AA's last seven years

[matter7172]

Denny Diehl (is he the real Diehl? ) posted an interesting table yesterday in the Lehigh Wrestling News emagazine.

He summarized AA's by program for 2011 through and including 2017.

I was surprised to see how tight the top 4 programs were - PSU 40, Iowa and Minnesota 38 and OkS 36. Ohio State had only 25 (one head of VaTech and two ahead of Missouri and three behind Cornell).

It was almost shocking, given PSU's six titles and Ohio State's one during that time, how close the numbers were. The combination of guys at the top of the podium and bonus points is lethal.

 

[nitlion6]

Denny Diehl (is he the real Diehl? ) posted an interesting table yesterday in the Lehigh Wrestling News emagazine.

He summarized AA's by program for 2011 through and including 2017.

I was surprised to see how tight the top 4 programs were - PSU 40, Iowa and Minnesota 38 and OkS 36. Ohio State had only 25 (one head of VaTech and two ahead of Missouri and three behind Cornell).

It was almost shocking, given PSU's six titles and Ohio State's one during that time, how close the numbers were. The combination of guys at the top of the podium and bonus points is lethal.

No matter how good a tournament someone else is having it is tough to overcome 5 finalists and 20 to 30 bonus points.

 

[Brian LB-U]

Here are PSU's placements in the top 2 the past seven years:

2010-11 Wright (1), Taylor (2), Molinaro (2) (Long and Ruth both placed 3rd)
2011-12 Molinaro (1), Ruth (1), Taylor (1) Wright (2), Nico (2) (Dylan placed 3rd)
2012-13 Ruth (1), Wright (1), Nico (2), Taylor(2), Brown (2)
2013-14 Ruth (1), Taylor (1) (Nico placed 3rd)
2014-15 Brown (1) (McIntosh placed 3rd)
2015-16 Nico (1), Zain (1), McIntosh (2), Nickal (2), Nolf (2)
2016-17 Zain (1), Nolf (1), Cenzo (1), Hall (1), Nickal (1)

I'm not going to look up the other schools, but that's a lot of placement and bonus points!

 

[Real-Lion]

Here are PSU's placements in the top 2 the past seven years:

2010-11 Wright (1), Taylor (2), Molinaro (2) (Long and Ruth both placed 3rd)
2011-12 Molinaro (1), Ruth (1), Taylor (1) Wright (2), Nico (2) (Dylan placed 3rd)
2012-13 Ruth (1), Wright (1), Nico (2), Taylor(2), Brown (2)
2013-14 Ruth (1), Taylor (1) (Nico placed 3rd)
2014-15 Brown (1) (McIntosh placed 3rd)
2015-16 Nico (1), Zain (1), McIntosh (2), Nickal (2), Nolf (2)
2016-17 Zain (1), Nolf (1), Cenzo (1), Hall (1), Nickal (1)

I'm not going to look up the other schools, but that's a lot of placement and bonus points!

Yes. Champions make a HUGE difference....The goal in our program is not just to AA....The goal is to be National Champ and DOMINATE every guy you face....

 

[Franklin_Restores_TheTradition]

No matter how good a tournament someone else is having it is tough to overcome 5 finalists and 20 to 30 bonus points.

Well PSU's average bonus-point differential per year (20-30 points) is the equivalent of 2 middle-level AAs per year or an additional Champion per year! So if you convert the bonus-point differential per year to two additional mid-level AAs per year over the 7 years....it would be more like PSU having 54 AAs over the 7 year span to the next closest program having 36....

This doesn't even factor in that PSU averaged far more "placement points" per AA than these other programs as well (i.e., PSU's average AA is a much higher placement than the other programs). The difference in point generation between a low-level AA (bottom 3) and a high-level (say top 3) is a lot of points.