[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

The interesting thing this year is that there are a lot of "top-tier" robots that have slightly different qualities, meaning that the "best" robots can vary a fair bit depending upon what features are most valued by the beholder.

The corollary to this is what might be the #1 pick for Team X may be lower on the "pick list" of Team Y, and different than Team Z, etc.

Another way to think about it in practical terms is that if 1058 were the #1 seed, they might have a different first pick than if 319 were the #1 seed or 238 were the #1 seed, or ....

In any case, recusing our own team (1519) from the list above, the team I would choose to replace us is 166, who has an excellent high goal shooter when their vision targeting is working correctly -- their #2 seeding at Pine Tree was a result of good consistent shooting in qualification rounds.

So, in numerical order (since it is hard to rank within the teams below, depending upon what one favors for robot qualities...)

NH:
166
238
319
1058
5813

Agreed that 166 is right there with my top 5, and could easily move in after DCMP and CMP. My order was purely based off of competition results, since as you said it's hard to rank teams with very different skill sets.