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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/27/2000 8:48 PM MST


In Reply to: Only if one is really mean and want enemies posted by Raul on 1/27/2000 7:53 PM MST:



Raul,

I agree. We should always play to win. Even if losing is potentially in your best interest (at least in terms of the race for Q-point ranking).

One thing the new rule on picking teams being in the pool of potential pickee teams has done is that it will greatly reduce the incentive to NOT make the top 8 (or 16 at the Nationals).

I can tell you that at the Great Lakes regional and again at the Rumble at the Rock, there was a significant fraction of our team who would have rather NOT made it to the top 8/16 so that we could have been picked by a higher seed team. In fact, even I cheered at the Rumble when we thought (mistakenly) that we had been bumped out of the pickers into the pickee group.

With the new rule, I expect teams to be playing to win all the way through the seeding rounds.

My two cents.

Joe J.