Over the years, LegallyIndia’s Mooting Premier League has successfully managed to reach out to the mooting community and has provided incentives for students to moot. With LegallyIndia’s excellent mooting initiative comes a caveat. Readers can pit their colleges against each other on an year by year basis, thus inculcating a (supposedly) healthy culture of competition and drama. However, it cannot be judged how colleges stand in the big picture - the amalgamation of consecutive years of mooting success. Solution? The Mooting Premier League Index.
Before any data of different seasons is added, certain problems need to be solved. The Mooting Premier League is an evolving entity. It has tinkered with the points system over different seasons. In the first season only 705 points were awarded while in the latest edition, the tally rose to 1975. This presents a dilemma as because few points were awarded in the first season, team which did well would be at a disadvantage since scoring 10 points in the fourth edition is easier than in the first. So, instead of just adding points awarded in different seasons, we have calculated points in percentages. If College X won 352.5 points out of 705, the points listed in the index will be 50. Benefit? This will make the points awarded for each season’s performance uniform. However, a problem arises again. Suppose, in a 10 year survey, College A is top ranked for the first 5 years and College B ranks first for the next 5 years. Surely, in the eleventh year, College B will be preferred over College A because its success is recent. So, to ensure that recent successes are more rewarding, the index follows a system of coefficients. The challenge posed would be to ensure that these coefficients do not destabilize the index by making past wins redundant and current victories glorified. So, the coefficient used is a nominal increase of 25%. So, finally, the calculation runs as such.
Percentage of (Number of points) of (Total points awarded during that season) multiplied by (Relevancy Coefficient)*
*The Relevancy Coefficient is taken as 1 for the first season, 1.25 for the second season, 1.5 for the third and so on.
Flaws? Some would argue that past successes should be weighed equally. We differ. As clichéd it might sound, times are changing fast. Historical establishments keep falling to younger juggernauts. If a new establishment continuously does well, it would still be nigh impossible for them to beat the lumbering behemoths which have fallen in current years but have a rich trophy cabinet owing to past successes. So, in order to create a dynamic index where you are as good as you perform, a slight advantage has been provided to colleges which are doing well currently. An advantage which does not, in any manner, cripple previous victories. So, here are the results.
| College | Points |
|---|---|
| 1. National Law School of India University, Bangalore | 89.81 |
| 2. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad | 63.62 |
| 3. National Law University, Delhi | 53.76 |
| 4. National Law University, Jodhpur | 52.21 |
| 5. West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata | 50.03 |
| 6. Indian Society of Law, Pune | 25.76 |
| 7. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar | 20.31 |
| 8. Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur | 17.95 |
| 9. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow | 17.40 |
| 10. Government Law College, Mumbai | 16.97 |
| 11. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab | 16.89 |
| 12. National Law Institute University, Bhopal | 16.34 |
| 13. Symbiosis Law School, Pune | 15.70 |
| 14. School of Excellence in Law, Chennai | 12.22 |
| 15. National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi | 10.31 |
The list only features the top fifteen colleges. For the whole list, look here. Criticism is welcome. Thank you for reading.
Comments
its ILS law college.
Well, being notable in four competitions just doesn't cut it. The points data has been directly taken from the Mooting Premier League and the rest of the procedure is explained in the blog. As for KIIT, they finished at 44 out of a total of 54 colleges. Solely because they did not have any victories in the first two seasons and only nominal points in the other two. The teams that have made top 15 have, to an extent, performed consistently over the four seasons.
Again, for all those who just skimmed down to read the table, the whole procedure is based on statistics and none of it is arbitrary. If you have read the procedure, RGNUL has been one of the most consistent colleges in the list and has managed to hover around the tenth rank every season. If you have any qualms with the listing, please see that they are calculated - not scores given by me on my whims.
Well, I have attached the file for everyone to see. However, Symbiosis Noida hasn't done anything much of note. They are at 35 out of 54, just average. Still, it is a new institution and has done better each season than before.
Just click on the name of the file. Worked great for me.
Thank you for reading. I agree that it was tough to arrive at the relevancy coefficient. However, a study would notice that the current coefficient has still allowed colleges like NALSAR to come 2nd with a noticeable difference after finishing 7th last year and SOEL Chennai to break into the top 15 after not garnering even a single point last season. After extensive deliberation, the two possible coefficient values which would actually put a difference in the table were 0.25 and 0.20. The author went with 0.25 this time but this can be rectified to 0.20 or even, in an extreme case, 0.15 in the next edition. A low coefficient would allow a college to play off it's success garnered 5-10 years ago, which should not be the case. The index looks to emphasize on recent victories with a foundation of past history.
Thank you for your suggestion. That can indeed be looked into for future editions. A preliminary check tells me that this will result in a change of about 10-15% in the current table. However, this is worth investigating further.
Thank you very much for the suggestion. It works. Earlier I clicked on the exe file link. Website was blocked due to malware etc.
Thank you for taking the time to delve into the statistics. However, please note that the file was for my personal use and so the college names are not officially designated but I believe that they would be easily recognizable. If any name seems ambiguous, feel free to ask.