FRCTop25.com- Submit Your Picks for Week 1!

[remulasce]

Originally Posted by 340x4xLife

Woohoo! I cannot wait to start seeing the lists come in.

Just so there is no confusion, Each week will NOT be an isolated list of only that weeks teams. Once a team has competed, it can be included in your list from then on. IE in your week 2 list, teams that competed week 1 can still be included.

I think this unfairly benefits early week competitors. Take, for example, a pretty good robot in week one. They obviously are better than the rest in week one, so are rated highly. In week two, they don't compete, but they still are better than average and thus are rated highly. By week six, they have gotten five weeks of good reviews, when another team shows up with a demigod as a robot, and their drivers have the force. They are ranked really highly, and the week one teams is ranked a lot lower now that people have seen the demigod, but the week one team has been ranked highly by more people, so in total rankings, they win.

TLDR; you can't keep the voting window open longer for some teams than other teams, and you can't vote until you see all the teams.

[Mike Starke]

These are all great concerns! Thank you so much for all of your feedback! Please remember, we have a secret list of "experts" who will also be voting. So you can decide which list you think will be accurate; between the public poll and the expert poll. Our experts know that they need to go through each regional and spend a lot of time sorting through data and teams. On some of their submissions you will also see why they voted why they did. It's in my opinion that regional biases (the reason why no NJ teams made that one list) will get balanced out by the number of voters that we will have. Some one may heavily weight Alamo, while someone will heavily weight FLR. So i think it will be well rounded by the end. We have over 20 submissions so far, with just being open for about a day. We'll see how it goes.

And please remember, this is just for fun.

[Justin Montois]

I'm going to echo what Mike said in that this is just for fun! Are some people going to vote based on little to no knowledge? Yes. Are people going to disagree with the eventual week 1 top 25? Yes. Just try to have fun with this and if you want to disagree with someone's list then feel free to submit your own list.

We fully expected this and will enjoy reading the discussion.

Also, if you feel as though you don't have enough knowledge to fill out 25 teams out of the over 200 teams that competed week 1 then your more then welcome to either do some more research to become more informed (looking at OPR would be a great place to start) or you could hold off and vote next week.

Thank you all for your feedback and participation.