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Originally Posted by s_forbes
Now I'm a bit confused; this post shows that the new seeding algorithm keeps the ranking order more or less the same (using last years data). The post you linked shows a completely different result.
Which is actually correct? |
You are looking at two different sets of scores, but regardless, I think you still can see the same thing in each. Here are two cases:
Curie 2009
-- Team 668 was in 44th place. According to the new seeding, they are now in 3rd.
Newton 2009
-- Team 1629 was in 8th place. According to the new seeding, they are now in 22nd.
Those are huge changes, as how they impact the teams. If you had team that totally dominated before, 75-0, for example, that team doesn't do any better than the teams they just beat, and perhaps if there had been a penalty - they would actually do worse than the teams they just beat.