Wrestlestat.com and Andegre =success story

[86_90]

To one of our own, excellent work Andegre.

Your site continues to evolve based on viewer input and suggestions. The information you provide is useful and entertaining.

Most are probably already using this site as a reference, if not, take the time to check it out. It keeps getting better every month/year.

Again, thank you for your hard work in giving college wrestling fans a top notch portal to a sport we all love. When we couple this with your willingness to give your audience a voice in how the site is constructed we are party to a rare combination--exceptional talent and humility.
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Suggestion. Add a category tab for past NCAA results/brackets. These are found easily on the web, but to have them on your site would further enhance the experience. Comparing current/past results and having NCAA brackets handy would also appear to be a natural fit with what you are doing.

 

[WWDMHawkeye]

I'll second that. Great work, andegre!!!

 

[Azchief32]

Use the site at least weekly.

 

[andegre]

To one of our own, excellent work Andegre.

Your site continues to evolve based on viewer input and suggestions. The information you provide is useful and entertaining.

Most are probably already using this site as a reference, if not, take the time to check it out. It keeps getting better every month/year.

Again, thank you for your hard work in giving college wrestling fans a top notch portal to a sport we all love. When we couple this with your willingness to give your audience a voice in how the site is constructed we are party to a rare combination--exceptional talent and humility.
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Suggestion. Add a category tab for past NCAA results/brackets. These are found easily on the web, but to have them on your site would further enhance the experience. Comparing current/past results and having NCAA brackets handy would also appear to be a natural fit with what you are doing.

Thank you!

Just to clarify, are you talking about all of the previous NCAA Championships brackets, like this:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/259533113/

 

[goiahawkeyes]

Yep, I agree. I use the site 2-3 times a week. A lot of great information on there. Thanks Andegre

 

[HoundedHawk]

Long live Wrestlestat.

 

[Gusaford]

First rate in all respects. Andegre: You directed me to the site a few weeks back when I was trying to locate Micah Jordan's record last year, and now I am regularly plumbing the site's depths for all sorts of data. Reminds me of when I was looking up baseball statistics and memorizing batting averages as a kid. Very addictive. Good stuff!

 

[Big Fall]

That site is awesome. Well done.

 

[Vallholl]

Hey guys, over here! Andegre is handing out "likes"

 

[Vallholl]

Seriously though, I mentioned a few weeks ago how I had an idea for the "Eligibility chart" and did a below average job and posted it here and (in my mind) it motivated Andegre to take over and do it better, much better.

And during the Midlands, the Mighty KCJJ mentioned positively mentioned Wrestlestat early and often.

(can you like each one?)

 

[caseyballzz]

Love his site especially when its tourney time. The great part is it keeps getting better.

 

[86_90]

Thank you!

Just to clarify, are you talking about all of the previous NCAA Championships brackets, like this:

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Yes, exactly. I've seen brackets well back into the 60s posted and available. It would be nice for this part of our history to be a permanent part of your site. Thanks again.

 

[Vallholl]

I would ask (and not just b/c I want more likes) a few questions:
1) Why did you do it?
2) How much time does it take?
3) What are your long term goals for the site?

 

[UndercoverHawk]

For a college student who doesn't have much time to keep up on other teams and their individual records, this site really helps put everything in 1 spot.

 

[rossel 33]

Great work Andegre!

Not that you haven't got enough to do, but having past ncaa brackets would be icing on the cake! Jairus Hammond, who passed away a few years ago (RIP), had a wonderful site called wrestlingstats.com which had all the past ncaa brackets and I'm sure many on this board used them in the past.

But even without past brackets, you've hit a home run with your site, and we all appreciated it.

 

[andegre]

Yes, exactly. I've seen brackets well back into the 60s posted and available. It would be nice for this part of our history to be a permanent part of your site. Thanks again.

I will absolutely do this, assuming I can find all of them.

 

[andegre]

Great work Andegre!

Not that you haven't got enough to do, but having past ncaa brackets would be icing on the cake! Jairus Hammond, who passed away a few years ago (RIP), had a wonderful site called wrestlingstats.com which had all the past ncaa brackets and I'm sure many on this board used them in the past.

But even without past brackets, you've hit a home run with your site, and we all appreciated it.

Yep, I'll work on this too.

 

[sloehawk]

You Da Man!

 

[andegre]

I would ask (and not just b/c I want more likes) a few questions:
1) Why did you do it?
2) How much time does it take?
3) What are your long term goals for the site?

1) The original intention of the site was to get the common opponents between two wrestlers. I got the idea back when Clark/Gilman were redshirt freshman, and we were going into the Minnesota dual. I remember at the time, we didn't know who would be going in that dual, so I wanted to know how each of those guys had fared (WOB?) against the Minnesota guy's (Brancale?) common opponents. That's what sparked the entire website. Since I'm a software developer, it was the first [good] idea that I had to make my own website. This is actually the first website that I've ever created on my own, outside of work, that's gone live. I started creating another site before this, but that project got derailed by this one.

2) Way more than my wife likes. Normally, I will work about 2 nights per week (from roughly 10:00pm till 2:00am). I've set a rule for myself that I would not let the website take away time from my wife or kids, so I wait until they are in bed before I wander/sneak downstairs to the computer. I usually take weekends off because I'll have to get up with the kids in the morning. It's easier to handle the no sleep during the week since I just have to sit at a computer during the day. As long as I'm busy, it's not a problem, but as soon as I have a meeting, it's all I can handle just keeping my eyes open.

3) I've been starting to get asked this question more-and-more. Honestly, the best answer that I've been able to give is that I want the site to be the #1 source of all college wrestling information/data/stats/etc. There isn't much else that the site is missing, that I'm able to think of. You guys pointed out the past NCAA brackets, so I'll get those in soon. But what else, how about match statistics (takedowns, escapes, back points, etc), or maybe on the wrestlers profile where it displays all match results, have a link next to each match to a youtube clip of that actual match (wink, wink). There's not much else that I can think of. At this point, I just want to refine the data, and improve the quality of the code behind the scenes. I'm also researching a new technology to use that will increase the performance of the site (will make each webpage load at least 3 times as fast.....besides the cached pages). Lastly, and I'm not sure if any of you follow "TheOpenMat" forums, but I've had some discussion with the posters over there, and I'm taking on the task to try and get the site opened up to "select" users to allow THEM to be able to enter data, cleanup data, do more of the regular maintenance that I (and Obrats) have/need/offer to do on a daily basis. If/when I'm able to get that accomplished, that will allow the site to be more self-sustaining, which will allow it to last a lot longer than if I was doing all of this on my own. (Honestly, if I didn't have Obrats help, I'd already have thought of quitting because the data entry/integrity aspect is a lot to take on).

That was long, and enough for now...

 

[twade70]

Great work Andegre!

Not that you haven't got enough to do, but having past ncaa brackets would be icing on the cake! Jairus Hammond, who passed away a few years ago (RIP), had a wonderful site called wrestlingstats.com which had all the past ncaa brackets and I'm sure many on this board used them in the past.

But even without past brackets, you've hit a home run with your site, and we all appreciated it.

Love your work on the wrestlestat.com site. Here's the site rossel33 speaks of: http://wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/brackets.htm