I had collected some very cool quotes about math and numbers, but none of them quite worked here and then I lost them anyway. In spite of that, here are some numbers that interest me about the Oklahoma City PBR.
47+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 2)
46+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 4)
45+ bulls: 4 (Shepherd Hills Tested, Pure Smoke, Smackdown, BigTexTrailers.com AKA Moon)
44+ bulls: 14 (Last week - 16)
90+ rides: 2 (J.B. Mauney, Ryan Dirteater)
89+ rides: 1
88+ rides: 2
What surprises me about the 89 and 88 point rides: That there are always so few of them.
Overall riding percentage for the event: 31.45
Riding percentage in OKC last year: 42.75 (It was the 6th event of the year, as it was this year.)
Number of short rounds so far this year: 11
Most short rounds ridden in by any one rider: 6 (Ty Pozzobon, Luke Snyder, Ryan Dirteater)
Number of short round bulls those three have ridden, in order: 0, 1, 2
Most money won in 8 seconds this weekend: $4,700 (J.B. Mauney and Rubens Barbosa)
Highest riding average so far this season: Still Silvano Alves - 70.59% (down from 78.57 last week) (12 out of 17 bulls attempted)
Second highest average: J.B. Mauney and Valdiron de Oliveira - 70% (14 out of 20 bulls attempted)
Number of bulls ridden by J.B. Mauney in the last two events: 6 out of 9 attempted
Number of bulls ridden by Luke Snyder in the last two events: 1 out of 7 attempted
Number of people wondering if all that riding around America in a Ford truck might not be a good idea: At least one.
Number of points Oliveira trails Mauney in the world standings: 39.25
Rides in each regular round: 11 /10 / 3 / 12 / 3
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 3
Riders with two rides: 5
Riders with one ride: 15
Riders with no rides: 10
Number of tweets I promised to make this week: 3
Number of tweets I made: None. I am fairly certain this trend will continue.