Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
New Feature: Record Practice Attendance, and Weigh In and Weigh Out
Recording practice attendance and wrestler weights could be easier with Takedown 3.0.
Takedown 3.0 includes the ability to record practice attendance as well as wrestler weigh in and weigh out.
This helpful new feature is accessed in the selections under each Season.
Here’s a quick “how to” for using the feature.
Weigh information can be entered manually or wirelessly via Befour’s bluetooth enable scale. If budget permits, wireless entry is the way to go — simple, accurate and quick.
Associated with this feature are the Practice Attendance and Weight Management reports available in the Reports section of Takedown.
Major Release: Takedown Scoring and Stats 3.0
Takedown Scoring and Stats release 3.0 is available in the App Store this week. After following this guidance, all users should download this version. Takedown 3.0 requires iOS 12 or higher.
Automatic Data Synchronization
Takedown 3.0 offers an impressive set of new features including automatic data synchronization between multiple iPads. This means that when a team’s iPads are connected to the Internet, all users will see the same data. This new capability replaces the Share Season export/import feature in Takedown version 2.
Associated with this exciting capability, Takedown 3.0 implements a new account creation and login feature. If you’ve previously registered for Takedown LIVE, you can use that email/password combination to login to Takedown. If not, you’ll be prompted to create an account when Takedown 3.0 first launches. Your Takedown login credentials should be securely retained.
Once you’ve logged in and your data has been uploaded to the cloud, any user with your account credentials can log into Takedown on any other compatible iPad. This means, for example, that anyone with an iPad — a parent, for example — can be enlisted to score matches and record video.
It also means that you should exercise caution in giving out your credentials as any mistakes — accidental deletions, for instance — are irreversibly propagated to all iPads.
Takedown still retains its ability to work off-line without an Internet connection.
Flexible Subscription Sharing
Takedown 3.0 greatly improves subscription sharing by allowing any Takedown installation logged in with your Takedown account credentials to use your scoring and video recording subscriptions. Previously, subscriptions were available only on iPads registered to the Apple ID of the original subscription purchaser. This requirement is eliminated with Takedown 3.0.
Unknown Wrestler
The unidentified wrestler problem is elegantly handled in Takedown 3.0 by offering “Unknown Wrestler” as an opponent selection. This capability replaces the current practice of creating “Unknown Team” entries in the Opponent Team list and “Unknown Wrestler” in an Opponent Team roster. Once the wrestler identity is established, you can edit the committed match to change “Unknown Wrestler” to the identified opponent’s team and name.
Practice Attendance
New in Takedown 3.0, this feature captures practice attendance status for each rostered wrestler. Attendance status choices are Present, Absent or Late decorated with Excused or Unexcused. The new Practice Attendance report presents all of this data in an easily digestible format.
Practice weigh in/out is moved to the new Practice Attendance interface which has the dual benefit of simplifying the weight recording workflow and presenting all weight data for a single practice in one view.
More Improvements
Single tap Roster and Opponent Team refresh from our online database
Tie-breaker detail and winner calculation by criterion
Improved Contact management
Customizable Equipment list
Linking of existing YouTube video to re-scored match
These are all significant improvements to Takedown, especially the data auto-synchronization feature. We look forward to hearing from you about your experience using these new features in the upcoming season.
How Fat Are College Wrestlers? 2020 - 2021 Edition
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, 2020 - 2021, we looked at 8,413 wrestlers rostered by 298 NCAA and NAIA wrestling programs. This data is from the week of 3/1/2021, just in time for the Big Ten and NCAA Championships.
You can explore the data on your own here.
From this initial group, 7,907 wrestlers had a certification weight above their Minimum Weight Class (MWC), meaning these athletes must lose weight to achieve MWC. Average body fat % at certification for this group is 16.2% with a range of 14% to 29% depending on MWC.
If all wrestlers in this group dropped to their MWC, the average body fat is 7.1% with a narrow range of 6.5% to 7.7% excluding the 285 weight class. As in 2019-2020, if all wrestlers (except 285 pounders) sucked down to their MWC the fattest weight class is 125 pounds at an average 7.7% body fat.
For NCAA Division I wrestling teams, average body fat % at certification is 15.3% with a range of 13.8% to 16.2% depending on conference.
Other Fun Facts
Average roster size: 28.2
Redshirts: 20% of all rostered wrestlers
1st year of eligibility: 41% of all rostered wrestlers
Average weight of all wrestlers at certification: 175.8 pounds
Aggregate weight of all wrestlers at certification: 739 tons
Aggregate drop to get to Minimum Weight Class: 66 tons
At certification and on average, a wrestler from:
Univ of Michigan weighs more than Michigan State by 2.7 pounds
Univ of Oklahoma weighs more than Oklahoma State by .9 pounds
Iowa State weighs more than Univ of Iowa by 1.4 pounds
Penn State weight more than Ohio State by 1.6 pounds
Army weighs more than Navy by 14.2 pounds
Air Force weighs more than Navy by 1.3 pounds
More Information
Version 2.13.10
New release of Takedown Scoring and Stats.
In the App Store now, release 2.13.10 includes:
Correction for error in NCAA rules book
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.
Congrats!
Our customers are amazing.
Recently, our our users collectively achieved an impressive milestone having scored more the 400,000 matches — 28,571 high school dual meet equivalents — using Takedown Scoring and Stats. Holy smokes, that’s a lot of digital scoring!
Congratulations on leading our sport into the digital age.
Here are some other stats about user activity.
“70,000+”
“55,000+”
“100,000+”
“40,000+”
Top Ten Digital Wrestling Teams
Smiths Station
Ansley-Litchfield
Midview
Columbia
Shelbyville
New Richmond
Tullahoma
Western Boone
Bryan
Seneca Valley
Top Ten Digital Wrestling States
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Kansas
California
Tennessee
Georgia
Nebraska
South Carolina
Montana
By any measure, impressive work. Nice job, digital wrestling ninjas!
Understanding the YouTube Scoring Transcript
Uploaded match videos on YouTube have an embedded scoring transcript. Here’s what it means.
Scoring transcripts are available in Takedown Scoring and Stats and on the YouTube platform using a desktop or laptop computer. This post explains the format of the scoring transcript on YouTube.
Takedown scoring transcripts on YouTube are implemented as closed captions and serve three purposes:
Provides an in-video display of match score, scoring activity and match clock
Offers a full visual record of all scoring activity in the match
Enables ScoreSeek functionality allowing immediate navigation to any scoring activity
Accessing the Scoring Transcript
If you’re unware of how to access the scoring transcript on YouTube, please see this tutorial.
When closed captions are turned on, the scoring transcript appears to the right of the video:
Decoding the Scoring Transcript
Here’s a close up of the scoring transcript with a description below for all the annotated elements.
Beginning of Period — demarks period transitions
Match Score — your wrestler is first number, opponent wrestler if after the “-” symbol
Match Clock — match clock value when activity occurred
Elapsed Time — elapsed time since match start in minutes and seconds
Choice — position choice at beginning of period
Scoring Type — E1 for escapte, T2 for takedown and so on. “+” is for your wrestler, “-” is for opponent wrestler. Note the ⬤ symbol is a shot attempt.
To use ScoreSeek, click on any of the scoring transcript entries and the video will immediately proceed to that point in the match. Also note the scroll bar to the right of the transcript allowing access to entries that are off screen.
There you have it, a full guide to using the scoring transcript on YouTube. Check it out!
Understanding the Takedown LIVE Scoring Presentation
Here’s some help for understanding the format and notation presented in Takedown LIVE.
Takedown LIVE, the mobile, fan-focused companion app for Takedown Scoring and Stats, displays real-time and historical bout scoring for hundreds of wrestling teams.
Takedown LIVE’s Scores screen presents bout details and scoring notation as shown here.
Here’s a description of each element in the scoring grid:
The scoring notation is substantially in accordance with high school and college conventions. Here’s a decoder for the scoring notation:
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!