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Re: [EWCP] Presents TwentyFour -- An FRC Statistics Blog

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Very interesting. This seems to correlate well with the multiple event and the "practice makes perfect" mantra. IE, the more you play, the better you get.

An interesting experiement to observe. Take someone who does not play video games, and give them a game that needs some controller level skill. Say racing. Mario cart is particularly good. Have them keep practicing the same level. You will find a drastically different driver at the end of 1 hour of drive time...
This would be a really interesting experiment at the next Extra Life 24 hour video game a thon. My guess is the trends you see in that sort of experiement would correlate pretty well with amoutn of play time and scoring.
That is actually how I initially phrased the article, that practice is super important since teams get so much better and you don't want to short-change your drivers. Someone pointed out though that perhaps that improvement was coming from good teams getting even better than unpracticed teams improving.

After some cursory glances it looks like the bottom tier does not really improve over the course of the event (low scoring events do not see the same rise the "typical" event sees). Looking at some traditionally stronger regionals you see the "typical" upward trajectory, but I haven't gone through to prove to myself who drives that. I sincerely hope it is the majority of the field, but since scoring is so concentrated in the "elite" tier it is possible for maybe the top 20% or less to drag the event average up by themselves.
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