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Originally Posted by gblake
The last N posts in this thread have done little to improve my understanding of the HISTORY of FIRST's championships. Know what I mean....?
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Here is a little History:
Looking at this White paper:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3133
Since 2001, there have been a total of 1608 Elim/Playoff opportunities. There have been 569 unique teams that have participated in playoffs. This is only a little surprising, but it is basically around 10% of all the FRC teams to ever exist.
Of those 241 have only had 1 occurrence. This could be due to a newly formed Powerhouse, or it coould be a 1 and done from 2008. What it does mean is that means that 1367 of 1608 oppotunities have been covered by teams that have had multiple playoffs. This number of teams is (569-241)=328 teams. IE 328 teams cover 1367 of the playoof/Elim opportunities, or about 4 times on average.
The top 100 teams (top 100 according to number of plays in elims) comprise of 775 of 1608 spots. IE, there are 100 FRC teams that basically cover 50% of playoff/elims spots.
As I said before, I would be curious what the similar attendence numbers look like, but as far as being contenders to win worlds, 50% of the spots in contention since 2001 have been covered by about 100 teams*...
Division SF and Finals are even crazier numbers...
*Not saying this number should be larger/smaller/different, just wanting to educate the audience a bit... BTW this is basically your top 3%.
Top 1% (about 31 teams) comprises about 1/5 to 1/3 of each advancing position...