pic: 2016 Championship Alliance Selection Rates by Qualification Type

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

These are some really neat stats, thank you for sharing!

Thanks! I found it interesting that the 1st picks did better than the captains.

Question: did you pull your data from the FMS API or TBA, and how did you differentiate between waitlist and points teams in districts? As someone who uses the TBA API, I've found this to be problematic.

I took the list of qualified district teams from http://frc-districtrankings.usfirst.org/ and removed all of the teams that had otherwise qualified. Then I took the top X teams (where X is the number of points slots for that district) and called those the district points teams and everybody else was waitlist. There was a pretty clear cut off from when the points spots end. It's a pretty tedious process so I just uploaded the spreadsheet as a whitepaper if you want to use if for something else.

If it's not too much trouble, I'd love to see the breakdown by:

• level of playoffs reached
• captain / first / second / third picks

I think it could be interesting to compare with overall alliance selection rates.

Here's a chart showing where these teams were picked. Some of the group sizes were small and created a noisy graph, so I removed every group that had fewer than 10 teams in it.