The second coaches' poll was released this week, this time with an RPI accompaniment. Over 400 individual wrestlers made at least one of the lists. We've copied those two lists at the end of this article. Before them is a breakdown of the implications of both lists. 

Tournament Points Via Coaches Poll

If we assigned tournament scores (without bonus points), the top 20 teams according to the coaches poll are as follows:

Tournament Points Via RPI Ratings

If we do the same using the RPI, we get the following top 20 teams:

Keep in mind that the RPI is a completely objective measurement that only considers winning percentages, so the results don't always line up with expectations. 

Both of these rankings are used to determine the number of national qualifiers at NCAA. The exact formula is complicated and I'm sure Nomad will have an explainer which he will roll out in the next iteration of Brackastrology, but for now, we can take the Coaches' Poll and RPI Ratings separately and see how many NQ's each conference would have according to them.

Below is how many points and qualifiers each conference received according to the Coaches' Poll.

It's worth noting that each conference is guaranteed to have at least one qualifier, and not every conference has a wrestler at every weight class in the coaches' poll, so if the actual qualifiers were named this way we'd have to adjust for that, but it's not, so we don't.

Anyway, below is the same deal but using the RPI.

And now, finally, the raw numbers.

2nd Coaches' Poll

RPI Ratings