New Bracket Template - Need your help

[cowcards]

Hope you don't mind if I post this here. Feel free to delete if I can't.

I've been working on building new, fan-friendly, modern brackets and I'd love to hear your feedback and any other ideas on it.

Check out what the 2025 NCAA brackets look like here.

You can see head-to-head for wrestlers to see the difference in their paths. You can click on a wrestler to highlight their path. You can filter by school to highlight all wrestlers from that school and give you the weights where they have participants.

 

[chasepollard]

Hope you don't mind if I post this here. Feel free to delete if I can't.

I've been working on building new, fan-friendly, modern brackets and I'd love to hear your feedback and any other ideas on it.

Check out what the 2025 NCAA brackets look like here.

You can see head-to-head for wrestlers to see the difference in their paths. You can click on a wrestler to highlight their path. You can filter by school to highlight all wrestlers from that school and give you the weights where they have participants.

If you don’t mind outlining instructions for users a little better as well as going a little deeper into what you’re trying to accomplish, that’d be great.

*posters, be careful clicking on links that aren’t currently known or trusted.

 

[cowcards]

DELETE

 

[cowcards]

If you don’t mind outlining instructions for users a little better as well as going a little deeper into what you’re trying to accomplish, that’d be great.

*posters, be careful clicking on links that aren’t currently known or trusted.

Instructions - I'd love to hear your feedback and any other ideas.

*posters, be careful clicking on links that aren’t currently known or trusted. It links to Claude. You can hover over the link and see the full address in the bottom left of your screen.

 

[chasepollard]

Instructions - I'd love to hear your feedback and any other ideas.

*posters, be careful clicking on links that aren’t currently known or trusted. It links to Claude. You can hover over the link and see the full address in the bottom left of your screen.

Thank you for clarifying the host.

I've got some feedback: Explain how to use the thing like you are explaining it to a 3rd grader (that isn't computer savvy) so that you can generate some volume of feedback.

 

[osu1988]

I mostly like it. Enjoyed the total points accumulation and each match for each wrestler. Here are a couple of small things.

I got an error when I clicked the weight classes at the top of the page. Had to scroll down to see each weight.
Could you add a function for team scores in addition to wrestlers by team?
Is there a way if you click the match score, it would pop up how the scoring in the match happened? I realize this would have to be added by a user.

 

[cowcards]

Thank you for clarifying the host.

I've got some feedback: Explain how to use the thing like you are explaining it to a 3rd grader (that isn't computer savvy) so that you can generate some volume of feedback.

Ahh. got it.

In the top left there are links to individual weights that will scroll to the weight you want when you click on it.

Below that is a filter where you can select a school and it will highlight each wrestler from that school through the brackets. It will also tell you how many wrestlers they have in the tournament and the weights on the right hand side next to the head-to-head button.

You can click on a wrestler in the bracket and it will highlight all their matches and fade out the rest to help you hone in on each of them. But also a pop-up will show that has a list of the matches, so you can see them all in a nice table too. The pop-up is draggable to anywhere in the screen so it doesn't block the view. Just click and hold the top and move the mouse.

Then there is a head-to-head function on the top right, if you click on it a pop-up will give you the option to select any two wrestlers in the tournament to compare their paths. This will also display any head-to-head results they had.

 

[cowcards]

I mostly like it. Enjoyed the total points accumulation and each match for each wrestler. Here are a couple of small things.

I got an error when I clicked the weight classes at the top of the page. Had to scroll down to see each weight.
Could you add a function for team scores in addition to wrestlers by team?
Is there a way if you click the match score, it would pop up how the scoring in the match happened? I realize this would have to be added by a user.

Fixed the bracket link errors.

Team scores and statistics are on tap in the next iteration. It's too much to try and implement it with the Claude limits currently.

If I had the scoring during the matches, I would add it. A future thing, but I just don't have that yet.

 

[cowcards]

I've also been working on Team/Individual/High School profiles. They aren't "live" yet and I'm still messing around with them and getting the data I have fed into them.

Here is a little preview:
Oklahoma State
John Smith

Any feedback is appreciated.

 

[cowcards]

Ever wonder what place a team of the best finishers from each state at each weight would finish at the national tournament?

Clink the link and have some fun.

The 2026 results are updated too.

 

[Old Number Nine]

I've also been working on Team/Individual/High School profiles. They aren't "live" yet and I'm still messing around with them and getting the data I have fed into them.

Here is a little preview:
Oklahoma State
John Smith

Any feedback is appreciated.

Still has some bugs but it is a lot of fun

 

[Old Number Nine]

I know this is a repost but how do you get this info in your database?

Our eight All Americans ties a team best set in '61 and again in '64 which is quite a feat seeing as how they only had four AA’s in ’61 and six in ‘64. Those teams were incredible: ’61 finished 1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4 and ’64 finished 1,1,2,2,2,2,5,5.

’61 had a #4 seed that DNP so it could have been nine AA’s while we had a #5 and #8 that DNP. Oh, what might have been. Just wait until next year.

 

[cowcards]

Still has some bugs but it is a lot of fun

What bugs are you seeing? I’ve been make some changes to other pages that may inadvertently affect those pages.

 

[Old Number Nine]

What bugs are you seeing? I’ve been make some changes to other pages that may inadvertently affect those pages. https://wrestling.guru/college-team/?team_id=611&season=2005

This search for 2005 show the wrestlers from 2005 but not for that year.

2005

 

[cowcards]

I know this is a repost but how do you get this info in your database?

Our eight All Americans ties a team best set in '61 and again in '64 which is quite a feat seeing as how they only had four AA’s in ’61 and six in ‘64. Those teams were incredible: ’61 finished 1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4 and ’64 finished 1,1,2,2,2,2,5,5.

’61 had a #4 seed that DNP so it could have been nine AA’s while we had a #5 and #8 that DNP. Oh, what might have been. Just wait until next year.

Except for the matches and team scores, I gathered it all myself using Jay Hammond’s brackets. Filling in missing/wrong info from newspaper, school papers, etc.

@Wrestleknownothing helped a ton with team scores, matches, and correcting a lot of my errors. Matt Grogan helped a lot with matches from the last 25 years.

 

[cowcards]

What bugs are you seeing? I’ve been make some changes to other pages that may inadvertently affect those pages. https://wrestling.guru/college-team/?team_id=611&season=2005

This search for 2005 show the wrestlers from 2005 but not for that year.

2005

Are those not the wrestlers from the 2004-2005 season that wrestled at the national tournament? It doesn’t have a full roster yet. Still working on that.

 

[Old Number Nine]

Except for the matches and team scores, I gathered it all myself using Jay Hammond’s brackets. Filling in missing/wrong info from newspaper, school papers, etc.

@Wrestleknownothing helped a ton with team scores, matches, and correcting a lot of my errors. Matt Grogan helped a lot with matches from the last 25 years.

That's what I've been doing for years except I load it into excel. Have you tried to find out how (if anybody) has the OSU data that Hammons used on his website before he died. Someone took over Lehigh's portion there so they must have gotten it from somewhere. I tried "talking" Lehigh people and the guy I ended up with said he didn't have it or know where it was.

 

[cowcards]

That's what I've been doing for years except I load it into excel. Have you tried to find out how (if anybody) has the OSU data that Hammons used on his website before he died. Someone took over Lehigh's portion there so they must have gotten it from somewhere. I tried "talking" Lehigh people and the guy I ended up with said he didn't have it or know where it was.

I used to do excel until I finally put it into the database, but I haven't. The only person i reached out to the Hall of Fame because they were the POC for some of the stuff of his I found, but I never got any response from them. I hadn't seen anyone pick up his work, so I don't know if it's living somewhere else.

 

[cowcards]

Here is almost everything you need to know about the 2026 tournament

 

[Old Number Nine]

I used to do excel until I finally put it into the database, but I haven't. The only person i reached out to the Hall of Fame because they were the POC for some of the stuff of his I found, but I never got any response from them. I hadn't seen anyone pick up his work, so I don't know if it's living somewhere else.

If I had know it was going to vanish I would have downloaded all of as quickly as I possible could. Sadly, I only have all the data for Mike Sheets, Kenny Monday and John Smith.

There is a wealth of data that has got to be out there somewhere

 

[cowcards]

If I had know it was going to vanish I would have downloaded all of as quickly as I possible could. Sadly, I only have all the data for Mike Sheets, Kenny Monday and John Smith.

There is a wealth of data that has got to be out there somewhere

I've made it a habit to download everything i find just for that reason. I won't use 90% of it, but i'd like to have it in case i ever need it. You never know when it is going to disappear and you won't be able to find it again.