Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Full rack!

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Match 39 ALMOST broke the game. its a shame 148 missed their ubertube, but kudos to the drivers of 148, 1503, and 1538 for their skills!

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Anyone calculate current OPRs from the matches so far?

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

78 looks to be in good shape, favored in 5 out of their 6 remaining matches, currently sitting at #1.

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

78 is definitely one impressive robot.

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Any one get video of this match?

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

I would love to see them team up with 88 TJ^2 again. They were very impressive in Boston with 1099 and would give any alliance a run for their money. Almost every match there were 3 robots heading to the wall with 3 ubertubes held high until they were hung and they just kept hanging tubes after until they successfully deployed their minibits.

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

The Newton matches have been fun and challenging. Today it felt like the team was fighting a bit of a scheduling headwind and a couple of folks decided that it would be interesting to analyze the strength of schedule. Nothing complex just the sum of average scores of opponents – the average scores of alliance partners (not including the averages for the team's strength of schedule (SofS) being analyzed), for all of matches played by each team so far on Newton. The analysis is likely imperfect and we would love to see some better way to look at the balance of the strength of schedule. Just to make it interesting we added overall rank as of Friday night.

A couple of observations:
1. We expect that to some extent, with this metric, that exceptional teams can make their schedule look easy and that struggling teams can make their schedule harder
2. Significant jumps in the point totals are likely worth looking at


Rank Team SofS
84 2660 811.4
45 1100 786.9
37 2122 781.1
83 3344 777.9
78 79 758.5
74 2974 753.9
77 2197 746.7
44 3792 743.5
81 3278 736.5
87 1984 735.9
88 3748 735.2
73 3126 730.1
71 1108 716.9
55 2614 702.2
59 811 697.3
bbb 233 686.8
85 2080 684.1
58 980 680.9
61 3612 680.2
46 3103 677.4
49 3242 676.2
48 494 665.5
26 302 664.8
52 2815 650.9
25 836 645.3
23 525 636.6
62 2264 635.4
66 2655 631.0
65 3536 628.5
40 11 612.0
15 2415 611.3
76 1604 604.9
86 3472 603.6
42 1732 601.5
80 3358 601.3
7 27 598.4
6 1730 590.7
28 1710 587.6
18 3009 585.6
41 3521 577.0
69 236 576.7
67 2342 576.1
36 1764 575.0
43 3284 573.6
72 1165 568.4
47 179 559.4
82 2797 543.1
32 3622 539.6
75 3478 533.9
11 217 524.7
64 2437 524.6
27 2046 523.3
22 842 521.8
34 2662 513.0
57 2338 508.8
9 340 506.5
53 3880 499.5
30 88 495.7
60 2481 492.7
12 624 488.5
51 1801 486.1
56 1502 485.8
70 337 479.1
29 1511 478.9
63 1942 475.2
31 1503 473.6
79 447 467.8
17 1731 442.8
54 1195 441.4
38 2809 440.5
21 353 430.5
5 1538 430.0
68 3505 417.1
13 16 406.1
4 3138 405.9
50 3483 403.0
14 234 399.7
16 2848 389.3
35 228 387.1
20 3547 361.5
39 386 349.8
33 1829 340.8
3 1676 338.5
8 25 333.1
1 78 327.3
19 3456 235.5
10 2039 144.5
2 148 124.8

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

1. 3138, 233, 1801
2.1676, 2415, 1732
3. 148, 234, 2481
4. 78, 1538, 494
5. 16, 27, 842
6. 1730, 2122, 11
7. 217, 1503, 25
8. 3456, 525, 2046

Thoughts everybody?

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Quarters:
1 beats 8 in 3
7 beats 2 in 2
3 beats 6 in 2
5 beats 4 in 3

Semis:
3 beats 7 in 3
5 beats 1 in 2

Finals:
5 beats 3 in 3, this matchup would be very close

alliances 3, 5, and 7 are my favorites to win.

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

I might be biased, but alliance #7 is looking pretty good. :cool:

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

and 7 beats 2 in 2? Seriously? Dunno about that. TBD.

Edit: Dangnabbit

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

What was that!!!!!!?

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

Newton sent out a Team IFI team, an EWCP team, and repped NJ. I guess I'm satisfied with that.

Too bad 11's alliance had to play our friends on 1503 in the semifinals with a crippled robot, it definitely was not the fight 11, 1730, and 2122 wanted to put up, especially after taking down the force that is 148 and 234. I do, however, have to ask 148 what they based their final alliance selection on. I feel they could have easily made a stronger alliance with a different last pick.

Some great matches by 2415 as well, sorry to see you guys take an early exit at the Championships.

But hey, 1503 made it to Einstein and that's all I care about. :)

Re: 2011 Newton Division
 

I actually didn't see the quarterfinal matches as they were right after our matches, but during qualifications 2481 had a fast consistent minibot. In 2481's match with 148 earlier, they pushed tubes towards the rack for 148 to score. We worked with 2481 for a match at Wisconsin and they are a smart, organized team that gets strategy. So, I understand the pick, but I'm not sure if they would have been my top pick at that point.


Although it was an early exit for 1732, I couldn't be happier with how we preformed. Signing up for the Championship 10 days before it started, having only a couple meetings to improve the robot, and only 1 day to practice with our entirely new driveteam (other than field coach), my goal was just to be playing Saturday afternoon, which we did. Thanks again to 1676 for the selection and 2415 for being a great alliance partner. Its rare to be the #2 seed and trying to figure out a way to slow down a stronger scoring #7 alliance, but we gave a good run at it.

Congrats to 217, 1503 and 25 on the Divison title.