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Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Other on team Actually, I'm a FIRST-aholic from an undecided team for the year 2000 formerly of Team #126 sponsored by Nypro and Clinton High School.

Posted on 8/29/99 10:05 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Seeding Calculations posted by Jon on 8/29/99 8:40 PM MST:




i'm thinking hard on this one, and not really sure which way to vote for good reason to do with how my team ranked this year..

first, at regionals, we won all 8 of our qualifying matches yet only ranked 5th...after playing 6 matches, we weren't even close to being in the top 8, and it was only after a perfect score and a 432 in our last matches that we made it.. our scores had been all over the board, going as low as 16 points but still winning- we had no real consistency or average score because we weren't consistent with our partners ability to perform.. in the case of taking the average scores.. we probably never would have made the top 8, and hey, we won that regional, chances are that wouldn't have happened

the nationals: get this, we lost, i believe, 3 of our 6 matches (it may have only been four, but i'm pretty sure it was 3- don't quote me) yet we ranked 2nd, and 2nd to TJ2 but not all that much.. there we had a perfect score as well, but the rest of our scores were pretty balanced in the ranges from 100-300... had an average been taken there, i'm sure we still would have made the top 16, maybe not ranked as highly, but our scores were more consistent and it would've been a more fair ranking..

so maybe that's it, the definition of fair.. after driving our robots for 3 years, i feel this year we had the most efficient and consistent robots of any of our past years, little problems and constant performance of what we wanted to do... we were as consistent, scores weren't, and that kind of scoring of seeding at the regionals would've killed us, and at nationals probably put us in an more appropriate seed in regards to the amount of matches we won..who knows..

what's my point? i guess if you change the way you score, maybe something else should be done about the multipler for winning the match..although i liked the idea that you don't have to win every match to rank high, it seems like there could be more of a balance between scores and matches in order to seed teams.. i don't know.. that's what i'm thinking..