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Originally Posted by artK
I suspect that those number of teams above 4 and 5 SDs for 2015 will go down come champs when more high scoring teams start playing more matches together.
Did you use Ed Law's spreadsheets for all of these numbers?
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Yes, used Ed's spreadsheet.
I did these calculations at 2 weeks, but didn't post them, then went back to 4 weeks since all of the strongest teams have played by now. While there might be some compression at Champs, the gap is enormous right now and unlike any previous year.
As to the expansion of FRC, note that the SDs have not been steadily expanding with growth (which makes sense when looking at unitless distribution measures). In fact the years with the next greatest skews are in 2010 and 2008. This whole year looks like its an outlier, not just one team.