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Originally Posted by inkling16

Here is the data from 2011-2014. The top 8 are roughly what I had anticipated. 5th seed won more frequently than 4th seed, and 7th seed won more frequently than 6th seed, but not by any substantial margin.

What I find interesting is that any seed between ~8 to ~30 has (very) roughly the same number of event winning teams as any other seed within this range.

Thanks inking! This seems to answer the OP's questions pretty completely. It's interesting how steep the droppoff was some years with number of teams winning an event at each rank. In 2012 only 1 team won an event while ranked 5, but in 2013 there were 13. That could be noise I guess, but the games could have had something to do with it as well. One point of clarification for everybody, because of the picking among the top 8, it is likely seeds 9 and 10 will be a captain which is why 9 and 10 show a higher winning percentage than 11-15. I know other threads have analyzed alliance rank 1-8 and their chance of winning in each year, so I won't go into that here. Just thought I'd point it out.