[Joe Johnson]

I like the idea of normalizing by the number of competitions.

How about also normalizing by the number of teams at a regional?

I am thinking that perhaps some metrics would have this option included and some would not.

So... Winning a 75 team regional would be weighted somewhat more than winning a 33 team regional. I am struggling with what the weighting should be though -- I don't think that I would make it worth (75/33) as much but it seems that it should be worth somewhat more.

I think the main thing is that we should get the data in a format that lets folks propose various metrics, then we could all compute that result of what is proposed and we could see if we agreed with the basic trend.

I have another tricky question. What about teams that sort of split up into several teams? Should the new teams get the credit for the old team's performance or should they start off fresh? I am leaning toward a "New Number, New Stats" policy. Any other ideas on how to handle this?

Joe J.