Thread: #1 seeded teams
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Re: #1 seeded teams

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Originally Posted by Tim Delles
Also what statistics are you using to show that the number 1 and number 2 seeded teams are really the best at any given regional?
The Law of Large Numbers tells us that the ranking at the end of a sufficient quantity of randomly assigned qualification matches will reflect the robot goodness with high confidence. It's too bad that an actual competition doesn't have anything near the number of matches necessary to make that happen. All we get is a very rough approximation.

Besides, an effective alliance is not just the sum of its component teams. Two or three complementary robots can do better together than two or three nominally "better" robots that don't work with each other as well.