[FUN] FRC Top 40 Week 2 and Rant About Replays

[Tyler Olds]

Originally Posted by Boltman

I disagree I'll put 5817 on any of the three lists they have listed in OP... over some of the more popular teams. They are definitely a top 40 in world team this year (through week 2) . I have zero doubt of that seeing them in action. (Cycle times, swerve , deadly OW shot)

So its not really a top 40 is it? When it seems required to "do well consistently" which has nothing to do with this year..so it is a popularity team #'s you remember list that no one can realistically fill out accurately for the current year.

Not 5817's fault no one really knows about them yet nationwide for a poll

Should be "Top 40 historic teams you remember from previous years doing OK this year list"

Yes previous wins deems success but discounts newer rookie teams doing well in current year so take any top 40 with a grain of salt.

BTW congrats 2485 love your designs a well deserved engineering award this season, enjoy the worlds.

I going to be honest and say straight up that it seems that there is no way that your opinion will be swayed and that's okay. You are correct like practically any other poll there is information bias and margin of error.

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With that said one of the reasons we brought back the 'expert' poll to help balance the geographic inconsistancues. Does this cover 100%? Absolutely not but it does help balance this.

I certainly hoped that you voted and filled out the sheet correctly. Some people do just like 5-10 teams and then put in fake teams or try to manipulate the system in other ways. We catch 95% of it and have a program set up to do so and then I personally manually check it after.

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