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Re: Galileo 2014

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Originally Posted by Aileen View Post
What are outliers?
Outliers are teams that are outside the norm. They have significantly harder or easier match schedules than most teams. Statistics generally considers samples that are more than 2 standard deviations away from the average to be outliers. Since the standard deviation was 8.8 points, and the average was 0, any team with a difficulty higher than 17.6 points, or less than -17.6 points will qualify as outliers.