Proposed pre-DCMP ranking method, taking account of:
- Winning
- Scoring
- Leadership and Communication
I am calling this metric OPR plus State Points, or OPS. I started with the RoboZone
rankings by Jim Zondag and Dan Kimura, aggregated those two expert lists, and resorted based on OPS, which is the sum of district points earned before DCMP and the team's average OPR. Here is my Michigan Top 25 list as of Week 5:
Code:
SP OPS rank
33 Killer Bees 146 190.72 1
67 The HOT Team 146 189.97 2
3357 COMETS 141 188.02 3
2834 Bionic B'Hawks 145 187.01 4
85 B.O.B 144 185.60 5
3620 Average Joes 125 178.75 6
1023 Bedford Express 139 175.02 7
27 Rush 122 * 172.45 8
2767 Stryke Force 126 168.74 9
3546 Buc'n Gears 125 164.60 10
3534 House of Cards 127 163.16 11
1918 NC Gears 121 162.39 12
2137 TORC 124 162.11 13
1718 Fighting Pi 126 162.08 14
3604 Goon Squad 123 * 161.48 15
5460 Strike Zone 119 156.69 16
4384 Benzene Bots 116 155.29 17
3602 RoboMos 118 151.59 18
3688 Norsemen 107 * 145.99 19
217 ThunderChickens 98 144.60 20
4377 Boyne City Blaze 109 144.33 21
107 R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S. 106 143.71 22
2619 The Charge 103 143.12 23
2054 Tech Vikes 102 142.16 24
494 Martians 107 142.02 25
70 More Martians 107 141.68 26
The OPS metric is not perfect. For example, I think it under-rates Thunderchickens and Tech Vikes*. However, I think it will predict DCMP / CMP performance more accurately than either district points or OPR alone. District points include awards, which I think are a realistic reflection of a team's potential for leadership and communication contribution to alliance success.
I have asterisks in the lines for Rush, Goon Squad, and Norsemen. These teams each have one more FiM event to play in Week 6. I added 50 district points to their present totals, anticipating each team will make the finals at their second event.
Please comment and critique this method of ranking.
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*2771 Code Red is also omitted, because they are not on Dan or Jim's ranking lists (yet), having played their first FiM event in Week 5. I expect they will appear, probably pretty high up, when rankings are recalculated before DCMP.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
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(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)