1114 the Statistical Outlier

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

They were considerably better at their first even in 2015 than they were at their first event in 2008. They've never come out of the gate this strong.

I also don't know if this game permits the amount of growth that 1114 showed in 2008, either. At their later regionals, they were outscoring entire alliances by themselves... in autonomous.

I remember seeing in one of Ed's spreadsheets that in 2008, 1114 was something like 5.67 standard deviation above the mean. That number is even crazier if you look at the p-value for it.

While there are always so, so dominant, I would have to agree. They are putting up points that seem to be about the limit of what one robot can do on its own, at least without a major change in the dynamics of the alliance. While they will continue to absolutely crush, other top tier teams will likely catch up to some degree.