Very much agreed with those who have said that OPR is pretty flawed for comparing team strength and those who have said predicting the World Champion by comparing divisional strength is silly.
As a result, I updated the aWAR spreadsheet so I could use that to compare divisions... :-) See the plot of the top 32 here (
).
By aWAR, the best division is almost unanimously Galileo. It doesn't matter if you look at the top 16, 32, or the entire division... aWAR strongly favors Galileo. Curie and Newton are nearly identical, regardless of which metric you look at across what population. Archimedes is the 2nd best division if you look at the top 16 or 32 (except by median), but if you look at the entire division it drops to last. The main reason for this is that it is comparable with Galileo in the top 4, comparable with Curie and Newton for the top 7-15, but then drops to last for the rest of the division.
My spreadsheet for looking at the divisions is attached here (
2014-CMP-Divisions-aWAR.xls).
My post with the updated aWAR spreadsheet is here (
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=32).