[Justin Montois]

Hey everyone,

I just want to give a quick update on how things are going and what direction we're headed.

The website is being updated to display 2 polls on the homepage. One "public" poll, where anyone can vote, and one "Expert Poll of Polls" where we will combine the votes of the experts to rank the Top 25 FRC teams.

Near the bottom of the site, there will be a link that will take you to an area where you can chose to view each experts list individually and view any accompanying articles they wrote to give some insight into their votes.

As far as ranking each individual regional, we think the regional itself will be an adequate measure of ranking the teams present.

We are however excited about the possibility of using the data from both the public and expert polls to provide a Top 10 list for each region.(Northeast, SouthEast, South, Midwest, Northwest, SouthWest.) We chose Top 10 because there may simply not be enough teams voted for to compile a Top 25 for each region. More on the Regional top tens in a later post.

So that's where we are right now. As always, If you have an idea that you think would improve the website or another fun idea to utilize with all the data, please post. Thanks everyone for helping out, Week 1 Regionals are almost here!

-Justin