[petek]

From the "throw a monkey wrench and see what happens dept.":
Has anyone looked to see how much effect surrogate matches have on these rankings? If the number of matches per team determines the matrix size, is the calculation looking to see how many matches a given team actually played? For example, in Philly all teams played 11 matches, but 304 and 381 each played 12: 11 plus one extra surrogate match.

For those not familiar, surrogates are called for to "fill out" the schedule when the number of teams x the number of matches / 6 is not a whole number. Without surrogates there would be some matches with un-filled robot positions. Surrogate match results are not counted in FIRST's ranking scores, and are identified by a "1" next to the team # in the qualifying schedule. This year it is always the third match for a surrogate team.