The more I look at the data the crazier it seems.
If you take the MAX OPR numbers at 50th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentiles for each division and then subtract the corresponding percentiles from the entire 600 team CMP, you can get a sense for just how much better the teams on NEWTON are then the other divisions. Newton's numbers are all positive and the 75th, 90th and 95th percentiles are over 5 points higher than the corresponding CMP numbers.
See the chart below.
As I said, crazy. I don't think that this means that Newton is a shoe in for winning on Einstein because that depends on how the drafts happen to pair teams into alliances, but I will say that the qualifying rounds and playoffs on Newton are going to be very different than those played in some other divisions (I'm looking at you Curie & Galileo).
