[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Bongle

I'm using a free statistics program called R. It did the linear regression for me. The slope was -0.003130, meaning that there was a very slight trend towards less scores as team number increased. However, I don't remember enough from my last stats course to determine the variability of the slope.

This is one of those times where you can see that the slope is approximately zero, and the visual plot is all over the place, and conclude that there is no meaningful relationship between score and team number. There is no need to get too fancy here.