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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
My point of making this thread was to say that although people and teams think they are making decision based only on how teams preform on the field, their views and opinions on teams are subconsiously altered or slanted by psychological phenoma such as primacy effect, schemas and confirmation bias, started here on CD.
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
i go to another website like chiefdelphi (same vBulletin forum setup)and they call the affects caused by their forums the SD effect so i thought i should name this the SD affect.
i remember we did this once in 2005, we picked 343 at the Florida regional, just because we had fun with them the year before at the palmetto regional. fyi: that website is www.SlickDeals.net ... now you guys know where the SD came from. |
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
I'll say it right now, I have put teams lower on a selection list (or taken off completely) because based on how they act on CD, I think that they are too cocky to trust them, or that they are too argumentative to want to work with them. If someone is really cocky on CD, especially if they list themselves as driver, that makes me afraid to pick them because I don't know if they'll change on the field because they think their robot is unbeatable and want to do their own thing.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, but I'll say for sure, I've done that in the past... |
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
As the scouting officer for my team, I can tell you that the preconceived information I read on CD does affect my view towards teams in competition a little bit. But I can tell you that when we have the scouting meeting Friday night and we make our lists, I am objective. Plus I can tell you that most of the kids on the team aren't on CD a lot and don't really know about other teams coming to the comp. We go purely by the data we get in the competition and the feedback we get from the kids who are scouting. So no CD does not affect how we pick robots.
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
Yes, many teams who do not have great scouting make picking decisions based off a teams history or their relationship with that team. Its happened to us, last year at GTR we played both our morning matches on Saturday with 1334. In the first match we played well together and with bot of us scoring it was an easy win, then in our second match our arm broke seconds before the match started, so we played defense against 188 and kept them to one tube while we let 1334 score and win the match for us. 1334 ended up with the second or third seed (after 2056 picked 1114), and even though we were a good scoring bot I wouldn't have picked us with the second pick (probably 854). So yes teams that are better known or have a good working relationship with the picking team can have alot to do with selections.
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
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Re: Does CD affect alliance selections?
There are a lot of great teams that aren't on CD much if at all. Don't forget about them!
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