Where Swimming & Strategy Meet: An Analysis of the ISL’s Scoring System
In the ISL, an individual’s victory or defeat is only really relevant in the context of how it contributes to or detracts from the larger whole.
Disqualifications Shouldn’t Score Points
When I went through the first day of Naples, I had a discrepancy. My best understanding of the difference has to do with the disqualifications.
Hardest (SCY) Event Bracket: 400 IM Bests 200 Fly By Almost 800 Votes
Congratulations 400 IMers. You’ve been voted the hardest event by a wide margin. But you still have to swim the 400 IM, so are you really the winners here?
SwimSwam Pulse: 62% Pick Cal As Men’s #1 Team Preseason
Defending champs Cal nearly doubled up the votes of Texas, which won four straight before last season. All other programs got only about 5% of the votes.
Hardest (SCY) Event Bracket: 400 IM vs 200 Fly In the Final
Three rounds are behind us, and the 400 IM and 200 fly have made the final by identical 71-29 margins in the semifinals.
Hardest (SCY) Event Bracket: The Final Four Is Half Freestyle Events
After a bunch of blowouts in round 1, we saw things get very tight in round 2, including a brutal 200 free vs 500 free matchup.
SwimSwam Pulse: 55% Pick Stanford at #1 For Women’s NCAA Ranks
The three-time defending NCAA champions earned a majority of the votes at 55.1% – but the rest of the field pulled solid numbers.
Opinion: Two Schools of Thought On NCAA Amateurism & One Is Bad For Swimming
California’s new law allowing NCAA student-athletes to earn money puts me in a tough position. On the one side is fairness, and on the other is swimming.
Hardest (SCY) Event Bracket: Get In Your Votes For Round 2
Round 1 saw a lot of blowouts between our “seeded” and “unseeded” events. Round 2 should set up some more intriguing showdowns in our hardest event bracket.
My Swimmer-Does-CrossFit Experiment Comes Full Circle
Just over a year ago I entered the CrossFit world to spice things up and I learned several important things along the last 12 months.
Bracket Challenge: Which NCAA Event Is Hardest?
We’re pitting NCAA events in a tournament bracket to answer swimming’s ultimate question: what truly is the hardest event?
SwimSwam Pulse: 65% Pick NC State Men To Place Higher Than NC State Women
Almost two thirds of voters still expected the NC State men to outplace the NC State women this season at NCAAs. Both teams were 4th in our College previews.
SwimSwam Pulse: 49% Pick Beisel To Make Survivor Jury But Not Finale
About half of voters had Beisel landing on the jury with the players voted out after the merge. Only 14% had her booted early, but only 17% say she’ll win.
What’s Really at Stake: Sun Yang vs. WADA
Is this a case about an athlete attempting to cover up his own doping by smashing his own sample as so many instantly believed?
SwimSwam Pulse: 62% Pick Walsh As Most Likely World Jrs Champ to Medal In Tokyo
A heavy majority of voters went with Gretchen Walsh as the most likely World Junior champ to medal at next summer’s Olympics.
