[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

Bouncing off of this, does anyone have the data on the % of #1 seeds that won their events over the past few years?

I was curious too, so I whipped up a quick script to find out. Script and full output are available on my GitHub: https://gist.github.com/phil-lopreia...276a608edc7de4

Overall 266 of 435 events were won by top seeds (61.1494252874 percent)
  In 2011, 41 of 62 events were won by top seeds (66.1290322581 percent)
  In 2012, 46 of 73 events were won by top seeds (63.0136986301 percent)
  In 2013, 46 of 81 events were won by top seeds (56.7901234568 percent)
  In 2014, 51 of 102 events were won by top seeds (50.0 percent)
  In 2015, 82 of 117 events were won by top seeds (70.0854700855 percent)

So Car Nack's prediction of <25% would make this year a pretty significant outlier when compared to the past 5.