Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users
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
Keep your key people informed.
If you want to be successful with Takedown, get your managers onto our email list.
In Takedown, go to the top level in My Team and add their Contact information. The app will add them to our email list and then they’ll receive our weekly message with helpful information.
At the end of the Season, remove their information from Takedown Contacts if you’d like. Also, they can unsubscribe from our email list at any time — that capability is included at the bottom of all emails.
Major Fall Release: Takedown Scoring and Stats 3.3
Major release of Takedown Scoring and Stats. Revamped Reports with Filters and Sort.
Takedown Scoring and Stats 3.3, our major fall release, is available for download in the App Store. Recommended for all users
Revamped Reports
This release features totally revamped and greatly improved Reports including:
Separate controls for Filters, Sorting and Options
Better Filter layout to improve selection and navigation
Added Sorting to most reports.
Increased number of Sort options
User configurable column selection for multi-column tables and Leaderboard
Filter/Sort/Other Options configured and saved individually for each Report.
Improved and common formatting for better visual appeal and readability
Re-engineered content for some reports with an eye towards performance assessment
See these support articles for more details.
Additional Improvements
Compliance with revised NCAA rules for three point takedown and three point near fall.
More robust roster import from text file with a flexibile header row
Numerous bug fixes
Other Changes
Minimum operating system for Takedown 3.3 is iOS 15.
While video recording, it is no longer possible to go to another section of Takedown and continue recording. We made this change to improve video recording reliability.
Emerging from the Darkness: High School Wrestling Participation 2022-2023
NFHS wrestling participation for 2022-2023. Coming out of the COVID darkness and into the light, boys rebounding to 2014-2015 levels. As expected, strong growth in girls programs with one concerning metric.
The NFHS recently released their high school sports participaton data for 2022-2023. Total wrestling participants was 305,593, a record in this millenia, representing 16% growth from the previous survey year. This growth far outpaces the year-year growth in total high school sports participation which was 3.1%.
Overall, boys wrestling rebounded to levels not seen since 2014-2015. While the number of boys teams has remained roughly constant, the number of participants increased by 11% to 256,466.
Girls wrestling continues to grow like a weed with 49,127 participants in 6,381 programs representing year-year growth of 55% and 33%, respectively. One in six high school wrestlers was a girl in 2022-2023. One cloud for girls wrestling is the anemic growth in average team size which was reported at 7.7 wrestlers per team. At historical growth rates, the average girls team won’t be capable of filling a minimum dual meet roster for another 20+ years.
Among high school sports participants, wrestling’s popularity has increased a bit. Wrestling’s share of all high school sports participants edged up slightly from 3.5% to 3.9%, with boys at 5.7% and girls at 1.5%.
Click on any chart to enlarge.
Number of Wrestling Programs
Number of Participants
Wrestlers Per Team
Wrestling Share of High School Sports
Fog in the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee
We might need to tap the brakes.
Recently, the NCAA wrestling rules committee proposed a slate of rule changes some of which involve scoring. Specifically, the committee proposed (1) increasing the point value for a takedown from two to three and (2) conditioning the riding time advantage point on earning a near fall.
One might reasonably assume the committee knows exactly what they’re trying to accomplish with these fundamental changes, and that they’ve developed some measurable success metrics.
Need for Situational Awareness
Various coaches, including the committee chair, have expressed the goals of the scoring changes as some variation of:
Avoiding undesirable scoring scenarios
Increasing excitement or ‘action’
These are meritorious goals to be sure.
So, let’s do it!
Not so fast.
The issue with proceeding might be twofold:
We don’t know where we are
We don’t know where we want to be
Data Free Decision-Making
Consider the goal of “avoiding undesirable scoring scenarios.“
Three questions should be answered before adopting a scoring change:
Which undesirable scoring scenarios? These scenarios? Any wrestling scoring scenario can be uniquely described as a sequence of scoring activity in specific periods.
How frequently do these scenarios occur now?
How frequently should these scenarios occur in the future?
Same argument goes for “increasing excitement or action.” What exactly does this mean?
Answering these questions revolves around collecting and analyzing data — readily available in Trackwrestling — and setting explicit objectives. For example, the committee might say:
“We want to reduce the occurrence of situations in which (describe scoring sequence here) is sufficient to win the match. Currently, this occurs in X% of all college matches. Our goal is to reduce this by (insert goal here). We are proposing (insert rule change here) to achieve this goal by (insert timeframe here).”
If this work hasn’t been done, then it is a matter of fact that we will never know if the proposed changes, if adopted, are effective.
And, that’s a bad outcome for wrestling.
Takedown v. Matboss
You don’t need another boss. You need help.
We are often asked “How does Takedown compare to Matboss?”
Here’s a comparison.
Version 3.2.5
The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.2.5.
Primarily bug fixes.
Recommended download for all users.
Version 3.2.4
The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.2.4. Bug fixes and two new helpful features.
Recommended download for all users.
Swap Scoring
Sometimes in a tournament, a Takedown operator will inadvertently enter scoring activity for the wrong wrestler, especially if they haven’t assigned the correct color for the wrestlers.
Now there’s an easy fix for this error! The scoring for the match can be swapped like this:
Access this feature via Event>>Matches>select match>>Edit.
Auto Rewind
Sometimes scorers don’t tap a scoring action coincident with the referee signal. They might be distracted or engaged watching the match. Or, it might just be how they roll.
During video review in Takedown, Auto Rewind compensates for this delay by allowing the user to select the the number of seconds to rewind prior to the scoring action. This is a persistent setting — it will remain at the value you choose until changed. The default value is five seconds.
Auto-Rewind is available in any Takedown video review.
Revised Shot Success Rate Statistic
We were doing it wrong. That’s fixed.
You might have noticed that the Shot Success Rate report didn’t jive with the Leaderboard’s display for Shot Success Rate. That was a bug.
In digging deeper, we found a small error in how we were calculating the Shot Success Rate statistic. It’s fixed now.
For the calculation, a shot is successful if the next scoring action (next scoring tap) is a takedown. Otherwise, the shot is unsuccessful.
So, your Shot Success Rate statistics will change and, now, the Leaderboard and Shot Success Rate reports are consistent.
Also, our resident math wizard is happier so it’s a win all around.
Version 3.2.3
The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.2.3.
Primarily bug fixes. Restored functionality related to roster import from a file.
Recommended download for all users.