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Re: top ten best teams in FIRST

The Hall of Fame list does a pretty good job at listing the best "teams," just by nature of their award.

As far as on-field performance (best robot as opposed to best team), it's a much harder question to ask. People's views (mine included) will be heavily influenced by a number of factors including regional bias, age (I can't tell you how good any one robot was before about 2007), experience (I find that I'm more biased towards robots that I've seen in person), the list goes on. There are already different metrics that attempt to answer this question in terms of robot performance (OPR, CCWM, FRC Top 25 ranking, wins, win percentage, regional wins), but the truth is that none of them are perfect. There will always be a robot that had a bad event that lowered their OPR, or a robot that got upset in elims, or a robot that doesn't get enough exposure to be popular, or a robot that is so different from others that it's impossible to compare them.

That being said, I always enjoy having this debate, as discussing robot merit is usually an interesting and informative topic. I just think that there will never be a true answer to the original question.
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Last edited by smistthegreat : 25-01-2013 at 17:17. Reason: changed "team" to "robot"
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