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Originally Posted by TheFish
So my question is this: for how many years do you guys subsidize your expectations of teams because of how long they have been around?
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Originally Posted by TheFish
It seems that even though, in your opinion, we should theoretically have equal expectations between 6 year teams and 12 year teams... the older teams are still always making Einstein and winning it.
Anybody care to shed light on why?
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Maybe this is lack of 10 years of experience talking, but to me a non-subsidized expectation doesn't imply an Einstein appearance. What I'm saying is, I expect most teams with roughly 4 to at least 12 or so years of experience to preform about the same--average, as the case may be. I'm usually unsurprised to find out their age. I don't subsidize my expectations of them; they're likely to build decent robots, have solid teams, and maybe win a couple awards every few years. But I don't expect to see them hang up blue championship banners either (though I'm happy being pleasantly surprised).
Now, of course, there are a few teams I do expect to stand out in Atlanta every year (and they rarely disappoint). I don't base this on age, but they are by-and-large
more likely to be older than the norm. However, I don't see them as a reason to scrap the 4-5 year mark for at least on-par performance from everyone else; just my $0.02.