[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz

Note, I never said that we need to have exactly a 6 week stop build date. I am not stating an opinion on whether or not to MOVE the stop date. I just don't like have NO build date at all, and being allowed to work as much as we want directly on the bot between regionals.

That is sort of a separate issue though. My response was more geared towards promoting FRC with people not familiar with it already.

All I'm saying is that if you did have unlimited access from kickoff through competition season, you could still market it as, an "8 week build season", without much impact on the reaction it elicits from newcomers.

[Taylor]

Teams with a small amount of mentors tend to have a low OPR.
Teams with a small amount of mentors tend to be victims of attrition.
Teams with low OPR tend to be victims of attrition.

Solution: Let's fix the OPR problem by allowing teams more plays and/or unbag time.

Possible result: already thin-stretched mentors get more burnout faster, and the attrition actually increases as fringe teams fall away.*

OPR is a symptom, not the disease.

Perhaps this is an example of a conflation of symptoms at which gblake and others have been hinting.

(And the small number of mentors example is one of a myriad of possible challenges teams face. Please don't take my example as a one-and-only offering.)
(Also please don't take this as an opinion of my being pro- or anti-SBD. I honestly don't know where I stand yet.)

*Paradoxically, by dropping some of the low-performing teams, the 'product' will get better and more media friendly. That's a tangent for another day (and another thread methinks)