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Re: paper: 2006 Niagara FIRST Public Championship Scouting Database

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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
Karthik,
Another mentor and I were trying to figure out how you calculate the value for seed %. We weren't able to quite figure it out. Can you explain that one?
Pete
Pete,

Let t = number of teams at the regional
Let s = the team's seed

Seed % = (t - s + 1)/t
= 1 - ((s-1)/t)

As Tim mentioned, this calculation produces the percentage of teams a given team was seeded higher than.
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