Go to Post Go with what you know will work, and try a little less if you are feeling brave. That is my rule of thumb. - sanddrag [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > FIRST > General Forum
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
 
 
Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 2 votes, 5.00 average. Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #8   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 10-01-2013, 16:09
Ian Curtis Ian Curtis is offline
Best Available Data
FRC #1778 (Chill Out!)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Puget Sound
Posts: 2,521
Ian Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond reputeIan Curtis has a reputation beyond repute
Re: [EWCP] Presents TwentyFour -- An FRC Statistics Blog

Quote:
Originally Posted by IKE View Post
Very interesting. This seems to correlate well with the multiple event and the "practice makes perfect" mantra. IE, the more you play, the better you get.

An interesting experiement to observe. Take someone who does not play video games, and give them a game that needs some controller level skill. Say racing. Mario cart is particularly good. Have them keep practicing the same level. You will find a drastically different driver at the end of 1 hour of drive time...
This would be a really interesting experiment at the next Extra Life 24 hour video game a thon. My guess is the trends you see in that sort of experiement would correlate pretty well with amoutn of play time and scoring.
That is actually how I initially phrased the article, that practice is super important since teams get so much better and you don't want to short-change your drivers. Someone pointed out though that perhaps that improvement was coming from good teams getting even better than unpracticed teams improving.

After some cursory glances it looks like the bottom tier does not really improve over the course of the event (low scoring events do not see the same rise the "typical" event sees). Looking at some traditionally stronger regionals you see the "typical" upward trajectory, but I haven't gone through to prove to myself who drives that. I sincerely hope it is the majority of the field, but since scoring is so concentrated in the "elite" tier it is possible for maybe the top 20% or less to drag the event average up by themselves.
__________________
CHILL OUT! | Aero Stability & Control Engineer
Adam Savage's Obsessions (TED Talk) (Part 2)
It is much easier to call someone else a genius than admit to yourself that you are lazy. - Dave Gingery
Reply With Quote
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:02.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi