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Re: FRC Top 25- Preseason Ranking
Lets not jump on the negatives on this list too much. I believe the goal here is to make FIRST more similar to sports, and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing (I know others may disagree). The second goal is to have a fun consensus of who our role model teams are; who should my team try to be more like.
The thing about any preseason poll, is that it is a popularity contest and based off of information that we have from previous seasons.
That also brings the point of "how do you measure best team"?
Regardless the discussion, we are unaware any answers until we at least know the competition, and see a few weeks of matches.
The reason there are teams missing is because the "consensus" is based off of the opinions of 6 people, and statistics teaches us that is too small of a sample size to represent the population of opinions of the FIRST community. Each opinion is biased toward local teams.
I don't think anyone can fault that the opinion that these 25 are excellent teams, and if you were to only have a limit of 25, there will always be arguments for those that did not make the list. I would argue for team 359 the Hawaiian kids and 476 the Wildcats from Oklahoma.
How about we steer this conversation in a productive manner. Lets perhaps figure out what conditions would make this idea not a popularity contest.
We all know the top juggernaut teams. If we could figure out which weeks they play, then perhaps a ranking beginning after their first competitions would be okay. The BCS doesn't attempt to rank teams until after at least a 3rd of the way through the season. What other suggestion can we come up with?
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Last edited by Barry Bonzack : 31-12-2008 at 20:08.
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