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Originally Posted by Theseusgoats
Hey I'm just not trying to offend either the IN or the MI teams here.
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Ok, fine. Let's switch out MI and IN for MAR and VA... and as we all know, I'm willing to offend everyone. Here is my version of your statement:
Obviously, this is
theoretical as it
assumes that MAR teams are
somehow going to be head and shoulders above all the VA teams at the event.
Yep, pattern is this same. This is nonsense and conjecture and not based on any math, statistics, or actual analysis of the situation.
From my perspective, out of district teams are not likely to exert a considerable force of change on the order. From my admittedly limited knowledge of modeling, systems tend to drift toward equilibrium and given the relative ranking of teams in a district, the force of an out of district team or teams acting on the system is not going to change the ranking of the top teams in the district. It's going to end up the same regardless given that out of district teams cannot play in the DCMP for that district so the relative ranking of teams within the district remains.
I'll happily yield this point if you or someone can show me something more concrete than "maybe/probably/somehow/in theory" it could happen.
EDIT: And I really hope for the sake of this community that most people don't see it as "outside teams come in and rob the proper placed teams of their rightful place in a district" because if they do then FRC is about to become very isolated. In the past few months I've been reminded twice by people in the FRC community that I respect a lot that our worlds have gotten smaller (While trying to organize a multi-state workshop for FRC teams no less). No longer will teams from NC compete regularly against teams from VA and SC.... and that makes me sad and at least a few other people seem to be sad about it too. If we contribute to this isolationist attitude by thinking that somehow outsider teams coming in makes our own teams less competitive then we're headed for some dark times in FRC. We need to be welcoming of these outside teams, not pooping on them because #MFGA and #BuildADistrictWall sounds good.