<<Will NAQT list the ranking for all the teams (so you know where you stand) or do they only keep that internally?>> In the past everything has been kept internal, except for the public announcements of actual invitations, and last year we started privately informing teams who were "pending" on the waitlist (about the first five positions initially; fewer later in the process) of their position there so they could be thinking about their decision in the likelihood of receiving an invitation. Without supplying the mathematical formulas, I've explained enough about the ranking process I think for teams to have a pretty good idea of what we're doing and what's important. I think, however, that we will want to continue not giving rankings with the numbers that produced those rankings attached. (The statistics are there for all to see, but not the exact permutations that we put them through.) We won't be changing the formula in midstream for this invitation process, but in the past we've tinkered with it between years, making improvements, and, frankly, I think we want to maintain the flexibility of being able to do that in future without having to explain every tink, and that is much easier for us to do if it remains internal. That said, I see no reason why we can't make public the order of the top of the waitlist for each division. That has the very great advantage to those teams (and even to teams yet further down the list, though their vanity may be touched) of giving them a more solid basis for judging the prospects of their ultimately receiving an invitation, and so to plan. I am thinking that this outweighs some disadvantages, such as the scrutiny (and perhaps carping) of teams that will inevitably feel that they have been screwed over by the numbers and are not placed where they think they ought to be. But that happens to some extent whether we make the waitlist public or not, so what the heck. For the teams receiving initial invitations, our preference is to just announce the list; there is no point we think to stressing that Team A got the 24th invitation while Team B wasn't invited until 31, when they are both invited at the same time in the same "Stage 1" process. We will, however, this year also make public at the time of the initial announcements of invitations the order of the top ten waitlisted teams. By the way, there were delays in receiving the necessary statistics from two regions, each with excusable, uh, excuses. One came in this evening, and the other I believe is promised still tonight. The list of initial invitations (and the top ten of the waitlist for each division) should, therefore, be issued either late tomorrow or else on Friday. Invited teams will be asked to respond by midnight on Feb. 26, with the possibility of a single short extension if needed. Eric H., for NAQT
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