World Rankings

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

FIRST has the data, but doesn't publish it. Ed Law does a good job guessing the ambiguous cases using OPR in his scouting spreadsheet, but that's not that great when you get to the 6th, 7th, and 8th seeds with the serpentine. As others said, I used the alliance selection thread, and supplemented with other sources when needed.

I need to make a correction here. As Joe pointed out in my post http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...82&postcount=3 from last year, I do not use the alliance selection results from CD. To me even one error is too many. However it is not true that I guess the alliance selection based on OPR. I cannot image anybody would do that. The spreadsheet make the determination automatically when it is clear. For example if team A as alliance captain 2 pick team B who is alliance captain 8, then we know for sure that team B is #2 pick and the team they pick later in 2nd round is #15 pick. If team A as alliance captain 2 pick team C in first round and team D in second round and team C is not an alliance captain, there is no way to tell which team in an alliance was picked first or second, the program will list the higher ranked one as # 2 or 15 pick, and the lower ranked team as # 15 or 2 pick.

Jim Zondag has been asking FIRST to provide this information for the last few years. It looks like FIRST is finally listening.

Joe, thank you for doing this. Now any region who wants to do what if a certain group of teams is in a district and see the ranking, they can easily do it with your spreadsheet by selecting those teams only.

[Jonathan Ryan]

Team 145 was the 4th overall selection at FLR. Selected by team 48, the 4th seeded Alliance captain. 1126 was the 13th pick, the third pick of the 4th seeded Alliance.