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How is Elo calculated? — K factor, the newbie adjustment, tournament weighting, and how this differs from other models.

Tournament coverage — 2015-2016

Which TOC bid tournaments this season's ratings are built from, in calendar order. Older seasons predate Tabroom's current export formats, so some results could not be collected; anything listed as missing is absent from the ratings.

Included (20)

• Niles Township Invitational — Sep 10, Finals
• Greenhill Fall Classic — Sep 19, Octos
• Chattahoochee Cougar Classic — Sep 25, Finals
• Georgetown Day School — Sep 25, Quarters
• Jack Howe Memorial Tournament CSU Long Beach — Sep 26, Finals
• University of Michigan HS Debate Tournament — Oct 28, Octos
• KCKCC Policy Debate TOC Qualifier — Nov 6, Finals
• Glenbrooks Speech & Debate Tournament — Nov 21, Octos
• Alta Silver & Black — Dec 3, Quarters
• La Costa Canyon Winter Classic — Dec 4, Finals
• John Edie Holiday Debates — Dec 18, Octos
• Arizona State HDSHC Invitational — Jan 7, Semis
• Gonzaga University Conway Winter Classic — Jan 8, Semis
• Samford University Bishop Guild Invitational — Jan 8, Finals
• University of Georgia HS Bulldog Debates — Jan 14, Semis
• JW Patterson Debates at Heritage Hall — Jan 16, Finals
• Pennsbury Falcon Invitational — Feb 5, Semis
• Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament — Feb 11, Octos
• Cal Invitational UC Berkeley — Feb 13, Octos
• Lakeland Westchester Classic — Feb 26, Semis

Included, but missing rounds (1)

• John Edie Holiday Debates — Dec 18, missing elims

Not included (32)

• New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament at Bronx High School of Science — Oct 16, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• Meadows School Tournament — Oct 30, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• Wake Forest Earlybird — Nov 12, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• National Speech & Debate Season Opener at the University of Kentucky — Dec 4, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• University of Houston Cougar Classic — Jan 14, Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Lexington Winter Invitational — Jan 16, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• Golden Desert Debate Tournament — Feb 6, Quarters bid; no usable results ingested
• ADL NSDA Fall Invitational — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Barkley Forum for High Schools — Octos bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Bingham PF Policy Invitational — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Blue Valley Southwest — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Colleyville — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• CypressBay — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• ETHS Superb Owl at Evanston Township HS — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Grapevine Classic — Quarters bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Heart of Texas Invitational — Octos bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Iowa Caucus Debates at Cedar Rapids Washington HS — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Isidore Newman — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Kanellis — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Lewis and Clark Invitational — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Longhorn Classic at University of Texas-Austin — Quarters bid; no Tabroom id verified
• NY Fall Faceoff at Mamaroneck High School — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Notre Dame - Harvard-Westlake Invitational — Quarters bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Omaha Westside Warrior Invitational — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• PineCrest — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Saint Georges Invitational — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Southern Bell Forum — Octos bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Stanford Invitational — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• The Paradigm at Dowling Catholic — Quarters bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Trevian Invitational New Trier Township HS — Quarters bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Valley Mid America Cup — Semis bid; no Tabroom id verified
• Westminster — Finals bid; no Tabroom id verified

• This season's own bid list is no longer published anywhere, so Elo tournament weights use the 2014-15 bid levels (recovered from the Internet Archive), which the bid structure closely tracked. A few tournaments with no 2014-15 counterpart default to the Quarters weight.
• This is the earliest season on the site; Tabroom's exports from this era are the least consistent, so coverage is the thinnest of any season.
• Berkeley: both Katy Taylor teams entered under one identical code, so their elimination rounds cannot be attributed and are recorded as byes. Gonzaga: an 'Interlake SY' entry appears in no field list; its rounds are byes.