Correlation between driving skill and practice field availability

[EricH]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

I've been doing some research, and found out that a lot (not all) of the real successful teams in FIRST have a large area to practice in, or at least enough room for a practice field. Does anyone think these two could be related? If so, I'm hoping to use it as a fact for a presentation given to my school about why we need a bigger room to practice in (It's currently tiny).

Yes. I know that one of the top drivers in FRC (in his day--he's graduated) wore multiple sets of wheels out practicing during his career. You don't need a full practice field, per se, but a 1/2-length or 1/3 width could do the work very well (depending on the year), and anything larger would be simply extra room to get other robots out there with you.