The Oracle of Notre Dame

Interesting Stats

• There are 180 teams in the database.

• There are 16290 possible different combinations of two teams (where the two teams need not be distinct, and could be in either order). Here is the number of combinations that yield a certain degree of separation:

  Degrees of Separation	Combinations
  0	180
  1	1491
  2	4014
  3	4822
  4	2498
  5	743
  6	11
  Infinity	2531

• The largest finite degree of separation between any two teams in the database is six. There are only 11 different combinations that have six degrees of conference separation, and all 11 combinations involve one team.

• There are 16 teams in conferences that have never had a change in membership. Because of this, they are only connected to the teams in their conference. Their degree of separation from other teams is Infinity. None of these 16 teams are in Division I-A today.

• The most separated team in the database is Chicago, whose average finite degree of separation with respect to the other teams is 3.96341.

• The most connected team is Tulsa, whose average degree of separation is 1.87195. Tulsa is, not coincidentally, the team that's had the most conferencemates: 45.

• You can adjust the minimum years to be in a conference together for two teams to be considered connected. Changing this number affects the degrees of separation between teams. If you set the minimum number of years to 4, then there will be combinations of teams that have more than six degrees of separation.

• You can restrict the search to teams currently in Division I-A. If you do that, there will be combinations with more than six degrees of separation.

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