2014 MAR Standings

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Last year, the 50th placed team had 47 points. The last team to accept an invite, I believe, had 39 points. With five more invite spots and no growth in the region, how are you determining your "somewhere in the 50s" number? Are the first and second year bonus points really that much of a factor?

That would be the cutoff for the 55th ranked team, and I would guess it would be in the low 50's - thought I didn't type that for some reason. No idea how many declines we'll have this year - hopefully fewer with the MAR grant system better developed and more time to get registered and paid. Though we do have more 3rd event teams this year, haven't looked in depth at how those teams are doing/how many points they'll pull from the system through elims/awards.

The overall point system has inflated by more than just rookie points. I'm assuming we have 108 teams this year (136 & 896 no show at Clifton?), we had 109 last year with a few only doing 1 event.

Qual Points - same structure, roughly same # teams
Elim Selection - the old system (10/8 pts per round) yielded 196 points per event, the new model yields 210.
Awards - old system gave 49 pts max, new system gives 86 points max
Rookies - 95 points total

So last year we had 5336 points across 109 teams. ~49/team if we're looking at an average - which roughly works for a lazy calculation of a 55 team cutoff. Real cutoff at #55 was 45 points. So a little inflated, but not too bad.

This year we should have 5891 points across 108 teams. Doesn't count any points lost to 3rd event teams in elims or awards. Gives us ~54.5 points/team as an average. So we're looking at increase of roughly 5pts/team from the changes to the point system.

From the 38 teams who have finished both events, the middle of the pack (#19) has 57 points. That grouping of teams looks better than average though.