Welp, the old one is locked so here we are:
There are more blue banners in Wyoming than escalators*.
This is also true for Vermont, and probably a few other states.
*Both in terms of the 2 pairs of escalators that gets quoted, and the objectively more correct 4 individual escalators
1197 probably has the most semifinal losses of any team
2007- Out in Semis at LA
2008- Again out in semis at LA
2011- Dismantled by 359 in semifinals in Vegas
2012- Ended a close semifinals series with a loss at LA
2015- after barely scraping into semis, our Inland Empire regional ended there
2016- lost in semis at the Arizona West Regional, Fall Classic Day 1 off-season and helped our alliance lose in Einstein semifinals
2017- lost a tight matchup by the 6 fuel 696 got in auto in semifinals
2018- ended our season in Galileo semifinals
2019- lost in semis at both LA and Vegas
2021- nearly made it through semifinals at Beach Blitz, but were struck with some unfortunate mechanical failures
That’s 13 total semifinal losses.
I think this is probably because historically we’ve been good enough to make playoffs consistently, but not been good enough to really win anything. Having the likes of 973, 330, and 1717 present at the LA regional every single single year for a while probably didn’t help either.
How about this:
I think next weekend is the 10 year anniversary of the last time 254 didn’t win a regional.
Right Troy?
You wouldn’t be wrong by more than about half a week.
Unless you count 2020, but both of their events were canceled that year and they STILL won a regional Chairman’s, so I think we can ignore that.
the number of times my teams alliance has needed the FTA during our finals matches.
Number of Robots that are supposed to be on the Field for an eliminations match: 6
I’d love to know what the actual average is…
Just like the average number of fingers humans have… slightly less than you think it should be.
I have a feeling this is also true for West Virginia, although I cannot be certain. My intuition based on living my whole life here is that there are far fewer than ~30 escalators in this state.
As with a lot of volume stats this list is heavy on Michigan teams dues to districts offering more play opportunities.
I counted 10 SF knockouts for 1197 but I did not count any off-seasons, round robins, 2015, or past 2020.
sf_losses.txt (20.8 KB)
| Team | SF Losses |
|---|---|
| 33 | 22 |
| 2337 | 17 |
| 1241 | 17 |
| 70 | 17 |
| 27 | 17 |
| 341 | 16 |
| 175 | 16 |
| 126 | 16 |
| 548 | 15 |
| 3314 | 14 |
I’ll have to reference our teams excel sheet, but we keep records of our win-loss with and against each team. My personal (least) favorite is we are now something along the lines of 0-15 going against 78.
This is why I like to normalize to things like “sf eliminations per sf rounds played” (which is a fancy way of saying sf loss rate)
Should account for that.
Yeah but that was more work.
sf_loss_rate.txt (57.8 KB)
The top two teams on this list show it’s inaccuracy. 1249 won an event in 2005 but the elimination matches aren’t on TBA. 4381 won in 2015 (which I excluded due to laziness) and won an event this year (which I haven’t updated into my database yet due to laziness)
| Team | SF Eliminations | Semifinals | SF Loss Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1249 | 7 | 7 | 1.0 |
| 4381 | 7 | 7 | 1.0 |
| 5036 | 7 | 7 | 1.0 |
| 2823 | 6 | 6 | 1.0 |
| 3009 | 6 | 6 | 1.0 |
| 144 | 5 | 5 | 1.0 |
| 470 | 5 | 5 | 1.0 |
| 1719 | 5 | 5 | 1.0 |
| 1811 | 5 | 5 | 1.0 |
| 1876 | 5 | 5 | 1.0 |
Of the 51.84% of alliances whose numbers can form a triangle, there has never been an alliance whose numbers formed a pythagorean triple. (2005 and after only) The closest was 47 48 67 with 47^2 + 48^2 being only 24 away from 67^2
Off the top of my head, (27, 364, 365) seems like the best candidate, especially in a one championship world. (41, 840, 841) isn’t out of the realm of possibilities.
But those didn’t happen right? If they did then my code is wrong and there might be more.
From what I believe Team 2383 achieved both the highest tied score at 97-97 and the lowest at 0-0 at the same regional. That regional was LVR 2022
Correct, the ones I suggested are what I think are the most likely to happen in the future. They have not happened yet.
All the talk of the #1 seed’s dominance this year reinforces what an outlier our 2019 season was. 7660 was on the #8 seed alliance at both our district events and upset the #1 seed both times. At the second event (2019milin), we went on to win the whole event, the last time time a #8 seed accomplished that. Then at MSC, the #8 seed of our division again defeated the #1 seed.
That’s 3 events attended - 3 #8 quarterfinal wins - 2 with us on the alliance - and a blue banner from the #8 spot.
The highest number of blue banners won in a single year by any team from a city called “Greenville” is 5 blue banners.