Repdigit Numbered Teams

[Pavan Dave]

Number in my opinion has nothing to do with it. It has to do with more of a team's foundation and how they stand and their resources as to what number they are.

If you choose any random numbers between 11-2222 I bet that you will see that there are MANY gaps where there were teams and where they no longer exist.

Pavan.

[Madison]

Your assumption is correct, Richard -- 666 was never assigned, as far as I'm aware.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I believe it was, because I remember making jokes about it several years ago.

It was never used.
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...minfo&team=666

[bjimster1]

there's no correlation.

[Richard Wallace]

All successful teams are repdigit numbered, when viewed from the right perspective. This is because any team number can become a repdigit, if it is expressed in base-N. Of course you need to choose the right N.

For example, 931 (base-10) becomes 777 (base-11). Or 111 (base-30).

[Kris Verdeyen]

Interesting....

Despite the statistics lesson; which was fantastic, thanks, Bongle; there might be another reason for a difference in the retention of repdigit teams as opposed to a random team, and that is that the repdigit teams are biased more towards the low numbers - there are 9 from 1-10 (which you neglected, Richard), 9 from 11-100, and 9 from 101 to 1000. This means that, for all teams started after 2000 (team number 200-something), the older a team is, the more likely it is to be a repdigit. In addition, for teams older than that, the earlier in the alphabet a team's sponsor's name is (or was in 2000), the more likely it is to be a repdigit. I'm not sure about backfilling team numbers after teams drop out, but that practice might have happened for a while, and then been abandoned. Anyone with more details care to comment?