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Posted by Mike Kulibaba.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional and Johnson and Johnson.

Posted on 1/27/2000 2:38 PM MST


In Reply to: Problem Solved?!?!?! posted by Andy Grady on 1/27/2000 9:33 AM MST:



I think this will make some teams go for a big win cause they know if they do bad they can always drop it, Although losing 45-40 still gets you 40 QP's which will be better then some or most matches. One thing this might effect, if i understand it correctly, is the seeds won't be finalized until the last qualifying match. A team might of gotten 0 one round which when dropped might move them up a few spots in the ranking. I remember First had a TV that showed the rankings which won't really work until everything is caculated. Take this for example:

Team 1- 44 points, 12 pts. 24 pts. 32 pts and 60 pts. total of 172 divide by 5 matches = 34.4 average/round Take out the 12(for their lowest score) and you have 160 divided by 4 and you have an average of 40 QP's per round.

Team 2- 69 points, 0 pts, 42 pts. 30 pts. 24 pts. Total of 165 divided by 5= 33 Take out the 0 and you have 165 divided by 4 and you have 41.25.

On the scoreboard, team 1 would be ahead until they took out all the lowest scored matches and then team 2 would be ahead because they had a better average. if they don't take out the lowest score until the end of the qualifying matches no one will really know where they are ranked until the last match is over. Does this sound realistic or am I totally off base? because it wouldn't be the first time I was totally off base. Good luck to everyone. How is everyone's Robot coming along?

Kuli