Team update 3

[engunneer]

shows in the combined update link.
https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...s-combined.pdf

major points:
SEWN added to rope definition. should end the velcro controversy once and for all.
Drawing corrections
the link to Q126 in thte notes should point here instead: https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/qa/126

edit: the single update 03 pdf is posted, but the main documents page still is linking to update 2.

[Chris is me]

Not too much here, mostly little changes.

Ranking Score, the total number of Ranking Points earned by a Team throughout their Qualification MATCHES divided by the number of MATCHES they’ve been scheduled to play (minus any surrogate MATCH)

I always preferred when it was a sum and not an average. This makes it much harder to figure out how many ranking points you need to get in a match to jump up to a certain seed, in exchange for making seeding more accurate throughout the competition. Probably for the best, just an observation.

[Poseidon5817]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Not too much here, mostly little changes.



I always preferred when it was a sum and not an average. This makes it much harder to figure out how many ranking points you need to get in a match to jump up to a certain seed, in exchange for making seeding more accurate throughout the competition. Probably for the best, just an observation.

It seems to me like the ranking board will show both ranking points and ranking score. Ranking score will be nice because it will show you your (real) rank.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Not too much here, mostly little changes.



I always preferred when it was a sum and not an average. This makes it much harder to figure out how many ranking points you need to get in a match to jump up to a certain seed, in exchange for making seeding more accurate throughout the competition. Probably for the best, just an observation.

Does that mean the best RS average is 4.0?

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Does that mean the best RS average is 4.0?

Yep. But it's like a GPA. Just keeps going down

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Does that mean the best RS average is 4.0?

Originally Posted by TDav540

Yep. But it's like a GPA. Just keeps going down

And I'm expecting several teams to be in the Square Root Club.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Yep. But it's like a GPA. Just keeps going down

Unless you're in high school, where the point of AP classes is to pad a GPA with a max of 4.25, or some such nonsense.

[TJP123]

Biggest update:

It looks like RP will now be avg RP per match, which just makes too much sense.

[Big-b]

The advantage to having the RP be an average instead of a sum is that it makes it so teams don't jump up and down depending on how many matches they have, giving a better understanding of the ranking of teams during an event.

[mypie4050]

Originally Posted by TJP123

Biggest update:

It looks like RP will now be avg RP per match, which just makes too much sense.

This wasn't actually a change to the game manual - It already stated that teams would be sorted by avg ranking points this year. The update clarified the non-influence of surrogate matches towards the RP avg.

[TJP123]

Originally Posted by mypie4050

This wasn't actually a change to the game manual - It already stated that teams would be sorted by avg ranking points this year. The update clarified the non-influence of surrogate matches towards the RP avg.

Ah. Good catch.

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

How would a gear ever find itself behind the alliance's wall??? All additional gears start by the loading station (on the opposite side of the field).

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man

How would a gear ever find itself behind the alliance's wall??? All additional gears start by the loading station (on the opposite side of the field).

If the human player moves a gear from the loading lane to the alliance station for the opposite alliance, it becomes the property of the other alliance. All that's separating these is a piece of tape, so that's not too hard of a scenario to imagine.

[AlexD744]

Average Ranking Points! This would've saved 2 minutes of every list making meeting on friday nights of regionals.

[Eric Scheuing]

Is everybody overlooking the fact that you can rope material can be SEWN?!