Thread: Week 2 Regionals: Veterans Still Have No Advantage
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Re: Week 2 Regionals: Veterans Still Have No Advantage
Taking a look at last year's second week regionals, I calculate that there is a .16 correlation between team number and seeding. This is a noticable difference from this year, where the correlation was -.026.

I did not do any tests to prove whether this is significant or not, however, it is much greater than this year's correlation, and looking at an x-y chart of team number and seed, you can sort of force yourself to start to see a trend. (nothing but the finest statiscal analysis from this guy!)

I suggest this adds weight to the "common sense" hypothesis that veteran teams DO have some advantages... certainly not overwhelming ones... but that experience DOES help, and that something in this year's game (perhaps the scheduling system) is preventing veteran teams from achieving their traditional success in qualifying rounds.

Jason