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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I don't think that analysis applies here. Michigan (for example) sent 76 teams. if ~56% made it to the playoffs, that's only ~43 teams. How competitive are the other 33 teams when compared to the waitlist spots? Because this change doesn't really affect those 43 teams - they'll get in either way. It's the team's further down in the district points that are affected, and I haven't seen an analysis that really tells us how competitive those teams are, when compared to the waitlist teams. Do that same analysis comparing the achievement of all waitlist teams against the lower 10% of district teams (sorted by district points), and then we can talk about how competitive or not this decision is.
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That's a very good point. Looking at the data, the bottom 10% of district teams only had 3 selected out of 22 (teams 193, 3539 and 3663). That's only 13.7%, meanwhile 16.7% of
waitlist teams were selected for division playoff matches.
I'm pretty surprised about that, since all waitlist teams from district areas would have fewer district points than the points teams. Either regional waitlist teams are doing well enough to pull up the average or district points aren't doing that a good a job of sending the best teams.
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Originally Posted by FarmerJohn
If you want to go to the championships then work harder, don't try and lessen the value of the championships by letting everyone in.
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I don't think you're being serious, but it's important to note that nobody else is talking about how many teams are at champs, just how to pick those ones (points based or lottery). The same number of teams are getting the "championship experience" either way.