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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
In 2016, California had 258 teams. Michigan had just a hair over 400 teams. So in actuality, that number is ~65%.
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For those too lazy to read the whole proposal, we project needing 17 district events, plus two championships, in 2018. This estimate is assuming 10% FRC team growth year over year for the next two seasons.
Happy to answer any additional questions.
-Mike
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In case no one reading this knows, If you plan on having 40 team district events, and each team playing at least 2, then the math works out to:
Number of District events = Number of teams expected/20 rounded up to whole integer.
IE 258*1.1=284 expected teams 284/20 = 14.2 thus a minimum of 15 district events plus a championship for a count of 16. The 15 district events would leave 32 open slots for teams to get 3rd plays our out of towners. By doing 16 events, California would increase the convenience factor as well as then have potentially 72 open slots for 3rd plays, though in reality, some venues might be more comfortable at say 36 to 38 which will decrease the available extra slots.
Several years Michigan has had 1 whole events worth of extra slots. This typically helps low resource teams have another option (think both proximity and/or timing) and it helps higher resource teams as they are often the ones signing up for another event to get additional practice/out of bag time.