Team Contributions to the Alliance in FIRST Robotics Competitions

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. At each competition event, there is a qualification round, followed by a playoff round. During the qualification round, each team is scored and ranked. Top seeded teams then pick two other teams to organize into alliances to compete in the playoff round. The contributions of the alliance captain, the 1^st pick, and the 2^nd pick to the alliance’s probability of winning in the playoff round are evaluated using the data from eight competition events that Team 341, Miss Daisy attended during 2022 and 2023 seasons. Insights from this data exploration may help inform team’s alliance selection strategy for future competitions.