One item that is amazing to me thus far is the discrepancy of OPR vs the record of the teams. At Michigan State Championship, it was a shoot out for most matches and OPR matched your ranking fairly well. So far from what I've seen, not so much so at St. Louis. But then again I am not there.
I can think of two reasons:
1) With 100 teams per division the field is not as deep as Michigan.
2) There are only 8 matches per team so the match difficulty is not equal. Or there is a lot left to the "luck of the draw"
So my questions are:
1) do you agree with these observations?
2) is it that way every year because the issues are inherent to the way the system is set up?
3) Am I biased because I am in Michigan?
