Analysis of team ranking

[MikLast]

so is this just if all teams were at the DC regional based on their score?

It would put us in the top 30% of teams...

[dakaufma]

Originally Posted by MikLast

so is this just if all teams were at the DC regional based on their score?

No, not quite, this is a slightly different computation. I'm trying to answer the question "how much value does each robot contribute to its alliance?"

In most (qualification) matches robots operate reasonably independently from one another. This makes my question a lot easier to answer -- if robots don't influence each other's performance, then each robot should contribute (on average) the same score to any alliance it plays with. So I've got one variable per team -- how many points it contributes to its alliance -- and I'm trying to solve for the set of values for these variables that comes closest to predicting the actual match scores.

The listing above is my estimate of how many points each robot contributes to its alliance (given no interaction with other robots)

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by dakaufma

No, not quite, this is a slightly different computation. I'm trying to answer the question "how much value does each robot contribute to its alliance?"

In most (qualification) matches robots operate reasonably independently from one another. This makes my question a lot easier to answer -- if robots don't influence each other's performance, then each robot should contribute (on average) the same score to any alliance it plays with. So I've got one variable per team -- how many points it contributes to its alliance -- and I'm trying to solve for the set of values for these variables that comes closest to predicting the actual match scores.

The listing above is my estimate of how many points each robot contributes to its alliance (given no interaction with other robots)

I understand that, then this just means that the teams at the DC regional were skewed, or something else?

My script basically ran instantly on the DC regional alone, it just didn't scale well.

[dakaufma]

I haven't done any in-depth analysis, but DC doesn't look too far out of line from the set of all regionals.

@MikLast I think I misinterpreted what you were saying. This would be a reasonable estimate of how well teams would do if each team played this game without an alliance. So congrats if you team is in the top 30%, you have a good robot

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by dakaufma

@MikLast I think I misinterpreted what you were saying. This would be a reasonable estimate of how well teams would do if each team played this game without an alliance. So congrats if you team is in the top 30%, you have a good robot

Ah, i misunderstood you also then. Thank you for clarifying, and i cant wait to show my team this next week.