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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
FIRST has no valid way of ranking teams, and thus the only fair way to do selections is randomly. Factoring age or some arbitrary rank will never be fair.
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Agreed--there will always be really great rookies and really awful veterans, and there are teams that reach Einstein one year that fall off the radar entirely the next. No formula accounting past years' performances will account for student and mentor turnover perfectly.
However, one could certainly compute rank for within the season, especially at the Region Championship and Championship levels where everyone has played this game before.
Edit: Dave got in between my reading and my posting. I'm not advocating for those two to be anywhere before line D in this year's criteria (read: just ahead of equal red/blue assignments), if anywhere. I'd definitely want to see some sample outputs before I put my blessing on any such method.