Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
High School Wrestlers -- Fat % by Minimum Weight Class 2015-16 and 2014-2015
How fat are high school wrestlers? It depends...
We looked at over 190,000 high school wrestlers in the 2015-2016 season and found an average fat percentage at certification of 16.6%. By minimum weight class, the average fat percentage is:
No big surprises here, just a good set of numbers to have handy. We'll take another look next season.
Addendum (4/15/16)
We also went back and looked at 2014-2015. Slightly smaller sample size, but otherwise very similar:
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Fun Facts: NCAA Division I Championship Finals
Next time you play college wrestling trivia with your buddies, use these facts to your advantage.
Congratulations to the NCAA for a wonderful championship in Madison Square Garden! For all you college wrestling trivia fans, here are some fun facts about the Saturday night Division I finals:
- Total number of match points scored: 103
- By winner: 65
- Match points by period:
- 1st: 24
- 2nd: 36
- 3rd: 41
- OT: 2
- Average margin of victory: 2.7 points
- Excluding 149 pound match: 1.8 points
- Percentage of periods with no scoring: 9.7 % (3 of 31)
- Total number of
- Takedowns: 26
- Near falls: 1
- Reverses: 0
- Takedown + escapes, percentage of all match points: 87%
- First takedown winners: 7
- 3rd period comebacks: 1
- Points scored in the last 10 seconds of any period: 11
- # of matches won by red: 8
- Probability of red winning 8 of 10 matches with random color assignment: 4.4%
Stats provided by Takedown Scoring and Stats.
Did Sam Jones Return his Singlet and Warmups?
A new report to help you management your equipment costs.
For those of you using Takedown's equipment tracking features (click here), we'll have an associated report for you in an upcoming release. The report is a straightforward presentation of which wrestler has which piece of equipment, issue and return dates and associated notes. There's also a summary so you'll know how many pieces of gear are still outstanding. For programs interested in controlling costs and preserving precious funding for important stuff, like tournament fees, here's a report that you'll find handy:
This is just an example. Look for this report in the next Takedown release coming to an App Store near you soon.