[RyanCahoon]

I'd love to see somebody actually quantitatively compare the predictive power of all of these different metrics across the various games. For a given year, take the games from the first half of every competition's qualifying rounds, compute a stat for every team and measure it's ability to predict the outcome of the second half of the qualifying matches. Each of the last 4 years should give a sample size of ~7,500 matches and ~2,500 teams. EDIT: these counts are for FRC. An analysis for FTC would be interesting as well.