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Re: [FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

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Originally Posted by tindleroot (Post 1600236)

Perhaps count the culture award flat bonus only once. If a team wins two RAS, give them the points for one. You could perhaps only count points for the highest culture award achieved (i.e. points for Chairman's only, not both Chairman's and EI) but I would disagree with that because a team that wins both of those awards, in my opinion, deserves more points.

Let's get the discussion rolling, folks, so we can figure out this rule (and others) before drafting season begins.

I'd go with points for any culture award earned. I want to say that there's something in the district rules about not winning RAS twice, but I'm not entirely certain.

So, let's try this out:
Robot awards and robot performance are averaged--you're eligible for everything at every event--or POSSIBLY normalized to two district events. Culture change awards (DCA, DEI, DRAS) are given separately, on a per-each basis. That is, every time a team gets one of those awards, they get those points. (If teams like 6012 are good enough to win RAS twice, then you better believe they're good enough to get 30 FF points.)

Re: [FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

So something that TBC has brought up in internal discussions is that for districts under a flat bonus model (I think is good) the current values of points assigned to winning that is rather high with the rest of the scores being averaged. I would pull up last year's district score breakdown but it seems the doc has been taken down :(

Perhaps visiting the discussion on a separate district scaling with the flat bonus model?

Re: [FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

#2Champs Drafting Idea:

What's often a struggle for teams is keeping up with two simultaneous drafts. With Champs having twelve drafts over two short weeks, this provides a significant challenge. However, here is what I'd like to propose (two solutions).

1. Three staggered drafts on Monday and Tuesday before each Champs
- Carver starts at 7:00pm Monday, Galileo starts at 8:15pm on Monday, Hopper starts at 9:30 pm on Monday, all with different draft runners
- Repeat for all divisions

2. Two drafts each day on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday before each Champs
- Carver and Galileo start at 7:00pm on Sunday
- Hopper and Newton start at 7:00pm on Monday
- Repeat for all divisions

I personally am a fan of #1, but I think both are viable solutions, especially since no one is competing on April 16th (although April 23rd would produce a potential challenge).

Re: [FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

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Originally Posted by TDav540 (Post 1619272)

#2 is consistent with what we've done in the past, though #1 is viable (though... I wouldn't necessarily say that the times would work as proposed. Some folks on the East Coast gotta sleep, right?).

The other possible option is to run "list-required" drafts. If every FF team submitted a list, it'd take about 10 minutes to run a draft...mostly formatting the original posts! Just go "put a list for your 1st pick or longer in, and we'll go until somebody's list runs out."

Re: [FF]: 2017 Fantasy FIRST Proposed Rule Changes

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Originally Posted by EricH (Post 1619273)

I only say that so no drafts would overlap. We could easily start at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm. Regardless, at worst case, that draft would finish at ~10:45pm ET, which would be before the end of a the average Sunday night or Monday night football game.

I don't think doing a "list-required" draft is the ideal solution: live picking helps break up the draft and allow people to follow the action a little more easily.