Registration 2015

[ebarker]

Mark,

Can you provide a table of how many teams are competing in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc events ?

It is what I'd call the breadth versus depth analysis.
hmmm, comparing districts and old fashioned regionals' is a little different in that regard.

Ed

[Mark McLeod]

You mean like this?

Event Week --- All -- District -- Regional
week 1 ------- 610 --- 265 ------ 345
week 2 ------- 464 --- 241 ------ 223
week 3 ------- 727 --- 252 ------ 475
week 4 ------- 768 --- 286 ------ 482
week 5 ------- 826 --- 294 ------ 532
week 6 ------- 666 --- 101 ------ 565
week 7 ---------- 0 ------ 0 ---------- 0
week 9 --------- 28 ----- 0 ---------- 0

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

You mean like this?

Event Week --- All -- District -- Regional
week 1 ------- 610 --- 265 ------ 345
week 2 ------- 464 --- 241 ------ 223
week 3 ------- 727 --- 252 ------ 475
week 4 ------- 768 --- 286 ------ 482
week 5 ------- 826 --- 294 ------ 532
week 6 ------- 666 --- 101 ------ 565
week 7 ---------- 0 ------ 0 ---------- 0
week 9 --------- 28 ----- 0 ---------- 0

Pretty sure he was looking for counts of teams participating in multiple events, not how many per week.

[Mark McLeod]

Oh, I see now.
I have that on a computer at home.
I'll post it when I get back around dinner time (ET).

[Mark McLeod]

No District Championship or World CMP included:

(3) 4 events
(52) 3 events
(1094) 2 events
(1705) 1 event

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

No District Championship or World CMP included:

(3) 4 events
(52) 3 events
(1094) 2 events
(1705) 1 event

Are you able to pull out regional only teams? My school district is interested in knowing how many other teams do 2 regional events.

[Mark McLeod]

Total teams = 2854
Regional teams = 2014 (71%)
District teams = 840 (29%)


Regional teams only, no District teams:

• (37) 3 events
• (513) 2 Events
• (1464) 1 event

District Teams Only:

• (3) 4 events
• (15) 3 events
• (581) 2 events
• (241) 1 event (I assume mostly waitlisted)

Districts sending teams out to play at Regionals:

• (1) Indiana
• (1) New England
• (8) MAR
• (11) Michigan

[ebarker]

that too is interesting data, but what I meant but didn't explain well is this,

all teams participate in 1 event
many teams are in 2 events
a bundle are in 3 events
only a few are in 4 events.


so how many is "all", "many", "a bundle" and "only a few"..........

in other words what is the 'play' distribution'

if you are in the district system, you get more 'play'

[dodar]

Originally Posted by ebarker

that too is interesting data, but what I meant but didn't explain well is this,

all teams participate in 1 event
many teams are in 2 events
a bundle are in 3 events
only a few are in 4 events.


so how many is "all", "many", "a bundle" and "only a few"..........

in other words what is the 'play' distribution'

if you are in the district system, you get more 'play'

Well if you add up all his data:

All(1705)
Many(1094)
A Bundle(52)
A Few(3)

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by dodar

Well if you add up all his data:

All(1705)
Many(1094)
A Bundle(52)
A Few(3)

Or possibly he means:

• All = 2854
• Many (All-1705) = 1149
• Bundle (Many-1094) = 55
• Few (Bundle-52) = 3

[Hallry]

Mark,

Do you have the current numbers of how many teams are in each of the district systems? It's interesting to me that MAR seems to have a much higher percentage of teams registered for outside regionals than the other four district systems (possibly even combined?).

(P.S. Thanks for providing all this data every year! )

EDIT:
After doing some quick calculations, it appears that 11 out of the 120 MAR teams are currently traveling to outside regionals in 2015, which is 9.17% of all MAR teams. Meanwhile, 8 of the 350(?) FiM teams are registered for outside regionals, or 2.29% of all FiM. Which that data, and the fact that there are only 1 NE FIRST team, 1 Indiana Team, and 0 PNW teams also attending outside regionals, it would appear that MAR has not only a greater percentage of teams competing at outside regionals than any other district system, but also a larger percentage than all of the other district systems combined.

EDIT 2:
Mark corrected me below, I switched up the amount of MAR and FiM teams traveling out-of-district for 2015. But the fact still stands, there are more MAR teams competing at outside regionals in 2015 than from all of the other district systems combined.

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Or possibly he means:

• All = 2854
• Many (All-1705) = 1149
• Bundle (Many-1094) = 55
• Few (Bundle-52) = 3

Interesting,,,,, thanks for the data

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Hallry

EDIT:
After doing some quick calculations, it appears that 11 out of the 120 MAR teams are currently traveling to outside regionals in 2015.

You transposed some numbers, but you're still right.

District - # teams - # outside events - % playing outside
FIM ------- 351 ------------- 11 --------------- 3.13%
MAR ------ 120 -------------- 8 ---------------- 6.67%
NE -------- 167 -------------- 1 ---------------- 0.60%
PNW ------ 149 -------------- 0 ---------------- 0.00%
IN ---------- 53 -------------- 1 ---------------- 1.89%


MAR - 6.67% vs everyone else - 5.62%

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Hallry

It's interesting to me that MAR seems to have a much higher percentage of teams registered for outside regionals than the other four district systems (possibly even combined?).

I would hazard a guess that it's due to the proximity of outside regionals to MAR and MAR teams vs. everywhere else.

PNW: Nearest regional event for PNW teams would be Utah, SVR, or Sacramento, all a full day's driving for the nearest PNW teams.
MI: Sure, you've got MN (Duluth x 2), Toronto (x 2), North Bay, Milwaukee, Midwest, and Queen City within a "reasonable" drive, depending where you are in the state. But those are all a bit of a drive, particularly westbound (MN, WI, Midwest), or across the border (the three Canadian events). Indiana has district events, if you can get in.
NE: You've got NYC, Long Island, and Tech Valley as possibilities, maybe Finger Lakes if you want to push it a bit. All are rather crowded events. Montreal is cross-border; anything beyond NY is getting into MAR territory and thus dependent on the goodwill of the good folks in MAR and their open spots.
IN: Could probably make Midwest or Queen City in about a day, not so sure about anything beyond that.
MAR: You only have NYC, Long Island, Tech Valley (north part of the area), Pittsburgh, DC, Virginia, and Chesapeake within a nice easy drive.

tl;dr: MAR just has more regionals handy. MI has IN districts (and vice versa) or crossing the border; NE has to contend with NY teams at their nearest events; PNW doesn't have much of anything anywhere near their boundaries.



Hey, Mark: Is anybody taking the plunge for the title of "First Cross-District Play" yet?

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by EricH

I would hazard a guess that it's due to the proximity of outside regionals to MAR and MAR teams vs. everywhere else.

MAR: You only have NYC, Long Island, Tech Valley (north part of the area), Pittsburgh, DC, Virginia, and Chesapeake within a nice easy drive.

There are literally zero MAR teams at any of those events.

4 MAR teams are in South Florida
1 is in Orlando
1 is in Las Vegas
1 is in Montreal
And 1 is in Waterloo

All of these teams are traveling very far. Two are even leaving the country (and they are the closest ones!)