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Re: FRC Blogged - What Do You Think? The ‘Invite to Decline’ Strategy
I've seen this happen, and remember at least one time on the receiving end of a definite strategic play.
The easiest solution is to try to make the rankings accurately affect how good a team actually is. So if a, say, #2 team tries to pick #4, #2 is actually better than #4 and #4 will just accept.
The easiest way is to do that play more qualification matches so the randomness of random partners (on both sides) has less effect on the rankings, and keep the primary sorting based on metrics that actually reflect how good a team is (win/loss/tie does this, auton points is a good secondary, the coopertition bonus from 2012 was really bad for this).
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