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Re: Sorting Algorithms as a Tool for Picklisting

The trick with creating a pick list isn't in sorting the teams - it's in giving each of them a numerical value. Find a way to give each team a value, then you can use whatever sorting function you want to order them. The easiest way is to just stick it in excel and let it sort them for you.

Ideally, you'd create multiple lists - using this past list as an example, you might create a list of landfill-bots, a list of human station bots, a list of bots that are good at scoring cans, a list of canburgler bots... Then figure out your strategy and what is going to benefit you the most and pick the top team off that list. Or the top team that represents a combination of two or more of those lists. It can get complicated, but the difficulty isn't in sorting the numbers.
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