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Speaking from my area of Illinois, Hinsdale Central and Glenbard West are both gaining strength and York has gotten a recent influx of strong players from Quest. Glenbard North also has a player who is very good at history. I would definitely look at West Suburban Conference and the surrounding area...

Will there be an online mirror of the set?

inb4 Williamsville wins nats

Can I be added to the private discussion forum?

In retrospect, not ranking Wayzata was a bad idea.

Hi, I'm looking to start a quiz bowl team at Auburn High School and have been looking for a place to start. I know there are some local tournaments in this forum but can anyone give me a few bits of advice as to what needs to be done to get the team started? Thanks! You're probably going to get mor...

Isn't it pretty much just LVS v. Hunter at this point?

I'm confused as to why Adlai Stevenson didn't at least get an honorable mention in the rankings. At IHSSBCA Kickoff http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4079/stats/upper_div_prelims Stevenson played with their approximate 2017-18 roster and got over 24 PPB on an IS-set, which should put them in...

I'm confused as to why Adlai Stevenson didn't at least get an honorable mention in the rankings. At IHSSBCA Kickoff http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4079/stats/upper_div_prelims Stevenson played with their approximate 2017-18 roster and got over 24 PPB on an IS-set, which should put them in ...

Anyone have predictions for 2017 Scobol Solo? I've made a preliminary list of participants that I think have strong-ish generalist ability. Alexander Kuptel Arjun Sundararajan Aristotle Vainikos Conrad Oberhaus Deepak Moparthi Ethan Strombeck Hanson Hao Jaden Lucas Mitch McCullar Sophie Netzel Tim C...

I thought removing outliers did a pretty good job at curbing the bias that we saw in last year's preseason poll. Another possible change that might be beneficial is eliminating any "0" votes for a team that crosses a certain vote threshold (say, 100 votes), as it may be that the voter in question ju...

The thing about TJ and other underranked teams is that their performance, especially at national tournaments, is highly variable. Teams like this tend to rely on tossup conversion instead of bonuses to win games, and while that certainly does produce results, it's also more susceptible to change (i...

nsb2 wrote:Oak Park-River Forest (who are underrated due to lack of tournament attendance)) will probably be more prominent in the coming years but could also jump into this category.

What is an "Oak Park River Forest"

I would probably also bump Stevenson into the upper category as the team has a lot of talent right now in addition to Govind. Olivia Lamberti is returning after a year of not playing, meaning Stevenson (re)gains a very good lit player. Yes- that was partly what I was referring to. It's also worth n...

I think Northview and Detroit Country Day deserve a mention as other top 30-ish teams that didn't lose their top scorer. Northview in particular is a team of all sophomores that should be much better this season. I would probably also bump Stevenson into the upper category as the team has a lot of t...

Will a sample packet of RMBCT be posted at some point?

I'm not sure enough about anything to post numerical rankings, but I'd expect the best teams in Illinois this year to be (in no particular order) IMSA, Stevenson, Fremd, OPRF, and Barrington. I could also see several of the downstate teams mentioned getting into this group, but it's impossible to p...

Already realizing that I forgot Carbondale and Uni Lab. Oh well.

This is my attempt at creating "Illinois Power Rankings" for the '17-'18 season. Obviously this is extremely subjective, so I encourage other people to come up with their own rankings. I'm not going to rank my own team (OPRF) because I don't feel like ranking myself but I will try to rank the other ...

The science category will be interesting to watch this year. I don't know too many players that are actively learning science upstate.

This is very self-centered of me, but I think that the West Suburban Conference will be the area to watch for any "dark horse" contenders. IMO, York, Lyons Township, and especially Glenbard West are all capable of becoming state contenders. Hinsdale Central, while they have taken a bit of a roster h...

Yes. No Illinois team will win it, but Naperville North will finish ahead of both Stevenson and Barrington, instigating much debate regarding whether the set was hard enough to differentiate the top teams (completely ignoring that Naperville North has been that good, too, all along). Can we just ta...

How many people are expected to make Team Illinois? Will there be a B team this year?

the return of AHAN wrote:Also, don't be so quick to dismiss the rest of the field; if you think question quality is that poor, who's to say there won't be an upset?

Wow, you totally called it.

Will there indeed be another hangout tonight? A couple of other people and myself would be interested in joining if possible.

So their will be 8 teams at IHSA state including Stevenson, IMSA, Auburn, OPRF, Uni Lab, Sandburg, Carbondale and Dunlap, assuming Auburn wins their sectional for the umpteenth time. Of these teams 3 were in the top 8 at NAQT state of the 5 that attended. To my knowledge all of these teams particip...

Unrelatedly, is there a reason that IHSA doesn't keep a public record of individual stats or PPB for their matches? It seems odd, seeing as the unreleased conference stats are supposed to be used as justification for sectional seedings. Even disregarding that, it would be convenient to be able to se...

Big Y wrote:Number of teams by state:
CA 23
IL 17
TX 16
KY 14
OH 12
NJ 11
NY 10
GA 9
MN 8
MO 8
PA 8
MI 7
TN 7
VA 7
FL 6
NC 6
MD 5
SC 5
MA 4
IN 3
LA 3
AL 2
DE 2
AZ 1
CT 1
MS 1
NV 1
ON 1
OR 1
SG 1

I made a low-budget heatmap to accompany this data.

You've probably seen it already from Ricky's link, but the NAQT Illinois State Championship is on neg5 as well.

Fenton Sectional:
1. Hinsdale Central
2. Oak Park River Forest
3. Fenwick
4. Riverside Brookfield

I would certainly be willing to help with stats. Sign me up!

Relatedly, I tried to go in that direction a little bit ago with this website and this one, but I wasn't too happy with how either one turned out. If there's any interest in the continuation of those projects, let me know.

1 Lincolnshire (Stevenson) 2 Barrington 3 Palatine (Fremd) 4 Mundelein (Carmel) 5 Wilmette (Loyola Academy) 6 Lake Forest (H.S.) 7 Palatine (H.S.) 8 Arlington Heights (St. Viator) seeds in our sectional... it sucks that only 1 team can make it to state because at least 4 of the top 8 teams are here...

I'm pretty late to this party, but I think the Illinois poll had a fairly high success rate at curbing regional bias. Our idea was to have each team in the rankings get equal representation. Each school submitted a ballot collectively and those ballots were fed through an alternative vote calculator...