[BB]: FIRST Choice

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

My guess is a limited fixed number of items. Probably more fair that way.

But at the same time, there's a big difference between getting a $30 plaction wheel versus a $350 shifting transmission. Having a fixed dollar amount you could get would allow teams to get what they really need, instead of the really expensive items that they'll "probably use this season, so we should get it now cause it's expensive". If you have a fixed item amount, I can almost guarantee that demand will increase proportionally to item cost... cheap items will have very low demand, expensive ones very high (and thus shortages so not everyone can get what they want). With a fixed dollar amount, the demand would even out a bit more... although you'd probably still see more expensive items with higher demand, due to the psychology of "free money".

The challenge would come in with setting the dollar limit to a reasonable amount. Hypothetically, as a team, if we could get two shifting transmissions, that would be awesome. But if the dollar limit is less than that, we would be stuck getting one for free and buying one later. Of course, that's just the best example I could come up with... who knows what will actually be available, or what the actual price of items would be if they weren't free.