I’m not sure that the drive time for the average team necessarily is the most helpful way to visualize this, though.
I tried this with my first analysis, but it ended up being too subjective of a metric to really be useful. It also doesn’t factor in that after a certain distance teams will prefer to fly than drive. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the city has all of the resources to host a championship (international airport, hotels, etc). This analysis only takes into account driving distance and the availability of a convention center in the city.
You can see a list of all of the cities, as well as the code used to generate the list, here. The shortest distance cities are Chicago and Indianapolis, with driving distances of 16.4 and 16.5 hours, respectively. Unlike the previous model which included all drivable teams that ever existed, this map only includes the ~2800 teams in the contiguous US, Mexico, and Canada that competed in 2022.įrom this analysis, Houston is ranked 28th out of 46 cities, with an average driving time of ~24 hours. The driving time calculation is again done by Project OSRM. Now instead of choosing the top 100 cities by population, I chose the cities that have convention centers, according to this list from Wikipedia (excluding Honolulu). The map shows the time it would take the average FRC team to drive from their county to the city shown.
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