pic: Top 10% OPRs compared via standard deviation distribution - 2008-2015

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by IKE

Thanks for posting. I have made of looked at this sort of trend for a handful of years, but use a different normalizing function.

To a certain degree, I expect that the 2015 data might decrease a bit thanks to weeks 5&6. There will be more teams playing their 2nd event during those weeks which will raise the median pervormance quite a bit.

It is possible, but I think the real driving force this year is the lack of defense. I think the top teams have always been this much better at scoring than everyone else, however facing regular defense from other teams dragged down their average scores significantly.