2013 MAR Standings

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Good idea.

Here, 40.38577925, -74.95323414, is the center weighted by average district score. After all, why should a team's location matter if they don't attend the championships? Either way, it's still in Lambertville, just a little farther west, suggesting that the good teams are pretty evenly distributed over MAR.

The inverse-funding center sounds like the best idea, but unfortunately I don't think that that information is publicly available. I tried to replicate it by finding the inverse-size-of-sponsor-list center. I know that some sponsors give more than others and that this isn't perfect, but hopefully the size of the sponsor list roughly correlates to team funding. Anyway, that center is 40.44366073, -74.80339903. It's in a place called Ringoes, NJ. It's a little farther north and a little farther east than the center of teams.

Another possible metric to use (that I don't know how to determine, so I'll let you guys who do know do it) to compare these locations, is take the team list from MAR Championships last year, or even the team list from NJ/PA regionals in years past(obviously excluding teams from outside the MAR area).