Repdigit Numbered Teams

[Kris Verdeyen]

Interesting....

Despite the statistics lesson; which was fantastic, thanks, Bongle; there might be another reason for a difference in the retention of repdigit teams as opposed to a random team, and that is that the repdigit teams are biased more towards the low numbers - there are 9 from 1-10 (which you neglected, Richard), 9 from 11-100, and 9 from 101 to 1000. This means that, for all teams started after 2000 (team number 200-something), the older a team is, the more likely it is to be a repdigit. In addition, for teams older than that, the earlier in the alphabet a team's sponsor's name is (or was in 2000), the more likely it is to be a repdigit. I'm not sure about backfilling team numbers after teams drop out, but that practice might have happened for a while, and then been abandoned. Anyone with more details care to comment?