[Maxwellfire]

The question that was asked about the budget was very specific. It asked about team budgets for the construction of prototypes and the final robot only. It was not about any other team expenses. I should have made that clearer in my explanation. I wanted to see if how much a team allotted to build the robot affected it's success, not their overall budget.

District points would probably have been a much better measure to use. I was originally going to survey all of the teams that went to worlds in person, but that wasn't practical so I switched to just New England. For the world, district points wouldn't have worked.

Also, success for the sake of this paper was based pretty exclusively on robot performance and not other successes of the teams. District points include awards that aren't robot related. It would be interesting to see what results I get using them anyway though. If I have some free time, I will try that and share the results.

What I was doing with the OPR data that spanned that time was trying to see if the correlation between team age and OPR held for many games and not just the 2015 one. All of the graphs that compared survey data to OPR were only based on the 2015 OPR data.

As a side note: since I had data on every award that every team in the world has won, it would have been really cool to try and correlate which awards teams have won with other data about them.

Thanks,
~Max