The Highest Levels of Play

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Thread Title: Highest Levels of Play
Current Discussion Topic: Strategic Decision Making for "bad" teams.

Andrew is confused.
Andrew hurt himself in his confusion.

Ignoring the whole concept of resigning yourself to mediocrity and how that's bad... the topic is how to predict what high levels of play are going to look like. In essence, we're asking "What Would Beatty Do?" So, discussing what "bad" teams do/should do is pointless.

I agree with you for the most part about this topic being way off base.

However, there is an argument for not caring about seeding highly to compete at the highest levels of play. Let's say you're a low resource team in 2012 who wants to compete with the best. Should you attempt to build a top-tier scorer so you can maybe seed (even though that was NOT an easy thing to do that year), or should you build a wide feeder bot in hopes of being a desirable third robot.

For teams looking to compete at any level, priorities could be different than yours or mine.