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Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 5/6/99 7:55 PM MST


In Reply to: Not ready...yet. posted by Daniel on 5/6/99 8:04 AM MST:



Okay, how about these (not always fair) suggestions for making it more fair for teams that go to more or less than 1 regional:

Give every team a starting Qualifying Point (QP) total equal to 6 times their average from all the regionals they attended of their average QP/match for each regional. Teams that go to no regionals get 6 times the average from all the regionals of the average QM/match.

For example, if a team scored 100 QP/Match at Chicago, 300 QP/Match in Philly, and 400 QP/match in Ypsi, then they would start the Nationals with 1200 QP (or 200 QP/Match). NOTE: ((100+200+300)/3)*6 = 1200

Further if
CA average QP/Match = 101,
IL average QP/Match = 99,
FL average QP/Match = 105,
PA average QP/Match = 95,
CT average QP/Match = 150,
NJ average QP/Match = 75,
MI average QP/Match = 75,

Then every team that went to no regionals would get 600 QP at the start of the nationals (or 100 QP/Match). NOTE: ((101+99+105+95+150+75+75)/7)*6 = 600

Assuming 6 QM's at the Nationals, then a team's average QP/match for the Nationals would then be weighted of 1/2 from the Qualifying Matches at the Nationals and 1/2 from Qualifying Matches from the Regionals (except for the no regional teams which 1/2 get an unfair lift and 1/2 get an unfair drag, life's not fair ;-)

Continuing with the example above if the team that went to the 3 regionals was paired with at team that went to no regionals and they won with 300 points, then their new QP/Match would be 300 and 214 respectively. NOTE: (1200+3*300)/7 = 300, (600+3*300)/7= 214

The actual QP/match would probably have to be normalized themselves to take out differences in scoring from regional to regional, but that is only a minor detail.

By doing this, everyone's QM's at the Nationals would be worth the same in terms of how much a particular bad or good match moved a teams QP/match, but some of the information gained from the regional would be incorporated into the National performance.

Itis a bit complicated to explain, but I don't think that it would be any trouble to implement and I think that it is a way to address some of the concerns folks have bought up.

What do you think?

Joe J.