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[QUOTE="CUSU, post: 1425593, member: 2908"]
I actually am a Math guy and I would be interested in looking at the data further.  If someone could actually get the data I would look at it and break it down.

One thing I think you are forgetting is that a lot of these 5 and 4 star teams also have very good coaches and systems, it isn't just the exceptions. If you ranked the coaches and ran the same tests would that also correlate the same way over time? I would think yes.

Does the 5 star team have better coaching than the 3 star team they beat? Most likely, it isn't only the teams star rating. Some of the middling teams coaches and schemes are not as good as the perennial powers. There are many factors to this equation and I don't think this breakdown of the numbers is definitive by any means. It tells a story at the team level, but not at the individual level.

I think that's the thing a few people are disagreeing on is team ranking vs. individual ranking. Do the team rankings correlate ? Yes.  The bigger question I have is it that top rated 5 star in their class that contributed most to that or the 3 star guy? If I could see that data I think it would make or break the analysis for me.

Bam and Bcubs are looking at it more at the individual level which I would say that this article fails to address. This is purely the overall team ranking.
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