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number of teams is the problem...
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 3/16/2000 10:29 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: Fully Agree (But I meant something else) posted by Chris on 3/16/2000 6:31 AM MST:



Chris,

I agree with you.

I think that the big equalizer for both improved rank estimation and for getting teams to know which teams have great robots would be to limit the number of teams per competition to under 40.

With almost 70 teams at the Great Lakes Regional, it took a lot to get noticed.

If you have under 40 team per competition, then each team can have 12 qualifying matches. This means that each team partners with 12 teams and plays against 24 teams. That means that a team sees 36 teams during their qualifying matches (assuming no duplicates for simplicity). So, it is much more likely that each team has been on the field with any particular good team (either as a partner or as an opponent). Because of this, teams will have to market themselves less aggressively. More qualifying matches have the additional benefit of improving the ranking because good luck and bad luck have the opportunity to average out.

With 7 qualifying matches for each team and with about 300 teams at the Nationals, it will be very easy of good teams to fall through the cracks. Each team will only play or play against 21 out of 300 teams, about 7% of all teams. Not enough to really know the potential that exists out there.

Is it time to have an invitation only Nationals (similar to the NCAA)? Maybe so.

Joe J.


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