[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by JABianchi

When the amount of time is limited, there is much more variance in a competition.

While I agree that greater time periods tend to minimize variance, your next statement really doesn't seem to hold water.

This is why the NFL is the most equitable pro sports league in North America.

Here was an article I found which pretty decisively shows that MLB has far more variance than the NFL:
http://harvardsportsanalysis.org/201...he-postseason/




I'm not sure about this claim though:

In any given FRC season, with a limited build season, even a struggling, under-resourced team can have a shot against some of the best teams. Please don't change that."

I guess I would have to better understand how you define "a shot against" to assess the validity of this statement. If you mean captaining the winning Einstein alliance, you are probably incorrect. If you mean captaining a regional winning alliance, you are also probably incorrect. If you mean any given qualification match, where the under-resourced team happened to get decent-ish partners and the "better team" has below-average partners, you are probably correct.

I can crunch some numbers for you if you want to make a more quantifiable hypothesis.