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Originally Posted by IndySam
I love Mike and Justin's show but until people take their voting more seriously the ranking will continue to be a joke.
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That is a pretty strong statement. I took my voting very serious and had 48 at #12. I would say,
in my opinion, they could have gone anywhere between 10&15. (which puts them in the top 1% of FRC teams that have played i.e. of 100 random teams, they would likely be #1 or #2).
I was glad to see that 842, 2169, and 2826 at least got honorable mentions as I felt they were easily top 20, and possibly top 15 material (roughly where I had them). 1918 also got a nod putting them in that between 25&30 limbo spot which is right around where I would put them. If I didn't have so many Michigan teams already in my list, they would have likely gotten in (67, 469, 1023, and 548).
I was suprised to see 1477 so low. In my opinion, the 2 wins, against the competition they saw deserved at a minimum a top 15 slot.
118, 111, 33, and 71 should have been ranked lower in my opinion based off of the performances I have seen from those teams. I can understand why folks have them in their top 25 (obviously 33 was not in mine), but I think folks were voting more on potential this time than actual performance. I would have preferred for this crew to have rounded out the 20-25 slots.
While this might seem like a fair amount of discrepancy, keep in mind, almost 2,000 teams have played so far. Many of the top teams have played 2 times. Top 25 is essentially the top 1%. Statistically speaking, you are not likely to see one of these teams at a 40 team regional. In fact if you go to 2 40 team regionals, there is a reasonable chance you have not seen a top 1% team. 5 positions out of 2,000 is a 0.25% error.