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Re: Minnesota Rankings

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
One more change I just found out about... The win-loss points are calculated for the first 8 matches for each team. This was done to normalize the number of matches across the 7 regional events that teams participated in.

In other words, attending an event that happens to give you 9 or 10 matches won't benefit a team when compared to one that only had 8 matches.
I'm glad they decided to go this way, I was speaking with a few other mentors in the metro area and they expressed concern over the fact that 9-10 matches were played in Duluth and only 8 were played at the UofM events.
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