Editorial coverage of wrestling data, methodology updates, rising stars, and tournament recaps from the MatMetrics team. New posts publish weekly during the season.
By Scott Donalson · September 23, 2026
The high school folkstyle season is roughly six weeks out. Here is how to get ready to follow it on MatMetrics — the storylines that open every November, how to tell a genuine contender from a hot start, and the tools that turn a season of results into a story you can actually track.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · September 23, 2026
Kicking off a state-by-state look at the 2026-27 folkstyle season, we start in Arkansas — the wrestlers who lit up the mat last season, the programs built to reload, and how to follow every weight class in the Natural State on MatMetrics this winter.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · July 13, 2026
Junior men's freestyle is in the books at the FARGODOME. Melvin Miller became just the 13th wrestler to win three Junior national titles, Analu Woode took Outstanding Wrestler honors, and California claimed the inaugural Battles Won Award. Junior and 16U Greco-Roman begin Tuesday, with women's freestyle closing the event July 16-18.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 16, 2026
Day 2 at the Southern Plains Regional Championships wrapped up Greco-Roman competition with champions crowned across all divisions — Ryatt Rodden, Emma Faczak, Henry Scott McDoniel, and Daniel Acosta among them. Freestyle session 1 began Saturday afternoon with session 2 Sunday.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 16, 2026
Day 1 at the 2026 Southern Plains Regional Championships delivered 632 Greco-Roman matches across four divisions, with 16U Girls and Junior Girls crowning their first champions and the 16U and Junior Boys brackets pushing deep into quarterfinals.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 15, 2026
A data-driven preview of the 2026 Southern Plains Regional Championships — the road to Fargo runs through Oklahoma City this weekend with 2,411 registered wrestlers across 24 divisions.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 22, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Washington, Minnesota, and Wisconsin heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 21, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 20, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Texas, Georgia, and Florida heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 19, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from New York and Connecticut heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 18, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from California and Oregon heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 17, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Pennsylvania and New Jersey heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 15, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Kansas and Colorado heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 14, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Iowa and Nebraska heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 13, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Illinois and Missouri heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 13, 2026
A data-driven look at the top 16U and Junior wrestlers from Oklahoma and Arkansas heading into the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals — with current ratings, Fargo experience, and freestyle/Greco records.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 12, 2026
We tracked every 16U champion and runner-up from the 2025 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals to find out who is returning to the same division — and who has aged up to Junior, leaving their title vacant.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 11, 2026
With state freestyle and Greco-Roman championships wrapping up across the country, MatMetrics compared this year to last — state by state, style by style. The results heading into Fargo 2026 are a mixed bag.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 6, 2026
From 5.5 million matches to 1.8 million wrestlers, here is how the 2025-26 wrestling season stacked up in the data — and what the numbers reveal about the state of the sport.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 5, 2026
A weight-by-weight breakdown of every 16U Boys All-American from the 2025 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals who is still competing this season — with current ratings, records, and storylines heading into Fargo 2026.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · May 4, 2026
A weight-by-weight breakdown of every 16U Girls All-American from the 2025 Fargo Nationals who is still competing — with current Glicko-2 ratings, season records, and the storylines shaping the 2026 bracket.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · April 29, 2026
A look at the wrestlers who made the largest rating jumps this month — and what their win patterns tell us about late-season momentum.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · April 28, 2026
MatMetrics scores every event on a 0-100 quality composite. Here is how the spring slate stacked up — and why some smaller events outperformed big-name tournaments.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · April 8, 2026
WPR layers technical, finishing, mental, competition, and consistency scores on top of Glicko-2 to give a richer picture of who is actually winning matches and how.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · April 7, 2026
Glicko-2 confidence intervals, the activity window, and why a freshman with 12 matches can outrank a senior with 30.
Read more →By Scott Donalson · April 6, 2026
A note on data ingestion, source reconciliation, and why MatMetrics stitches FloWrestling, USA Bracketing, and Boutboard into a single canonical wrestler.
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