Best FIRST teams of all time

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Eric Bareiss

254 should start franchising, I would buy one.

Easily the most successful team in FIRST history and they proved it again

That quote got me thinking, and while I would put the Cheesy Poofs as one of the most successful teams in FIRST history, I would also say that teams 71, and 16, and 47 would give them a run for the top.

So, that got me thinking and reminded me about a couple of past things that people put together to rank teams.

The first was a thread that Joe Johnson started with some ideas for ranking teams overall. Then, Aaron Vernon used some of those ideas to create a spreadsheet with data from 1998-2002. You can read about all that in this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3570

Also that same year, Ed Sparks created a spreadsheet showing data for just the current year, and broke it up by national division. He included his own ranking system for that year only. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pa...gle&paperid=69

I think both of those are immensly interesting, and was wondering if anyone had the time and excel ability to either update those ranking systems, or to create another?

And, in any case, I'd like to get a lively discussion going about the best FIRST teams of all time

My reasoning for picking 16, 47, 71, and 254:

16 - National Chairmans award. Numerous regional victories and awards at the regional and national level
47 - National Chairmans award. Numerous regional victories and awards. The swerve drive
71 - Only team to win Nationals more then once. Numerous regional victories and awards.
254 - multiple regional chairmans. Won every single San Jose regional ever.