Week 1 Stats

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Alexa Stott

The higher seed is always the red alliance. It's not a statistical anomaly; it's a side effect of the way the alliance colours are assigned in elims. Basically all that statistic is is that the higher seed won 5/6 times.

Not true. The red/blue designation in the next round is "inherited" by the winning of the previous round. So if the #8 seed upsets the #1 seed in the quarter, the #8 seed will be red in the semis against the 4/5 seed. Likewise, if the #3 seed happens to face the #7 seed in the semis, the #3 seed is still going to be blue.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by JB987

So 45% of matches had absolutely no minibot scoring? And 32% just one? An important reminder of the value of being able deploy and run any kind of (legal) minibot up the darn pole!

Indeed. At NJ, we found that only 17 of the 62? (27%) teams had successfully deployed at least one minibot al day Friday.

30 points is a LOT in this game, it behooves teams to have a minibot - even a 4 second one - that can deploy.

[Fred Sayre]

How many matches were won by an alliance not deploying a minibot against a team that had a successful minibot?

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Fred Sayre

How many matches were won by an alliance not deploying a minibot against a team that had a successful minibot?

Several matches (sorry, no details) were decided by minibots.

Edit: Looking at FRC-Spy (up top on every page) you can easil see which matches were decided by minibots. One out of 6 or so in NJ.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Several matches (sorry, no details) were decided by minibots.

Minibots are a big deal statistically. At BAE the average winning/losing alliance scores were separated by about 30 points. After running through the numbers for FLR, Kettering, and BAE, a single winning minibot with no tubes scored could've won 75%+ of all qualifying matches.

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

Minibots are a big deal statistically. At BAE the average winning/losing alliance scores were separated by about 30 points. After running through the numbers for FLR, Kettering, and BAE, a single winning minibot with no tubes scored could've won 75%+ of all qualifying matches.

yea, our very first match would have been a 36 to 12 win if the minibot was not deployed early, leading to a match score of 3 to 12. (It's a penalty and a tower disable if you deploy early).

On that note, for week two regionals, make sure you deploy as the color goes solid again, NOT on the Flintstones feet sound (like we did our first match). I have 0 idea why they did that.