Increasing YouTube Daily Upload Limit

To realize maximum value from Takedown’s YouTube integration, you need to do a little work on your YouTube channel.

YouTube limits daily uploads for new accounts. In the course of time, your track record of uploading appropriate content will result in YouTube allowing more daily video uploads. This organic process can take months.

You can, however, take steps to increase your daily upload limit. See this support article.

We strongly recommend all Takedown video users take action to increase their daily YouTube upload limit.

Train Your Operators Before the Season Starts

Once you’ve determined who will be operating the Takedown scoring interface, ask that person (or persons) to review our four-part tutorial on how to score a wrestling match.

For a good training exercise, see this article. Takedown operators that do this training exercise will be ready to go when the official blows the whistle.

Get ready for the season.

Version 3.3.4

The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.3.4

Primariy bug fixes.

Also, in Manage Video changed “Notify Wrestlers” to the sharing icon and moved it to the header area to be consistent with other sharing functionality throughout Takedown.

Recommended download for all users.

Takedown LIVE Android

The newest version of Takedown LIVE Android is available in the Google Play store.

Primariy bug fixes.

Recommended download for all Android users.

Version 3.3.3

The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.3.3

Primariy bug fixes.

Recommended download for all users.

Version 3.3.2

The newest version of Takedown Scoring and Stats is 3.3.2

In addition to bug fixes, this version of Takedown is compatible with Apple Macintosh computers.

Recommended download for all users.

Mac Compatibility

Takedown Scoring and Stats can be installed on Mac M1 (and later) computers running macOS 12 (and later). Download Takedown from the App Store on your Mac.

There are some limitations when working with Takedown on a Mac. See these support articles.

Otherwise, all Takedown features are available.

The Chart for Every Practice Room Wall

How Important are Takedowns?

We looked at over 2,000 matches for 63 wrestlers from six high school programs spread across the country and found that scoring more takedowns than your opponent is highly correlated with having a winning season.  Each wrestler had a minimum of ten matches and we considered only varsity events.

Winning Percentage v. Takedown Percentage

Thirty wrestlers scored on average the same or fewer takedowns than their opponent per match.  Of these wrestlers, only three (10%) wrestlers had winning seasons.  In contrast, thirty three wrestlers scored more takedowns, on average, than their opponent per match.  Of these wrestlers, thirty one (94%) wrestlers had winning seasons.

The data supports what we instinctively know: takedown proficiency is critical to becoming a successful competitor.  Next time an athlete says "prove it!", just post this graph on the practice room wall!

Statistics courtesty of Takedown Scoring and Stats app users.

Originally published October 2015.

Record Practice Attendance and Weight

Takedown 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.

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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.

3 Tasks for Success

Using Takedown for the first time in live competition can be overwhelming. Here are three things you can do to get your scorers prepared for using Takedown in the live competition context.

1. Transcribe from Paper Scorebook

Copying matches from a paper scorebook is the first step. This context doesn’t have the pressure of a live situation so that the scorer can take their time and get familiar with the scoring interface. It also affords an opportunity to schedule and configure Events. The task should include a full dual meet and some tournament matches. The user shouldn’t be concerned with the match clock — just start it and enter the scoring, then move on to the next match. The goal here is to replicate the paper scorebook.

If you don’t have a paper scorebook handy, try this training exercise from our support site.

2. Score from Recorded Video

Any video recording of a wrestling match will do. It could be of your team or just some matches on YouTube. This is the next step-up in difficulty as the action is live but can be paused if necessary. Don’t worry about getting the names of the competitors correct. The goal of this task is to simulate the pace of live competition. Keeping the match clock accurate is an important skill development area.

3. Score Challenge Matches in the Practice Room

The last step, this is live competition without the pressure of a large audience and, perhaps, an impatient official. It’s a safe environment. In this task, all the skills developed in steps 1 and 2 will be tested at a live pace. In addition, the user should practice using the video recording feature.

In our experience, if your scorer follows these three steps, they’ll be successful when scoring and video recording live competition. When the training is done, you can simply delete the matches or events so that they don’t corrupt your analytics. You could also create a “Training” Season for all this activity and that would keep all the data separate from your competition seasons.

One Last Item

Add your managers/scorers to the Contacts portion of Takedown located at the top level in My Team. Doing this will add them to our mailing list so that they will be informed. When a manager/scorer moves on, they can easily unsubscribe from our mailing list.

What Does the Data Say About Short-Time Scoring?

To gauge the relevance of short-time scoring as a predictor of victory, we gathered data from 7,355 matches wrestled by 181 athletes at 13 high schools, all users of Takedown Scoring and Stats.

We filtered the data as follows:

• Included varsity competition only

• Included wrestlers with greater than 20 periods of short-time scoring data

• Excluded exhibitions and forfeits from win-loss record

From this sample, we found the following:

1. With a negative Short-Time Scoring Average Point Advantage the probability of having a winning season is 41%.

2. With a zero or positive Average Point Advantage the probability of having a winning season is 82%.

This chart shows win percentage as a function of Average Point Advantage for this sample (each dot is a wrestler):

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Stats: Short Time Scoring vs. Winning Percentage

And, while the relevance of short-time scoring is hard to deny, we wondered if improved short-time scoring performance — a positive and increasing Average Point Advantage — is simply a matter of experience. That is, does advantage increase as a function of cumulative match experience?

Surprisingly, in this sample, the answer is no. There’s no meaningful correlation between experience (measured in matches) and short-time scoring performance.

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Short-Time Scoring v. Matches Wrestled

So, we know (at least in this sample) that short-time scoring proficiency can increase one’s chances of having a winning season. It also appears that short-time scoring performance doesn’t naturally improve with experience. Maybe scoring in short-time is a skill (or perhaps a mindset) requiring focus and practice.

Something to think about for coaches wanting to help wrestlers get to the next level.

If you’re interested in tracking short-time scoring performance, check out Takedown Scoring and Stats.