World Rankings

[Joe Ross]

I used the First in Michigan point system to calculate rankings for each of the 75 regionals and combine them into a world ranking. See the attached spreadsheet.

Here's the scoring system, from the FiM Rules Supplement

POINT CATEGORY POINTS 					POINTS 		
Win-Loss Record in Qualifying Rounds 							
Win 							2
Tie 							1
Final Alliance Captains After Picking 							
#1 Alliance Captain 					16		
#2 Alliance Captain 					15		
#3 Alliance Captain down to #8 Alliance Captain 	14 down to 9 		
Draft Order by Acceptance 							
#1 Draft Pick (Accepted) 				16			
#2 Draft Pick (Accepted) 				15			
#3Draft Pick down to #16 Draft Pick 			14 down to 1 				
Elimination Round Performance 							
Winning Alliance Teams: 							
Alliance Captain and First Pick				30			
Second Pick						24	
Finalist Alliance Teams: 							
Alliance Captain and First Pick				20			
Second Pick						16	
Semi Finalist Alliance Teams: 							
Alliance Captain and First Pick				10			
Second Pick						8	
Awards 							
Industrial Design 					5		
Quality 						5	
Excellence in Engineering 				5			
Innovation in Control 					5		
Creativity 						5	
Entrepreneurship 					5		
Team Spirit 						2	
Gracious Professionalism 				2			
Imagery 						2	
Highest Rookie Seed 					2		
Industrial Safety 					2		
Judges Award 						2	
Rookie Inspiration 					2

Like FiM, I only counted a team's first two events. However, since a majority of teams only play one event, I did not want to overly punish a team for only playing one event, and multiplied their point values by 2 (which assumes they would have done just as well at a second event). Additionally, in Michigan, everyone plays 12 matches per event. However, at other regionals, teams play as few as 8 matches. Since teams earn points for Wins and Ties, I normalized every event wins and ties points based on the actual number of matches played, based on 12 matches and rounded.

I have also included the results prior to normalization for comparison.

Congratulations to team 1986 for having the highest score in both the normalized and unnormalized results. For teams that only attended a single regional, team 955 had the best normalized result and team 4265 had the best unnormalized result.

All tiebreakers were implemented, however, there was still 1 tie, team 1571 and 3527 had the same points, Elim Score, Best Elims Draft Score, Best Draft, QP, Wins, and 3 highest scores.

Let me know if you find any errors. The alliance selection data was taken from the 2013 Alliance Selection thread, and there may be errors or typos.