top ten best teams in FIRST

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

My top team would be MOE.
When Dean Kamen came up with the concept of FIRST the team he had in mind was MOE. They are a powerful community leader. They have infectious spirit. They are intense about being safe. They are gracious in defeat and victory and they are highly competitive.

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There's a reason 1114 was the 2012 HoF inductee. The only one of your list simbotics (arguably) lacks is infectious spirit, and I think that's mostly because the teams they play with are tired of losing to them.

Filtering the 5 yr average OPR sheet for Canada, theres just 5 teams with 5yrAverage OPR Z-scores over 2 (1114, 2056, 3683, 188, and 1503), and just 14 teams over 1.

1114 and 2056's are over 4.5. 2056 at number 2 with a Z-score of 4.57 is over twice as strong as the #4 team, 188 with a Z-score of 2.25.

The interesting thing I notice flipping through the filters on that spreadsheet, is that the Canadian 100 or so teams, when compared to other groups of 100 or so teams (like FL or WA) is significantly stronger as a whole. The rank where Average Z-score = 0 is about 10% deeper in Canada. It seems the speculated effect of 1114/2056 making the Canadian 2nd tier stronger is true, or at least, its corroborated by this data.