Hello! Another year, more Quiz Bowl! As the season begins to kick back up, so will MSQBrank. Like in the past, our rankings are based off of statistics, and our methodology is still based off of Groger Ranks.
Rankings
Rankings will be published every month, with a tentative first release in either November or December. Once more, our team is (even) smaller and ever busier in school, but we will do our best to provide you with the most complete stats as possible. A low amount of links for certain sets may affect ranking accuracy, especially early on in the season. We will continue to release the top 100 teams.
Methodology
Much credit is owed to Groger Ranks, who created the formula that we use to calculate scores from each tournament. Powers per game, points per bonus, and negs per game are used to evaluate scores for each team. We will be taking into account teams' best, 2nd best, and 3rd best performances if there are multiple data points and averaging them for the final MSQBRank score. If a team has 2 results available, their best and second best scores will be weighted 2 to 1. For 2+ results, the best, 2nd best, and 3rd best will be weighted 3 to 2 to 1. If a team only has 1 result, that result will be computed for the final MSQBRank score.
Region Rankings
Our “region” definitions for our rankings are based on this map.
Our Team
Our team this year consists of the following people, all closely related to the middle school Quiz Bowl community.
Claire Chan
Sheehan Banka
Andrew Gao
Evann Tu
Robert Wisdom
Ahadi Yara
Errors
Please contact me (Claire) via PM on these forums or on Discord (ccdhsqb) 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/concerns for us.
Looking forward to a great season! Let's do this!
MSQBRank 24-25
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MSQBRank 24-25
Last edited by CCMMSQB_2089 on Sun Nov 10, 2024 7:33 pm, edited 5 times in total.
Claire Chan (she/they)
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Re: MSQBRank 24-25
Is there a list for set adjustments yet?
Russ McGlaughn
8th Grade
Rainbow Middle School (2022-present)
Southside High School (2023-present)
2023, 2024 MSNCT Rising Star
Alabama MS State Champion 2024
8th Grade
Rainbow Middle School (2022-present)
Southside High School (2023-present)
2023, 2024 MSNCT Rising Star
Alabama MS State Champion 2024
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Re: MSQBRank 24-25
Set adjustments are made (and therefore adjusted) with tournament data, of which we do not have yet given that there have only been three tournaments so far with middle school teams this year.
Claire Chan (she/they)
Darien '26
Middlesex '22
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Re: MSQBRank 24-25
Hi everyone! It's been a while, so we're excited to announce a few new updates:
- Keep an eye out at the end of the month! We are planning to release a ranking set of the top 100 teams sometimes towards the end of this month, and we have over 30 tournaments in our database already!
- We're announcing a slight methodology change as well! We will begin adding weighted rankings going forward, mirroring Groger Ranks a bit more closely. We will be taking into account teams' best, 2nd best, and 3rd best performances if there are multiple data points and averaging them for the MSQBRank score. If a team has 2 results available, their best and second best scores will be weighted 2 to 1. For 2+ results, the best, 2nd best, and 3rd best will be weighted 3 to 2 to 1. If a team only has 1 result, that result will be computed for the MSQBRank score. The original post has been updated to reflect this.
Claire Chan (she/they)
Darien '26
Middlesex '22
MSQBRank 2023-2024
Darien '26
Middlesex '22
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