Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
Version 2.13.9
New release of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
In the App Store now, release 2.13.9 includes bug fixes.
Before updating your installation to this newest release, be advised of this issue concerning iOS 9/10 devices.
Otherwise, this release is recommended for all users.
Two Simple Ways to Share Match Video
You need to get match video out to your wrestlers and coaches, maybe family, friends and fans, too. Here’s how.
You’ve done all the hard work of scoring, video recording and video uploading. Now, it’s time to distribute this critical content to relevant audiences. What’s the easiest way to accomplish this task?
Notify Wrestlers
In Manage Video, lower left corner tap “Notify Wrestlers” which will bring up an email composer pre-filled with:
Email addresses of all wrestlers in the event for which match video is uploaded. Note that for this to work properly, you’ll need to have added email addresses to your roster.
A meaningful subject that includes the name of the event and the date.
All the match titles as hyperlinks to the uploaded video in the body of the email address. Clicking on the match title in the body of the email will play the associated video.
Since this is an email composer, you can add/change/delete any email address. For example, if you want to also send this email message to yourself, add your email address to the header. In this case, we added the email address coachjones@lshs.teacher.com in the cc: field.
Remember to send the email messsage!
Publish to Takedown LIVE
If during scoring you also published your matches to Takedown LIVE, then you can later tag those Takedown LIVE-published matches with a play button for the associated video. In Manage Video, under the column “Publish to Takedown LIVE” simply slide the button to the right to tag a match with a video link.
Here’s what those tagged matches look like in Takedown LIVE. Tapping the red play icon will play the associated video.
Takedown LIVE — Matches with Video
And there you have it, two easy ways to distribute video. Give either or both a try!
Version 2.13.8
New release of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
In the App Store now, release 2.13.8 includes bug fixes pertaining to audio drop outs during video recording.
Before updating your installation to this newest release, be advised of this issue concerning iOS 9/10 devices.
Otherwise, this release is recommended for all users.
Version 2.13.7
New release of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
In the App Store now, release 2.13.7 includes bug fixes and improved diagnostics.
This release is recommended for all users.
Version 2.13.6
New release of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
In the App Store today, release 2.13.6 includes bug fixes and an in-app shortcut to manage your subscriptions.
This release is recommended for all users.
Manage Subscriptions
Available in the Takedown Store, Manage Subscriptions is a shortcut that will take you directly to Apple’s Subscriptions section.
Takedown Store — Manage Subscriptions shortcut
Tap on any of your Takedown subscriptions to gather information or make changes. Remember to tap Done when finished and, if you want to return to the app, tap Takedown in the upper left corner.
Bye, Bye iOS 9, 10 and 11
Last December and March we announced our intention to end support for iOS 9 and 10 in the 2020 - 2021 season.
Takedown Scoring and Stats release 2.13.5, available today in the App Store, is the last Takedown release supporting iOS 9 and 10. The iPad models “stuck” at iOS 9 or 10 are iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad Mini 1.
Future Takedown Scoring and Stats releases will require iOS 12 or higher (note: any iPad running iOS 11 can upgrade to iOS 12).
If you have an impacted iPad model, you can continue using 2.13.5. We strongly suggest migrating to an iPad supporting iOS 12+ as soon as circumstances permit so that you can enjoy the benefits of future releases.
Moving Data to A New iPad
To migrate your consolidated Takedown Scoring and Stats data to a new iPad:
On your old iPad, email each of your Takedown Seasons to your new iPad using the Share Season feature.
On your new iPad, retrieve the emails sent in step #1 and import each email message’s attachment into Takedown. Double tap the attachment to start the import process. Each email message attachment represents a Season.
When finished importing your Seasons, check to make sure the databases are identical by comparing Reports from the old and new iPads. For example, running the Scoring Details report (for all Seasons) on the old and new iPads should yield the same results.
Note that in order to use an existing subscription, the new iPad will need to be registered to the Apple ID of the subscription purchaser.
Version 2.13.5
Arriving in the App Store today, release 2.13.5 includes bug fixes. This release is recommended for all users.
Also, this is the last release supporting iOS 9, 10 and 11.
Version 2.13.3
Details about our latest release of Takedown Scoring and Stats to the App Store.
Takedown Scoring and Stats release 2.13.3 is available for download from the App Store. This release is highly recommended for all users and includes changes and improvements as follows:
Bug fixes, internal improvements
YouTube-mandated changes to video uploads and privacy policy acceptance
Feature retirement: Scoring Graphics
Bug Fixes, Internal Improvements
This release fixes a serious bug that caused video previously uploaded to YouTube to disappear from the Mange Video list. If you are using Takedown’s video feature for uploading to YouTube, it is critical that you install this update before accessing the Manage Video portion of the app.
In addition, we improved our bug diagnostic capability by migrating to a better technology.
YouTube Changes
As a YouTube Developer, we are obligated to implement our YouTube-related features in accordance with certain Google and YouTube terms and conditions, policies and technical limitations. As such, we have made these changes in Takedown:
In order to use Takedown’s YouTube features, the user must explicitly accept our Privacy Policy.
Automatically created wrestler and event YouTube playlists are no longer available. YouTube does not allow for automatically created playlists at the scale required by our user community. We have tried to work around this limitation without success. YouTube is aware of the issue and we will revisit should YouTube change its policy. Users can still manually create and organize wrestler or event playlists on the YouTube platform.
Automatically created YouTube channel sections for each Takedown Season is no longer available. Users can still manually create YouTube channel sections.
For each video uploaded to YouTube, the user can optionally specify the video title, video description and privacy setting.
So Long Scoring Graphics
A few years ago we introduced auto-generated, network-delivered, high quality scoring graphics in support of dedicated, stand-alone video production systems. An advanced feature requiring in-depth video production and networking expertise, the Scoring Graphics feature was under-utilized by our users and, at the same time, required significant ongoing engineering investment. We decided to invest in our engineering resources in other capabilities that would be more valuable to our users.
How Expensive is an NCAA Division I Wrestling All-American?
Updated look at the cost of producing a NCAA Division I wrestling All-American with reference to the March 2019 championships.
Producing a Division I Wrestling All-American is Expensive
Back in 2016 we first looked at the cost of producing a Division I wrestling All-American. Here we update that analysis for the most recent Division I Championship in March 2019.
Of the 70 participating teams, the twenty most expensive programs collectively spent about $32.3 million annually (averaged over four years).
These programs captured 59 (74%) of the All-American awards at the 2019 Championships.
On average, this group of teams invests roughly $521,000 annually per All-American with a range of $322,000 to $1.86 million.
Most Efficient College Wrestling Programs
Many of the most expensive programs are also pretty efficient at producing All-Americans. However, the two most efficient programs — Princeton and Cornell — aren’t in the group of the twenty most expensive programs.
We can also look at how much it costs to produce a team point in the championship. This metric encompasses more teams than cost per All-American. The chart below compares annual expenses (averaged over four years) versus championship team points.
The line on the chart is statistically fitted to the data (though the fit isn’t great) and attempts to show the average relationship between expenses and team points. To the extent that this line is meaningful, it is desire-able to operate above or the the left of the line as this represents above average performance. Conversely, operating below the line represents below average performance. Again, the line doesn’t fit the data very precisely so these conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt.
Know Your Numbers
Wrestling has been under assault for quite some time. When we did this analysis back in 2016, Boise State’s program had just been terminated. Recently, Stanford’s wrestling program has been threatened with discontinuance justified, in large measure, on financial grounds. It helps to know where you stand in terms of delivering results for funds invested when your program’s future hangs in the balance.