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Message: [QUOTE="OFID, post: 3422775, member: 10412"] I finally went back and looked more closely at the games in which AP Top 10 teams played a sub-200 opponent. The women's teams collectively played 41 such games. The median margin of victory was 41 points; half of the MOVs were between 34 and 57 points. Of the 41 games, 37 (90.2%) had a margin of victory of at least 20 points. The smallest MOV was 5 points (Stanford over Cal Baptist). A stem-and-leaf plot looks like this: The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the right of the | 0 | 5 1 | 149 2 | 26899 3 | 34455666 4 | 001123479 5 | 045678 6 | 02588 7 | 04 8 | 01 The first line means that there was one game with an MOV between 5 and 10 points, and the MOV was 5. The second line means that there were three games between 10 and 20 points, and the MOVs were 11, 14, 19, and so on. Here's where I'm going to have to eat some crow. I was correct that there were more games for the men (48 vs 41), but that was about it. The median MOV for the men was 26; half of the MOVs were between 20 and 32. Of those 48 games, 32 (75%, which is definitely not about 90%) had an MOV of at least 20. The smallest MOV was 2 points (San Diego St over San Jose St). The stem-and-leaf plot looks like this: The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the right of the | 0 | 2 1 | 23334567777 2 | 00133445555667888999 3 | 111224569 4 | 1344 5 | 017 The shapes of the distributions differ some, but, in general, the men's distribution is shifted ~15 points to the left of the women's distribution; i.e., the men's games were more competitive. I'm not sure that I'd characterize them as competitive in an absolute sense (only 1 game was decided by < 12 points), but they were more competitive than the women's. [/QUOTE]

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