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Re: paper: Championship Division Strengths

From the weighed average OPR numbers, I put all 4 divisions on a chart and sorted in descending order. I also added the Michigan State Championship numbers as a comparison.

Using weighed average OPR data, the mean of each division is
Archimedes 17.27
Curie 21.04
Galileo 21.51
Newton 20.80
MSC 24.45

The MSC numbers are not the OPR the 64 teams got at MSC. They are the same weighed average OPR numbers projected to Week 7 and included the MSC OPR numbers.

Looking at the graph, I have the following observations
1) Archimedes is the weakest division in the whole range.
2) The kink/knee is at around 9 or 10 just like last year, meaning the top 10 teams drop off at a much faster rate in OPR than the remaining teams.
3) The original unstretched MSC curve is on the low end of all the divisions in terms of strength unlike last year. The reason it was still so exciting is it truncated off the bottom 23 teams.

You can change the numbers easily to use other ways to rank teams like best OPR or most recent OPR. Just copy and paste into the appropriate cells.
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