[Allison K]

What effect will a low match count have on the integrity of the rankings? Are there any statisticians in the crowd that can run quantitative data showing the relationship between number of seeding matches and accuracy of rankings?

Five matches seems a bit on the low side for accurate ranking. Though running extra practice matches is better than nothing I suppose.

If the issue is event consistency vs. event quality my opinion would be that inconsistent numbers of matches between events is the lesser evil compared to artificiality limiting all events.

Allison

Edit: I recall within the past year or two a post in an FRC thread showing the difference in noise in the rankings at 6 vs. 8 vs. 10 vs. 12 matches. It may have been one of the district vs. regional discussions? Anyway, tried to search but it's lost to me at the moment.