Problem's with 2015…

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I completely disagree. We just removed some factors from it. A match where you are playing with two toasters is a hard one not to have drop your ranking.

Playing with two "toasters" is always hard to carry. However, unless they are directly interfering with your robot, they should not affect how many points your robot can put out. For example, look at 1114 and other "powerhouse" teams, and compare that to last year.

Last year if you were placed with two "toasters", the other alliance could focus your robot and easily outscore you, resulting in the same amount of QP as the two "toasters".

With this year though, if your two alliance partners can't score, their average scores will show that. Likewise, if you can consistantly put out X amount of points, your average will show for it. For example, two "toasters" get placed with 1114. Sure their average score will get a boost, but because it's only for one match it won't matter in the long term. For 1114 though, even though they didn't score as many points as they could have, they still scored what their robot could put out, so their average won't be dropped that much.

The only robots that are affected by alliance partners are the robots that focus primarily on the RC. They could steal all 4 RC in auto and be able to cap 7 6-stacks, but that doesn't matter if their partners can't make them. That is a risk that I can imagine they took into account when they were designing their robot. Those robots, however, will do very well in high levels of play when their partners can easily spit out 6-stacks.

TL;DR
Average score > Win/Loss
RC bots struggle with Quals, but will kill in Finals.