FRC Blogged-Standard District Point Structure

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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

First don't call this a ranking system if it's a actually a qualificationsystem. And don't post world "rankings" of they aren't intended to be so.
That said the current scoring will not give you enough differentiation. And you haven't thought through the incentives enough. Thinking about incentives is my day job. Again it's the elimination round where the action is. Qualifications is the prelude.
Best as I can tell most of the discussion has been about awards not competition.

You do realize that a good deal of very smart people who have been in FIRST in some cases since the beginning came up with and probably argued all of you points in the process of inventing the district ranking system, right? There's a thread from this fall that I can't find right now because I'm on mobile that goes into a lot of depth on the changes and adjustments made to ranking teams in Districts.

And it is a ranking system, it's just a ranking system designed for the middle of the bell curve more than the edges. Which is how it needs to be. I'm not sure how much you've read on districts and the logic that has gone into creating and running the involved systems, but it might be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the underlying logic a bit more before you start accusing people of not having thought things through enough.

That being said, I do applaud you for actually coming up with some possible changes instead of just complaining (even if I disagree with your proposals).