Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 8/30/99 8:19 PM MST
In Reply to: well..... posted by Tom Vanderslice on 8/30/99 8:04 PM MST:
Tom,
Yeah, I never said it was simple
As to what teams are scoring, doubt that the average would change much after several rounds into a tourney (or if it did, it would change pretty gradually).
FIRST could recompute the scores with every match. Recomputing the new average score and the new point totals that all teams have.
As long as teams keep watching the leader board, I think that teams could deal with it.
Most teams leave the point calculations to FIRST anyway, so what difference would it make to a team how complex the FIRST spreadsheet was, as long as it was 'fair'?
All that teams would have to focus on would be the fact that keeping your opponent's score as low as possible is good and that scoring as much as possible is also good.
One thing I fear is that teams would be tempted to slaugher a weak team in order to maximize their points.
Can you imagine the carnage if teams had an even greater incentive to pull teams off the puck!?!? It might have been too brutal to watch.
Joe J.