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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Why use the average? Why not just the total accumulated points? Every team is scheduled for the same number of matches, so why do we do the (extra) math?
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This is not true, in some events the total number of teams is not divisible by 6, this leads to some teams playing "Surrogate Matches" (rule 5.3.2)
That being said (since the surrogate matches do not count towards the teams qualification average) why not use the total number of points scored? I believe the answer to this is just to have smaller numbers. But this in turn introduces another problem: the average is rounded to
n decimal places. Therefore co-op points, auto points, etc, come into play.