Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
How Fat Are High School Wrestlers?
Periodic look at the weight certification data for high school wrestlers. States include California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, …
As with college, every once in a while we drill down into the high school weight certification data.
For this past season, 2019-2020, we looked at data for 80,209 male wrestlers rostered for 3,127 teams in seven states: California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Washington and Nebraska. This data is is from February 2020.
You can explore the data on your own here.
In all states except Pennsylvania, roster size by school year declines from freshman (Fr.) though senior (Sr.) year. In aggregate, Pennsylvania freshman are 22% of the total roster whereas in all other states freshman account for 30-32% of the total state roster.
Average roster size varies considerably in this group from a low of 19.5 (Nebraska) to a high of 31.1 (Texas) wrestlers per team.
Weight Related
Except for 113 pounds, wrestler count by minimum weight class (MWC) is relatively flat from 106 to 145 pounds and then declines steeply from 152 to 285 pounds.
At certification, average body fat percentage ramps from 14.3% at 106 to 23.4% at 220 and then declines a bit for 285.
Roughly 32% of the wrestlers had an assessed body fat of more than 20%.
In this sample, 73,871 wrestlers had a certification weight exceeding their MWC. On average, this group had to drop 9.7% of their certification weight to reach MWC.
Excluding 220 and 285, If all wrestlers in this group dropped to their respective MWC, average body fat is 7.9% with a narrow range of 7.5% (138 MWC) to 9.1% (106 MWC).
Which State is the Fattest?
You decide.
High School Wrestling — Fat % by State
Reminder: End of the Road for iOS 9 and iOS 10.
It’s been a good ride.
We’re at the end of support for iOS 9 and iOS 10 devices. Apple obsoleted these versions of iOS a few years ago and the supporting hardware is starting to show its age. Problems are arising for Takedown users, some of which we can fix, some of which we can’t. An example of the latter: Trackwrestling no long supports Safari on iOS 9 for logging in. We rely on Safari for copying your match results and weigh-ins to your Track account. If Track doesn’t support Safari in iOS 9, then users aren’t able to upload their results to Trackwrestling using Takedown.
Next season, we will remove support for iOS 9 and 10. Please plan your iPad acquisitions accordingly.
iPads models impacted are:
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How Fat Are College Wrestlers?
Periodic look at the weight certification data for college wrestlers.
Every once in a while we drill down into the college weight certification data. For this past season, 2019-2020, we looked at data for 7,706 wrestlers rostered by 251 NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA wrestling programs. This data is from the week prior to NCAA Division I conference championships.
You can explore the data on your own here.
In this sample, 7,268 wrestlers have a certification weight (also called assessment weight) in excess of their Minimum Weight Class (MWC). Average body fat % at certification for this group is 15.9% with a range of 14% to 30.3% depending on MWC.
If all wrestlers in this group dropped to their MWC, the average body fat is 6.9% with a narrow range of 6.4% to 7.4% excluding the 285 weight class. Somewhat counterintuitively, at least for me, with all wrestlers (except 285 pounders) sucked down to their MWC the fattest weight class is 125 pounds at an average 7.4% body fat. Didn’t expect that.
For NCAA Division I wrestling teams, average body fat % at certification is 14.8% with a range of 13.6% to 16.7% depending on conference.
Other Fun Facts
Average roster size: 30.7
Redshirts: 19% of all rostered wrestlers
1st year of eligibility: 40% of all rostered wrestlers
Average weight of all wrestlers at certification: 174.2 pounds
Aggregate weight of all wrestlers at certification: 671 tons
Aggregate drop to get to Minimum Weight Class: 60.1 tons
Highest aggregate team weight at certification: 11,600 pounds
Highest average wrestler weight at certification, Division I: 184.1
Want to explore the data on your own?
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New Release: Takedown LIVE
This week we’ve released new versions of Takedown LIVE for iOS and Android. All users should download.
Takedown LIVE iOS has a significant update to the Scores screen. Now, today’s action — in progress and completed matches — is shown on the Scores screen and results prior to today are accessible via the History selection. Also, we’ve added a user setting for selecting the date range over which historical results are presented. There are a number of presets — last week, last two weeks, last month — along with the ability to select any set of start and end dates. These changes declutter the Scores screen and offer ultimate flexibility in choosing which historical results are displayed.
Takedown LIVE Android’s release improves the Scoring view by including bracket and round information for tournaments as well as competition level — Varsity, Junior Varsity, etc. — for scholastic (non-college) events.
Version 2.13
Better playlist management, YouTube-required consent, bug fixes.
In the app store now. All users should download.
In addition to bug fixes, there is one major feature addition and one YouTube-required consent dialogue.
Better Video Playlist Management
If you’re using Takedown’s video features, you’re most likely aware of YouTube’s daily playlist creation limit which is not published but is very real nonetheless. The daily playlist creation limit seems to be in the 10-25 range though, again, this is an unpublished YouTube limit.
Takedown creates, on your behalf, two types of playlists in your YouTube account: (1) Event Playlists and (2) Wrestler Playlists. These playlists are created during video upload in Manage Video. Since Takedown attempts to create the Event Playlist first, there’s a high probability of success especially if you haven’t uploaded any other events on the same day.
However, large teams attending early season tournaments are likely to hit the daily playlist creation limit as Takedown attempts to create a playlist for each wrestler for whom video has been uploaded. The consequence of hitting this limit is that the wrestler videos are uploaded to your YouTube account, but all of the corresponding Wrestler Playlists might not have been created.
As the season proceeds, each attempt to upload videos and create Wrestler Playlists is more successful and, eventually all Wrestler Playlists are created. However, newly created Wrestler Playlists won’t contain uploaded videos from earlier in the season when creating the Wrestler Playlist failed. These videos exist on your YouTube account, but are “orphaned” with respect to the associated Wrestler Playlist.
The new “Fix Playlists” feature (in Manage Video) attempts to correct the “orphaned” video problem by comparing the video contents of each Wrestler Playlist on YouTube with Takedown’s on-device database of successfully uploaded videos for the wrestler in question. If Takedown determines that there are one or more videos for a wrestler that aren’t in their corresponding YouTube Wrestler Playlist, it will add those videos to the Wrestler Playlist.
Note that “Fix Playlists” doesn’t create new YouTube playlists — it simply attempts to improve the accuracy of existing YouTube playlists.
For information on using Fix Playlists, see our Support article.
YouTube Required Consent
Every thirty days we are required by YouTube to solicit your consent for managing Takedown-created YouTube assets on your behalf. Respond accordingly when you see the consent dialogue in Manage Video.
Video Dooze and Dontz
YouTube is an open platform meaning that you can credential into your YouTube account outside of Takedown and do stuff like upload videos, delete/create playlists, edit videos, add channels and channel sections, etc. Some of this activity will not impact Takedown while certain activities will seriously degrade Takedown’s ability to manage YouTube content on your behalf.
To get the best video experience using Takedown, follow these suggestions.
New Product: Takedown LIVE for Android
Today we’re extending the reach of our market-leading Takedown LIVE app to include Android mobile phones and tablets.
Takedown LIVE for Android offers the substantially the same experience as Takedown LIVE for iOS:
→ Free
→ Real-time, score-by-score results
→ Match and riding time clocks
→ Dual meet team scores
→ Tournament round and bracket
→ Links to match video
→ Live and historical results
→ Follow multiple teams
Download Takedown LIVE for Android from the Google Play Store today!
Version 2.12.14
Takedown 2.12.14 is available for download from the App Store today. This release contains important improvements and bug fixes.
Recommend all users download this release.