**I am a bit unsure what to mark this as/title this as. We refer to this type of phenomena as 'volatility' but this apparently has a specific context with regards to statistical phenomena so any suggestions to that will help me as well. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to quantify the degree of variability for the following scenario. Suppose we are taking a snap shot of the top 3 best teams in a league of 30 teams every week for 20 weeks. For example Week 1: 1. Team A 0.673 2. Team B 0.648 3. Team C 0.637 Week 2: 1. Team D 0.713 2. Team A 0.642 3. Team E 0.596 Week 3: 1. Team B 0.643 2. Team D 0.618 3. Team F 0.598 ... Week 10: 1. Team F 0.613 2. Team C 0.602 3. Team G 0.598 We only know the top 3 teams and cannot infer anything about the rest of the standings. Additionally it would be interesting to see some sort of relation to Top 3 Win % but this isn't a necessity. What would be some methods to calculate the variability of the top 3 positions? In order to potentially offer forecasts for future weeks.