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Originally Posted by Billfred

If you ask me, I think the best way to go about it would be to go by QPs, then the average QPs of your opponents over the qualifying rounds. If you're beating other highly-seeded teams, which are usually harder opponents, you'll do better than if you're beating teams that are 0-8. Furthermore, it encourages teams to do everything they can to help the very teams they'll be going against--you want your opponents to win every match (except the ones you're in, naturally).

If FIRST ever wants a system that factors in the difficulty of your opponents, like this, then you can copy many of the sports ranking systems.

Arizona Football does a "power-point" system for seeding, with your team receiving 50 points for every win and 5 points for each of your opponent's wins. You divide all the points from your wins by the total games you played.

They play a 10 game schedule, and the theory behind the system is that beating a team with no wins (resulting in 50 points for your win) should be equivalent to losing to an undefeated team (resulting in 50 points for their 10 wins).

There are huge flaws in applying this to a system with multiple team alliances and opponents though, and I think I've figured out a system but am not sure of how accurate it would really be.