Hello everyone, I’m the human player/mechanical of team 4678-CyberCavs
In January, I conducted a statistical research about EPA. I am willing to share it and hope anyone can follow up this topic and deep into it. Here is a brief summary about the report:
Findings are evident to support initial hypothesis that teams experience increased EPA through first 5 years
There is a strong correlation between EPA and win%
Bias: The part that I compared pre- and post- COVID is not convincing, as I only compared 2 years(2019 vs 2023). Lots of things happen during 2020 to 2022, such as swerve drives(although some teams like 1323 had incorporated it in 2018)
Before you start to read it, here are a few things I want you to know:
The EPA were collected before the recent update of Statbotics. It only contains teams founded prior to 2020.
English is not my first language, so please do not be picky about my wording.
This study is done by a grade 12 high school student, so it won’t be perfect. Lots of calculations in the report are done in order to meet the criteria of Ontario curriculum of MDM4U Data Management. Those of you from America may not be familiar with it(I have not done AP stats).
At this point, I wish more Ontario students can choose this topic as their project. There are some sub-topics that I failed to achieve:
Most of the team do not publish their annual budget and size(students+mentors), which I can not compare team budget with their performance
I do not have time to compare Ontario district to another districts(FiM, PNW) or states(California, Illinois)
Potentially, the association between GDP and team performance can be a great topic
If you wanna proceed my study, feel free to choose one or multiple of these topics. I attach my report, spreadsheet of ONT EPA and a slideshow(for those who don’t have time to read). Drop some thoughts if you have ideas for more topic to explore
Special thanks to @Curtis_4678 for assiting me collecting data using API and insightful suggestions.