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Originally Posted by Matt Reiland
One advantage that vetern teams DO have is their lower number and their team history. I have been at many a regional where a Big Name team didn't have the strongest robot of the litter but they were picked based on reasons other than that particular years robot performance. Sometimes it is the experience under pressure, sometimes it is the way they sell themselves, it could have even been that it was an incredibly robust machine and went out for every single match. Either way you don't have to have the #1 seed robot to be on the winning team, you may even have the worst robot at the regional (Based on the qualifying match scores) especially this year when you see some of these matches go so lopsided when the right robots are out there together against and unevenly matched oponent.
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This argument only supports the reason for a new algorithm. The less teams one is exposed to, the less quality information he is likely to have, the more likely he is to revert to picking a low-numbered team. Hence, we should revert to a random algorithm, that will let each team compete with and against more teams.
-Guy
EDIT: Results from the inference I ran on last year's regionals results are coming tomorrow. I promise
