Updated Jun 29, 2009 by google.a...@anumbersgame.net

HybridTeams

The number and status of hybrid teams

These charts are based on the data from DebateResultsDotCom. They aggregate the results over all five years available (2003-2008), but do not track debaters though the years. That is, stats are tracked via debater-years or team-years.

The charts are not exactly accurately sized in relation to each other; this would make some of them too small to read.

The raw numbers season-by-season are also available.

Terminology ¶

On this page, a debater who has participated on a hybrid team is also called hybrid. Debaters who have only participated on hybrid teams are called contractors, all other hybrid debaters are moonlighters

Teams ¶

All Teams:	Hybrid teams:

Only 4% of teams are hybrid. Of those, 7.4% are made up of contractors, 58% are made up of moonlighters, and the remainder of teams are mixed.

Debaters ¶

All debaters:	Hybrid debaters:

6.1% of debaters are hybrids. 23% of these are contractors.

Tournaments and Ballots ¶

DebateResultsDotCom allows tournaments to specify whether or not they permit hybrid teams. Some tournaments, like Liberty, only allow hybrids in preliminary rounds, yet are still registered with "HybridsOK".

Legend ¶

Disallowed: Tournaments that disallowed hybrids
Quietly allowed: Tournaments that are registered as disallowing hybrids but that did have some hybrid teams competing
Allowed: Tournaments that allowed hybrids
Hypothetically allowed: Tournaments that are registered as allowing hybrids but did not have any hybrid teams competing

Summary ¶

157 tournaments registered as not allowing hybrids, but 35% of these actually did have hybrids competing.
61% of the 198 tournaments that did allow hybrids actually had some hybrids debating.
Tournaments where hybrids debated generated proportionally (and absolutely) more ballots than those where no hybrids debated: 50% of tournaments have some hybrid entries, but those tournaments generate 58% of the ballots. Of course, if hybrids are distributed among tournaments by size, then the tournaments with hybrids are likely to be larger.