[Coach Doug]

You're correct - an FRC team can pick anyone during alliance selection. My FRC model comment really only applies to the first two items.

My recommendation on limiting the alliance selection pool is more of a reward to the teams who finished in top 8 or 12 vs. finishing 5th as an example and watching the 47th team get picked to move on to the playoffs. Again, with the current set up you could be 5th due to no control on your effort - lets say you played against teams with only one working robot so therefore your RP is lower.