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Here's a bit of late night data crunching.

Looking at qualifying matches only... I used official district results to get stats on each team's average offensive production, and the twitter feed to get average points allowed (sadly, Nashua and Groton data were not in the twitter feed).

I then compared each of the top 63 (why not?) teams' stats to the average of those 63. Above average offense is a good thing. Allowing fewer points than average per match is a good thing. Doing both is even better!

The resulting "points/game above average" metric suggests how a team contributed in qualification matches compared to the 'average' of all these above-average teams! Of course, the data, measure, and causality are all imperfect...

Still, my top 20:
Team Points/ game above average
195 49.2
3467 36.3
78 33.5
125 30.1
131 28.8
176 27.8
61 26.5
237 24.7
2067 22.1
175 20.5
236 20.1
319 19.8
177 17.0
5122 16.2
4048 15.4
3525 15.0
58 14.6
558 12.8
716 12.3
4564 12.3

Hope that someone else finds this interesting or even helpful! Comments always welcome.

Best of luck to all who earned the opportunity to compete this weekend. Make the most of this great event!

Dan Hudnut, mentor
Team 885, Randolph, VT