Overview and Analysis of FIRST Stats

[jtrv]

hi all,

i'm not nearly on your level of mathematics, as i'm only about to graduate high school. but for my final project of my AP statistics class, i did a study on FRC playoff performances by alliances ranked 1-8.

there are a lot of problems with my study and i'm not afraid to admit it in terms of hypothesis testing and whatnot, so i'll just provide some statistics that i found interesting. if anyone wants the python script i used to download the data i can provide it.

The #1 seed alliances won 71% of regionals, districts, and district championships this year (so it does not include world champ data nor exhibition data).

The #1 seed alliances failed to advance past quarterfinals in just 4 of 109 events.

For the second place alliance, the #1 and #2 seeds made up 54% of those. This does not account for which alliance finished first.

The #8 alliances did not win a single event. Also, the #8 alliances made it to finals only 4 times.

The #7 alliance won a single event (Finger Lakes / NYRO). The #7 alliances finished second place only twice.

The #3, #4, #5, and #6 seeds were victorious in 5, 2, 4, and 5 events overall, respectively.

Thus, the #1 and #2 alliances contributed to 84.4% of event victories.

The mean points per game for all 8 alliances (total number of points worldwide divided by total number of games worldwide) were:

145, 108, 90, 80, 75, 75, 70, 60. (these are rough numbers as i'm reading them off a png image and i'm too lazy to download the excel file again, heres some more stats on points per game overall: https://i.imgur.com/dgIYLrQ.png )

some interesting stuff i guess. I'd be interested to do more with OPR/CCWM/CPR/EPR and whatnot once I get more experience with maths. might be a little bit though