Phat Mat Stats is Digging Deeper into Bout-Level Statistics with Lemons and Pie

Nittany Lions celebrate the 2016 National Championship, the first in their current streak of 3 in a row.For years, I’ve been lamenting the relative lack of meaningful or even vaguely useful bout-level statistics in wrestling. GoPSUSports publishes takedown data sometimes in its match notes, but they only include dual meets (with no tourney data), and they’re sealed away in PDF files. Not very user friendly for your neighborhood blogger.

So when I saw that Penn State fan and wrestling message board frequenter Brian Jones (LemonPie on the boards; @LemonsAndPie on the twitter) was charting some dope takedown stats in a google sheet earlier this year, I salivated.

Then I stalked, slowly and…