Posted by Tom Vanderslice.
Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 8/30/99 8:04 PM MST
In Reply to: statistical bonus points posted by Joe Johnson on 8/30/99 7:33 PM MST:
#1 Now this is what i like to see...a truly SIMPLE scoring system..
no..really..i like it...its got lots of good ideas....but.....
#2 it's nice and easy to look back and say...ok...the average at nationals was 112.3 pts with a standard deviation of
34.2 pts....and start calculating away...but...lets rewind...we're sitting at nationals....you just completed your first match
and you won 112-36...you say great...we got....uhh...uhmmm...well...i guess we won't know how many qp's till the end of
all the matches on saturday...great...we have no idea where we rank among all teams...none at all...
i'd also like to repeat your request for a spreadsheet with allt he scores from nationals in it...heck...even if its not in a
spreadsheet...just anyone with all the scores..i tried to get them right after nationals and no one seemed to respond...
but if we had that we could do all kinds of possible scoring systems and see what teams come up where, etc...wanna
talk about some real math fun..
my two cents
Tom