Thread: Open Challenge: Make a better FRC ranking algorithm
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Re: Open Challenge: Make a better FRC ranking algorithm
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
have you ever been on a team, or worked with a team that had six HS students and only one teacher for a mentor? A team that had nothing but a couple handtools, and ended up building their robot out of PVC pipes and plywood?
Yes.
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Do they have any chance against teams with $100k in funding, an huge corporate sponsor, and ten engineer mentors? Seriously? No. At best they end up trying not to be in the bottom 5 of the ranking at a regional.
If you call the #4 alliance captain at the NJ regional "in the bottom 5," then yes.

Maybe the big powerhouse teams are inspiration to everyone?! I know I sure was motivated to do better after seeing 45, 217, 111, and 25 in 2003 at nationals. Would that have happened with the communist ranking system? No.