For many years, WISC league assignments in Round 1 were based on a seeding system that did its best to ensure each league was balanced and, therefore, earning points in each league was roughly as difficult as any other.

schwarze and I believed we could use a combination of each owner's historical WIS stats ("Stats Rank", which looks at a variety of metrics from everyone's user profile) and their past performance in the WISC ("Tourney Rank", where more recent tournaments get more weight) to not necessarily predict performance in the tourney but just to act as a good framework to do these seedings. It's imperfect of course, but generally does a good job.

I talked with schwarze and redcped, and we thought it'd be fun to bring the system back but just for fun this year. Unlike before, these had no impact on how leagues are assigned (I set this up last night and league numbers were assigned weeks ago).

First, here are some summary statistics about our group as a whole. Overall, our group of 72 has...

• Put together 44,756 full season teams
• Played over 7.1 million games
• Made the playoffs 17,504 times (39%)
• Won 2,909 championships

And here are averages per owner for...
Teams: 622
Regular season wins: 50,617
Reg. season win %: .520
Playoff teams: 243
Playoff wins: 1,104
Playoff win %: .516
Championships: 40
Championship %: 6.5%
Owner Rating: 43,892

And these are the owners who have the most/best...
Teams: mensu1954 (2,442)
Win%: discodemo (.590)
Playoff% (percent of teams that made the playoffs): discodemo (79%)
Playoff Win%: milest (.570)
Championships: mensu1954 (204)
Championship%: (percent of teams that won the WS): ozomatli (16%)
Rating Points per Team: discodemo (279)

And, lastly, here are the rankings (note that Appearances does not include this year):

Overall Rank	Owner	Tourney Rank	Stats Rank	Appearances	Round 2 Appearances	Best Finish	Avg Finish
1	discodemo	1	3	14	14	2	5
2	ozomatli	5	2	8	5	2018 & 2020 Champion	15
3	schwarze	4	7	19	18	2023 Co-Champion	8
4	mensu1954	6	6	11	11	3	11
5	_JJP_	2	11	3	3	3	9
6	justinlee_24	3	17	12	10	Defending Champion	14
7	milest	10	8	2	2	5	12
8	rbow923	12	1	14	11	2010 Champion	15
9	hebdomad	18	5	4	2	4	18
10	d_rock97	11	9	6	4	2	18
11	jbohrman	9	14	14	12	3	15
12	mjkrunner	7	13	6	6	4	10
13	jfranco77	13	10	16	12	2008 Champion	20
14	barracuda3	17	12	8	6	11	21
15	ronthegenius	16	15	9	6	2005 Champion	19
16	emanes10	8	20	1	1	10	10
17	redcped	14	21	8	5	6	20
18	Relkcirts	22	16	12	5	13	33
19	buddhagamer	19	22	14	10	3	20
20	duhbigcat	20	23	5	3	16	30
21	contrarian23	26	18	13	4	9	32
22	sford	31	4	18	5	10	34
23	toysboys	15	30	4	3	7	26
24	ledfoot	23	28	8	4	9	27
25	dvorr80	27	29	3	1	22	43
26	firesalt	32	26	9	0	31	44
27	magicdreamer	21	39	11	4	5	31
28	donaldjtrump	40	24	5	0	27	47
29	mattedesa	28	33	2	0	28	31
30	DCNats4000	43	27	4	0	37	50
31	gworear	29	34	3	1	24	41
32	newarkwilder	35	25	20	7	10	36
33	RebJebb	24	37	3	1	23	34
34	pinstripes5	37	32	3	1	21	45
35	beauchamp	25	61	19	5	13	43
36	cubbies84	34	36	14	2	17	43
37	redsfive	44	31	4	0	34	53
38	Qhadow123	38	35	2	0	39	42
39	sweil		38	0
39	calhoop	36	44	21	7	7	38
39	Jtpsops	33	53	15	3	22	52
42	markeking	46	19	21	7	10	42
43	CarrDoor		42	0
44	Bansberg	47	40	2	0	47	47
45	Jdh34	42	48	14	2	21	55
46	AAartist3	39	47	3	0	34	40
47	mllama54	45	46	15	2	20	46
48	bullet6464	51	43	3	0	52	56
49	ff09	59	41	3	0	50	70
50	DarthDurron	50	45	10	0	42	65
51	bheid408	41	51	4	0	25	51
52	toddcommish	49	52	14	0	27	61
53	chewy3344	58	49	1	0	55	55
54	chargingryno	48	56	7	0	37	58
55	MJDSupporter	30	65	3	1	12	53
56	pumped	64	50	1	0	61	61
57	dirtbag13		55	0
58	PrimetimeTW	53	58	3	0	39	59
59	wstevens07	62	54	4	0	57	79
60	trd3	57	57	14	0	30	61
61	just4me	55	66	14	0	46	68
62	Ribbentrop	54	62	3	0	49	72
63	oldtimer59	60	60	3	0	63	75
64	ceno1515	52	64	2	0	52	72
65	big_dowg	63	59	6	0	60	80
66	happyhours	61	63	16	0	37	75
67	3dayrotation	56	70	4	0	49	78
68	garmansouth	65	67	10	0	51	83
69	tridentric	66	71	14	0	49	86
70	SAKABAKBRG	67	68	2	0	70	71
71	DJTaylor		69	0
72	franklynne	68	72	2	0	72	80

Very cool! This gives me something else to aim for! Thanks for taking the time on this, Oz!

Thanks for the tourney info, but I don't have over 6,000 teams. Far from it with 2444...

Posted by mensu1954 on 6/15/2025 6:47:00 PM (view original):
Thanks for the tourney info, but I don't have over 6,000 teams. Far from it with 2444...

It looks like the 6218 was mensu1954's total playoff wins

Fixed. Thankfully just a data issue with that particular datapoint rather than something larger.

Says here I was champ inn 2010. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago. Does that make me an elder statesman? or competitor emeritus?

I thinik ronthegenius is has the longest number of years since his Championship (2005).