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Originally Posted by Katy
I'm not excited by the concept of a new ranking system. This is because many of the better teams design their robots to do well on Saturday afternoon and not during the seeding matches. If a team is confident they will be picked for elimination matches (good reputation or good design for elimination matches) they will care less about seeding standings. When different gameplay styles reward different behaviors, and only one of the gameplays styles have an outcome that "really matters," then standings within the other may become a little more randomized. This is rough on teams paired with the teams who only care about elimination matches, for similar but more subtle variants of the same situations which caused the rules to be changed to permit super-alliances.
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This struck me too, I was curious what the rankings would have looked like last year should the new rankings system be applied.
It certainly was interesting to see teams that performed poorly (ie, no wins) in the top 8. Worries me a little. Now, disclaimers. This data is only as accurate as the FRCFMS Twitter feed. We are comparing apples and oranges, last years game played different than this game will likely play and was (I am assuming) higher scoring. The only thing this data shows is that it is a MAJOR change.