[FRC Blog] "Standard District Points System for 2015"

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Originally Posted by cadandcookies

This is the backend. Yes, teams can look at it, but realistically I'd anticipate most will just be looking at the chart for their event size and not worrying about the math behind it.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Would it have been nice to see at least that points would be based on rank earlier? Yes. But lacking knowledge of the timeline and how much effort went into this, I'm very reluctant to claim FIRST should have done anything differently.

A question for Districts teams: If you had this information at the beginning of the season, would it have changed your strategy for this year's game?

What, you mean like in Frank's Blog on Kickoff Day?

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ct-points-2015

Originally Posted by Frank's Blog

Points assignment for qualification round performance will be based on team rank at the end of qualification rounds, rather than some direct measure of match scores. To earn more points in the system, teams will want to focus on ranking well during events