Correlation, Causation, and the Isolation of variables in FiM District Structure

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Originally Posted by Madison

At the risk of sounding like a broken record...

If it's not about the robots™, how can examining the success of teams on the field -- at any end of the curve -- be used as an accurate, meaningful metric of the program's success?

Could not agree with you more, but I took this thread to be about outside metrics, measurable, and correlations. (As a side note, I think it is safe to say that Robot performance is only part of "Team" performance this year with some highly effective Human players).

Thinking about it though, there are some things that could be measured.

Some great, "not entirely about the robot" metrics.

7 teams were recognized as District Chairman's award recipients instead of 3 from the regionals before. 3 went on from the State Championship to "The Championship"

A ton of Woody Flower Nominees were recognized at every event (regionals could do this too). I don't know the official count, but I believe it to be on the order of 30 or more mentors that got recognized (it could have been a lot more).
7 - Imagery, Spirit, Rookie Allstars......

These were pretty good "not about the robot" boosts for FiM. While not everything can be measured with Lucite or Medals, many things can be. For those that can't, please talk with those teams. Most that I have talked to really like the additional playing time, and the closer events. The second event was a huge thing to a lot of teams I talked to.