I never thought I’d be analytics nerd, but I really do enjoy traipsing over information in an effort to listen to myself think-er, prove my points and the world wrong.
Anyways, the two things I have in question are this:
There’s a huge debate on which states produce the best wrestlers or have the best wrestling background. I like to join in on that sillyness because I wrestling in NY and I consider that a tough state. It’s not the best, I can agree that PA is the best, but it’s consistently producing NCAA champions, multiple time champions (2 4x NCAA champs?), and sending a solid amount of kids to the NCAAs. This year’s crop qualifies us for 8th, last year we were 5th, and that’s a good qualifier. I don’t belittle Ohio, NJ, CA, IL, so between those states, we’re usually in the mix for top 5 and guaranteed top 10. Anyone else can just look at the data.
Just like to point that out. In case there’s any doubt. I guess it defeats the purpose if you have tell someone you’re in the top 10 of states via quality wise, but it’s good to know that I’m not dreaming when I see lots of lists include states like Indiana or Florida, and they have no idea what they’re talking about.
ANNNNDDD, there’s another article on the Irish potato famine that made me think a tad.
This guy goes through bank records or Irish immigrants during the famine and points out that it took a lot of money just to get here in the first place, and most Irish had about $6k in their bank accounts after arriving here. Not a bad gig, I guess, since today’s average savings amount to under $1k. I wonder how people would react if you say that we have it worse than the famine times. It also points out that 4 out of 10 became business owners/white collar versus the blue collar, creating generational wealth. The numbers aren’t bad, which truly means America was the land of opportunity at one point in time, if you had the cash or made the cash.