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Originally Posted by AmoryG

For example, in NFL preseason games teams avoid playing their starters and when they are on the field they don't always play at 100% to avoid risking injury.

You don't see teams making many groundbreaking additions or non-critical upkeep on the machines and there likely isn't a lot of scouting either.

However, your example meant to provide contrary evidence of an FRC offseason event being comparable to an NFL preseason game cites something that happens consistently at FRC offseasons: teams don't put in their top drive team for every offseason match of every event they attend.