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Re: [FRC Blog] Frank Answers Friday: Championship Slots

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Originally Posted by dodar View Post
If 2 teams are on equal standing, why should where they are from set them apart? If a team is from an area that has more "better" teams, why should that hurt their chances of making it?
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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard View Post
Any sort of equal representation system based on region will do this, and that's (I think) an unavoidable problem, albeit a lesser problem compared to how championship slots are currently allocated to regionals.
These are questions I've wondered about during my time in a district. Should districts be equally represented? Even if it means competitive teams from a more competitive district cannot attend?

I've thought a bit about this system, and have an idea for how to change it:
  • The total spots for all district teams is proportional to the total number of district teams
  • Half (or some other fraction) of these spots are distributed based on district team count, just like the current system.
  • For the previous year's Championship, district points (or an adapted version of district points) are calculated for all the district teams (who didn't qualify via waitlist).
  • These points are sums for each district, and sums are added to find a grand total.
  • The remaining slots are allocated based on each district's percentage of the total district points.

This system could potentially work well to adjust for variation of skill between districts. If a district's teams don't fare well at champs, indicating a weaker district, it will send fewer the next year. If a district has many successful teams at champs, it will send more (probably also competitive) teams to champs. The system should adjust itself.

However, it may also get out of balance, over-favoring some districts over time. This could probably be fixed by increasing the fraction of spots awarded based on population to more than one half.

I would run the numbers, but there are many waitlist teams and I don't want to have to figure out manually which teams attended from the waitlist and which ones didn't.
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