paper: Relative Success of Championship Teams based on Qualification Method

[Basel A]

Updated these numbers. New chart.

A few notes:

I only used the first 24 teams in elims from each division. I'm not deriding the role that 4th teams played on alliance, it was just to keep the number consistent from year to year. I can't pick out who the 25th through 32nd teams would have been for 2004-2013, so I chose to leave them out for 2014.

There's a downward trend in the district teams' success rate. Possible explanations include the increase in qualifying teams from Michigan, the addition of the NE and PNW district systems, regression to the mean, and random year-to-year variations. I personally think it's mostly the last one. If there's interest, I could break out the different district systems' success rates, which could shed some light.

This was a historically bad year for Rookies at the Championship. Only two made it to elims, and they were not in the top 24. It was also bad for registered teams, none of whom made elims, but that can mostly be explained by the very small number of registered teams at the CMP this year (four).