By The Numbers: Ok State vs Missouri

By The Numbers: Ok State vs Missouri

This week's breakdown looks at the Oklahoma State Cowboys' streak snapping victory over the Missouri Tigers. Scoring and attacks were down in this bout, but

Jan 27, 2016 by Brock Hite
By The Numbers: Ok State vs Missouri
This week's breakdown looks at the Oklahoma State Cowboys' streak snapping victory over the Missouri Tigers. Scoring and attacks were down in this bout, but it wasn't boring from my perspective. 

Takedowns:
OSU: 10
MIZ:   6

This is a staggering low number of takedowns for ten contested matches. The average has been in the high twenties. Two of the stat articles looked at the finals of CKLV and Southern Scuffle. You would expect tightly contested matches in those finals to produce low scoring affairs without many takedowns. This wasn’t the case. The Scuffle and Vegas finals had 25 and 27 takedowns in the ten bouts. That means they averaged a full takedown more than the Cowboys and Tigers. Two bouts in the match went without a takedown being scored.


Committed Attacks:
OSU: 32
MIZ:   33

After seeing the low takedown numbers, you begin to understand the stat when looking at the committed attacks. There are usually around 90 committed attacks in a ten match set. The dual between Oklahoma State and Iowa produced 112 committed attacks in the ten matches. With only 65 committed attacks you understand why so few takedowns were scored.

The low number of attacks was a results of a two key factors. The first was the amount of mat wrestling that took place was above average. They spent less time in the neutral position so there were less attacks. The other was the amount of fake attacks and leg slaps. These aren’t committed attacks, but they warranted a reaction from the opposing wrestler. This kept the wrestlers from getting into position to make a legitimate attack.  

Reversals:
OSU: 2
MIZ:   1

Three reversals in one dual is unheard of. When looking at the the reversals in this dual it was less about the bottom guy aggressively seeking the reversal, than it was the top guy making a mistake. Nolan Boyd scored a reversal when Willie Miklus missed a headlock while in the advantage position. J’Den Cox was pulled on top of Andrew Marsden during a mat return for his reversal. I am going to continue to look at the escapes that are scored when I break these matches down and see if it is missed opportunities or wrestlers just not pursuing reversals.

Nearfall:
OSU: 3 sets of 2, 2 sets of 4
MIZ: 0

The totals are a little misleading. It should read
Oklahoma State: 0
Missouri: 0
Austin Marsden: 5

He scored the only nearfall of the dual. There were several situations that were close, but no other nearfall points were scored. This is kind of surprising when you consider how much mat wrestling was done in the dual.

Out of Bounds:
OSU: 8
MIZ:  5
Top/Bottom:    16

I gave the boundary calls a little bit of a rest last week. That isn’t going to be the case two weeks in a row. The obvious issue is the number of times the wrestlers go out of bounds when wrestling on the mat. 12 out of the 16 stoppages occurred at 133lbs and 197lbs.

Out of all of the stoppages on the boundary line only one stall warning was issued in the whole dual on the boundary calls. I am okay with that because I think the new rule isn’t accomplishing what it was put in place to do. However, the competitors deserve to know how the rule is going to be called in the post-season. The officials are just not there yet when it comes to calling this rule. The 125lb match in particular seemed to be called inconsistently. I would have hated to see Barlow McGhee lose that match on a stall call, but it probably should have been made.

 





Riding Time:
OSU: 4
MIZ: 2

Daniel Lewis is the first wrestler in a “By The Numbers” match to accumulate riding time and lose the match. Riding time and being in the advantage position is usually a pretty good indicator that you are dominating a folkstyle match. Lewis dominated Dieringer in the second and third periods, but he trailed by three after the first period. He needed to secure back points in order to win the match and couldn’t do it. In hindsight he was a last second takedown in the first period away from knocking off the number 1 pound-for-pound wrestler in the country.