So out of a Twitter challenge, I went through the data from the Bayou Regional that 2815 and 1398 attended and adjusted it to reflect the five-point win bonus that will come into effect in Week 2 after Team Update 16.
The results are significant; only five of the 38 teams held the same position afterward. (Notably, 1912 retained its top seed.)
I've ignored a few things in my calculations:
-Red cards are ignored, as I don't have a good way to tell who had one when.
-2920, as you may have heard, did not pass inspection until just before their final qualification match. As that match was a 0-0 tie, the new rule addressing their situation would've resulted in no points of any sort. Net result had I accounted for it: 38th of 38.
-Ball penetration penalties, which played no small part in a lot of those 0-0 ties, are ignored simply because there's no way to divorce them from the gameplay that happened at Bayou.
The Google Docs spreadsheet is located at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...VTc Gc&hl=en; I welcome you to poke through the data yourself or crunch numbers for one of the other Week 1 events to draw your own conclusions.