How SimplWrestling works
From the bracket to the board
Five stages, in this order, every week of the season. Nothing skips a stage and nothing jumps the line.
- 1
Tournaments wrestle
Brackets run all over California, mostly Friday and Saturday.
Every number on this site starts as a real match with a real referee.
- 2
Results are collected
As an event publishes its brackets, we pull every bout in them — who wrestled, who won, how it ended, and where everyone placed.
Nothing is estimated or filled in by hand to make a board look complete.
- 3
Every match is checked
Each result is attached to a real wrestler at a real school, and duplicates of the same bout are collapsed into one.
A row we cannot read with confidence is held for a person to look at, not guessed.
- 4
The math runs
The season is replayed in date order through one published formula — the same one for every wrestler in the state.
No coach polls, no votes, no reputation bonus, no thumb on the scale.
- 5
The board goes live
Monday morning the new leaderboard is up, and the arrow beside each wrestler shows the move since last week.
Last week's board stays exactly as it was, so a climb is checkable.
What a week looks like
- Tournaments wrestleWed – Sat
- Results collected and checkedSat – Sun
- Ratings recalculatedSun
- New board liveMonday
A week of wrestling closes on Saturday night. Everything after that — collecting the brackets, checking them, and recalculating every rating — happens before Monday morning, so you can open the board at the start of the week and see the weekend already counted.
Which tournaments count
A rating is built from a short, fixed list of results — these, and nothing else:
- Varsity duals & tournaments
- This season
- CIF Section championships
- Last season
- Masters & Divisional championships
- Last season
- National opens — Fargo, Super 32
- Last season
- CIF State Championships
- Last 3 seasons
Competition opens Nov 2, 2026 for the 2026-2027 season. Before then the board is built entirely from the postseason results carried over from previous seasons, which is why every wrestler on it shows no matches yet.
A wrestler needs at least 3 counted matches before a rank is shown next to their name — until then they have a rating but no position, because one match is not evidence of anything.
Beating a strong opponent moves a rating more than beating a weak one, and how a match ended matters. That is the formula's job, and the formula is published in full: every constant on that page is read from the code that does the scoring, so it cannot describe a rule the engine is not running.
You can check any of it
A rating is only worth what the matches behind it are worth, so the matches are not hidden behind the number. Open a wrestler and you get the bouts the rating was built from — the opponent, the tournament, the date, the result.
The whole archive is searchable without an account. Browse the records in Explore.
If something is wrong
It happens. A name is spelled two ways in the source results, a wrestler transfers, a bracket posts a bout backwards. When a row is wrong the rating built on it is wrong too, so these are worth reporting and they get fixed by hand.
Find the row in Explore and click the warning icon on it — that attaches the exact record to your report, which is far faster to fix than an email describing it. If a whole tournament is missing, email us instead.