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Originally Posted by BGiraud
Wow. Week 1 we were the #7, two weeks later...off the list. I bet success in our week 6 regional will be a bit late in the season to make up for being out of sight for five weeks.
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I can certainly empathize with you... we also won a regional (I believe you were #1 seed, we were #3 pick), ranked well the first week (and pretty well the second week), but have since fallen off the list. To be honest though, I was hardly surprised. I think there are two things going on to make the top teams from Week 1 fall off the list, both of which really aren't surprising but should be remembered:
First - and more significantly - there are simply more teams in the "pool" to be voted for. To add on to that Week 1 is even a "smaller week," meaning more than just twice as many teams have since competed. 298 teams competed in Week 1. 1,249 *different* teams have competed in the first three weeks. Basically, only the top 5 teams from Week 1 should have remained on the list, assuming normal distribution. In Week 1, ~8% of 298 competing teams were on the list... by the end of Week 6, ~1.2% of 2,076 teams will be on the list. You don't need me to tell you what that means.
Second, there definitely is some of that "out of sight, out of mind" among this. We're voting, spending a while compiling our lists, trying to keep track of 1,249 teams, and none of that is all too systematic. We'll remember more of the top scorers from Weeks 2 and 3 than from Week 1.
I think it's quite likely 1676 will make the list again, particularly assuming you guys continue to improve! We'll also be competing later (Week 5) and hope to show off our improvements, potentially earning a position back on the list. Best of luck to Pascack this year - you guys are certainly becoming a household number! :-)
To give my impressions on the list... Wow!! That certainly is one list of top-notch teams! As the countdown was continuing, I did often think "man, I thought they'd be higher than that!" but afterwards, I couldn't have said where I'd move that team to! Putting the teams together into such a list is pretty impressive! As always there'll be some bias towards the perennial powerhouses, but every one of those teams is performing at a very high level, no doubt!