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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0
I can think of at least two things that would make a difference in where the bar is:
-At last year’s Oregon State University district 1425 and 2811 were both at their third event and pulled about 70 pts out of the pool each. This year’s Philomath (same general area) event had the winning alliance’s captain’s (1983) points disappearing again but their first pick (955) was not at their third event. 70 extra points is enough to raise 14 teams by 5 points.
-Last year there were only two chairman’s award winners who wouldn’t have moved on based on points. This year there are three, and one of them is not close to the point cutoff. For the purposes of figuring out where the cutoff will be that team their chairman’s award is implicitly worth 30 about points.
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70 points per team is presumably concentrated in elimination points. Even with those points re-entering the pool, how do they get divied up into 5 points per team?
The actual normal distribution we are using to award qualification points to teams this year must be more normal than the approximate distribution the real world gives you from W-L-T... I suppose it makes sense that would benefit the middle class more than the tails.