Alliance picking

[Alex Pelan]

The current was is fine. The professional sports drafts were designed that way for a reason, as were the Fantasy Sports drafts, and of course, the FIRST draft. Each of them serves a different purpose in attempting to create a fair environment. Professional sports drafts are designed so that the teams that are in last place get top prospects, in hopes that teams will not remain in the bottom of the league for forever. These teams are already at a disadvantage, because if they're in last place, they most likely have had talent/injury problems, so they are given the advantage of improving their team for next year, or at least for the near future. This doesn't work for FIRST because the draft is for this season, not next season, as well as the fact that FIRST's "regular season" does not produce nearly enough definitive results about a robot or a team as the professional sports system does.

The fantasy sports draft was designed to keep everything fair to everyone. As far as the system knows, everyone is equal in talent, so it picks randomly, and essentially everyone, in theory, is able to pick an equal amount of talent from their draft position. This doesn't work because it would render qualifying rounds moot.

The draft system we have right now is fine. FIRST is not professional sports. It was designed that way. We are trying to move away from the system of individual players being drafted and idolized. We are drafting teams here, not individual people.

-Alex Pelan