Thread: (Seemingly) Irrational alliance selection decisions?
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Re: (Seemingly) Irrational alliance selection decisions?
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Originally Posted by TheBoulderite View Post
Another seemingly irrational alliance selection this year was when 1425 selected 1538 on Hopper. Don't get me wrong, 1538 is a good team, but they could have gone with a team like 971, 1323, 4334, or 4587. Anyone from 1425 want to chime in and tell me why you made the choice to go with the Cows? I'm not saying it's the wrong choice, I'm just curious.
As mentioned, 1425 was declined by 971. 1538 had shown flashes of brilliance, so to have a good chance at advancing 1425 need 1538 to become consistent at that level. Unfortunately for them, it didn't happen. This year the rest of the draft pretty much went to form in our division with no real surprises.

We were the beneficiaries in 2013, 2014 and 2015 of seemingly irrational picking at champs. We had gamed out the scenarios in 2013, and even anticipated the declinations. In the end, the other teams should have looked at where us and 1983 (#2 seed), and then a rookie in #3 and realized that the field was going to get scorched no matter what. In 2014, we had a heated debate about whether to pick 1114 or 971, and then no one picked 971. We were shocked. In both years we were very fortunate to have 872 and 1641 available for 2nd picks.

In 2015, it looked like we got 1671 due to oversight, but in fact the other alliances were making selections to match their overall alliance. Maybe they should have rethought their strategies, but what they did was rational.

In general our 2nd pick comes from between 10th and 16th on our pick list of 24, but we've gotten as high at 6th a couple of times and that's when we go "huh"?

We've seen some real problems at regionals, so I watch for inexperienced teams that might end up at alliance captains and help them with their draft lists if they need it. As SVR this year, I told 5700 that they were going to be an alliance captain--they had no clue. We found them another another more experienced team to develop their draft list. I don't want to see a team looking at the ranking board trying to figure out their next pick.
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