MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Hello! It is a new season, and that means new MSQBRank rankings! Like last year, we will be publishing rankings monthly based off statistics and a methodology developed by Groger Ranks (big props to them).

Website
Our website is not working as of today, but we will hopefully have a long-term solution in time for the November rankings.

Rankings
Rankings are published at the end of every month (though some rankings may be pushed back to wait for stats from a recent tournament). We will release the top 100 teams.

Methodology
A big thanks to Groger Ranks, who created a formula that we use to produce scores for each tournament performance. We use powers per game, points per bonus, and negs per game to calculate the score(s) for each team. The best performance by each team is used as their final score.

Changes
We have made two changes for this season. First, we will no longer have the rule that a team must play three other middle school teams in order to be added to the rankings. Second, we have changed our regions, a new map can be found here!

Our Team
The MSQBRank team will consist of the following people, all closely related to the middle school quiz bowl community:

Aatreyo Bhattacharyya
Andrew Gao
Deven Hagen
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt
Aditya Khambekar
Neev Sahgal
George Tagtmeier
Melody Zou

Errors
Please contact us via email at [email protected] if you spot any misspelled team names, duplicates, wrong states, false data/data that hasn’t been inputted yet, see any other errors, or have any other comments for us.

We are looking forward to a great season! Good luck all teams!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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October rankings can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =782985123! As stated in the original post, we hope to have a permanent website soon.

Congratulations to Challenger-Strawberry Park A (CA) for being ranked first, Oak Valley A (CA) for being ranked second, and Chenery (MA) for third! Please do note that some rankings/scores could be inaccurate due to a low number of links for set adjustment purposes.
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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November rankings are up on this Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =986309793. We have added 159 new teams, bringing our total up to 332 teams, though we will only publish the top 100.

For this month, Challenger-Strawberry Park (CA) keeps their #1 lead. Chenery (MA) jumps a place to claim second, and Burleigh Manor B (MD) rounds out the top three. Again, some scores & rankings could be inaccurate due to a low number of links.
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Apologizes for the late rankings, but our last rankings of 2022 have been published here.

In this month's rankings, Chenery (MA) jumps to first, and Challenger Strawberry-Park (CA) remains a close second. Middlesex A (CT) pushed Burleigh Manor B (MD) into 4th place to claim 3rd place for themselves. This year's highest scores are higher than any time last year, and it has been a great season thus far. We wish the best of luck to all middle school teams this year!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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January rankings have been posted here! The top five teams this month remain in the same order as previous months. We hope everyone enjoys our first rankings of 2023, and here's to a great rest of the quizbowl season!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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February rankings are out! Our top four remains the same as last ranking, but we welcome Burleigh Manor A (MD) to the top five!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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March MSQBRank is out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing. Enjoy!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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April MSQBRank is out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing. A few days before MSNCT, we will release updated pre-nats rankings including data from tournaments yesterday and tournaments coming up this weekend. We hope you've enjoyed our rankings thus far!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Will there be postseason rankings?
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Vainglorious yet Victorious wrote: Tue May 02, 2023 6:57 pm Will there be postseason rankings?
Yes! Last year, we did rankings at the end of May and June and we expect to do that this year assuming there are new results.
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Great, thank you! Looking forward to the post-MSNCT rankings.
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Re: MSQBrank 22-23 Season

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Congrats to everyone at MSNCT two weeks ago! Our May rankings are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing, and these are likely the last of the season seeing as there are no closed middle school tournaments in June. Thanks to the community for a great season, we hope to be back next year!
Andrew Gao (he/him)
Chenery Middle School '23, Belmont High School '27
Pandruwu Sheetz, ex-MSQBRank
2022 MS IPNCT Finalist (3rd), 2022 MSNCT Finalist (2nd), 2023 MSNCT Champion
[email protected] | pandruwu on Discord
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