Red Advantage ?

[Krystine T.]

Does the Red alliance have an advantage over the Blue?

George Williams (60) asked my dad if he had noticed that the red alliance had an advantage over the blue in the finals at the Sacramento Regional. He went on to say that he noticed blue only won two matches during the finals at that regional. George’s thought was that the red tetras had better visual perception than the blue tetras. My dad and I decided to put a spreadsheet together to determine if this might be true. We took the final's match results from each regional that FIRST posted on their website. Not all of the results were posted, so we used the data that was available as of the evening of 3-12-05 6:00 pm MST. We put the data into our spreadsheet to analyze it. We did notice that there are discrepancies in the team numbers and we can only assume that the scores are correct. Based on this information it looks as though the red alliance does have at least an 18% advantage over the blue alliance.

If anyone has new or corrected data please send it to me at Krystinet@hotmail.com. I will continue to update the spreadsheet as more data becomes available.

--Krystine Thoroughman