Posted by Tom Vanderslice.
Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 9/1/99 8:51 PM MST
In Reply to: statistical bonus points posted by Joe Johnson on 8/30/99 7:33 PM MST:
After realizing...hey..i've got the scores from 2 regionals from last year...i went and jsut did some quick stats on them:
chicago:
avg = 56
st. dev = 73
detroit (that is what i have it labeled as...but i must have meant michigan...i dunno..its a big list of scores thouhg...
avg = 83
st. dev = 120
so just based on this data...you can see that it would be impossible to accomplish the goal (defense gets as much credit
as offense) just b/c ther real numbers don't work out well...it would be impossible to be a full st. dev below the avg...
now i didn't run any #'s to see whether this would really benefit offense 'less'...but i think its a moot point anyway...
Tom