Because the FRCTop25.com chat room was surprised there wasn’t a thread about this yet.
Start your meaningless fantasizing now!
I’m guessing you can start splitting up the teams once the team list reaches 348…
I’ll post the standard ACGN sort after 348 teams are confirmed.
as far as I can tell the list is at 348… is it just that it is not confirmed. I am anxious to see what we are up against…
There are now 348 teams on the CMP list. Keep in mind the payment deadline is tomorrow, but anyone on the CMP list already had to commit to pay the event fee in some manner by now in order to appear on the registered list.
So back to the pointless speculating…
Dividing the teams into alternating Archimedes, Curie, Galileo, and Newton divisions and then sorting by Average OPR (as calculated by OPRnet) within each division leads to the following completely baseless, not founded on any truth whatsoever, possible, maybe, not really, just forget about it and wait until the real ones are announced, divisional breakdowns:
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.zip (72.8 KB)
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.pdf (298 KB)
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.zip (72.8 KB)
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.pdf (298 KB)
Its giving me an error when I try to open it up in excel.
Newton looks pretty challenging…
See pdf attachment added in original post.
Need to extract the .zip first.
Looks like the algorithm places us in Newton! Here’s hoping we get to play with those teams.
this years theoretical Newton reminds me of how everyone called 1114 being on the same alliance as 469. I call 1114 and 148.
If 111 and 1114 get together it’s “Game Over, Man!”
is WildStang better than Robowranglers? Tough call. At least 1511 and 191 may get a chance to work together again 
111/1114 alliance captian, “And with our final pick we select team 177”
(not saying 177 would fall that far, everybody would want them and we all know why)
I think FIRST should just get to the point and just assign 177 to the Einstein division where they can await an alliance they feel like working with.
Travis,
thanks for doing this!!
Is there any way you could do a serpentine version of this?
Does anyone remember what they have used in recent years?
I know for many years it was the simple 1,2,3,4–5,6,7,8—9,10,11,12…
From my recollection a couple of years ago it went to serpentine…
1,2,3,4-- 8,7,6,5 —9.10,11,12 — 16,15,14,13…
I honestly can’t remember what was done last year…
thanks again!!
Bob
Last year there was either no pattern or it was complex enough that nobody was able to crack it - the assignments seemed pretty random.
I’m sure FIRST did the math. They always do the math. Just not math humans use.
It was probably given to them from NASA from the aliens so we’d quit predicting the divisions before they release it.
177 is far too good this year to even escape the first round. And for that reason, I think they have their lowest shot at Einstein in years. 
See attached. And, um…
St. Catharines, ON 1114 Archimedes 67.14
Schaumburg, IL 111 Archimedes 66.34
Greenville, TX 148 Archimedes 63.88
San Jose, CA 254 Archimedes 60.39
Stoney Creek, ON 2056 Archimedes 57.29
Hopkins, MI 2054 Archimedes 53.82
Hammond, IN 71 Archimedes 49.79
League City, TX 118 Archimedes 46.72
Warren, OH 48 Archimedes 45.91
…yeah…no.
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.zip (89.7 KB)
Serpentine - Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.pdf (298 KB)
Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.zip (89.7 KB)
Serpentine - Fake Divisions - Warning - Not Real - Absolutely No Basis In Reality Whatsoever.pdf (298 KB)
What, you don’t want to be the 8th seed captain against 1114/111?
Could you imagine if each of them picked their own alliances? OMG that would be the greatest quarterfinals ever