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Re: Suggestion to improve the alliance choosing program

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Originally Posted by Kimberly View Post
What I am NOT saying is rookies are worse than experienced teams.

What I AM saying is rookies are less experienced than experienced teams.
I see what you are saying in general, but Im not sure this would work for long, or even in a lot of cases. As FIRST grows and has now been around since 1992, there are more and more teams being started with mentoring teams, more rookie teams attending preseason events, more rookie teams being founded by FIRST college graduates or past FIRSTers that have moved, so the level of the rookie teams has drastically increased from years ago. There are also more and more rookies going to multiple events, at which point they may have enough experience to perform more like a veteran team. The other factor is there are many older teams that go through upheaval, and either loose sponsorship for a year, come back into being, or just have a complete switch of students and/or mentors. At any of these points, the lower number team may "act" like a rookie, and in some of the ones I mentioned earlier, the rookie team may "act" like a veteran. The year that our team was a rookie team, I was amazed with how much the rookies in our area had done and how much they appeared like veteran teams, especially on the field.

While I understand what you mean, especially in certain regions, I dont think this would work as well overall, based on what we have seen with past match algorithms based on number, and the level of many of the rookie teams these days.
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