight-at-princeton
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