# Team 5166: Fabricators

Freeland, Michigan, USA. Rookie year 2014. District FIM.

## Who backs them

- School: Freeland Middle Schoolhigh School
- Website: http://www.freelandroboticsclub.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freelandfabricators
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freelandfabricators5166
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freelandfabricators

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **99.48**, rank 614 of 3708 (83.5th percentile)
- Record: 39-25-0 over 64 matches (61% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 17.3, teleop 78.7, endgame 3.4
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 66%, RP2 14%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | 2026mimid | 2 | 1 | 10-2-0 | 41 | 1 | 100.3 | 76 |  |
| FIM District Kentwood Event presented by Dematic | 2026miken | 6 | 7 | 8-4-0 | 37 | 5 | 99.1 | 55 |  |
| FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Aptiv Foundation Division | 2026micmp4 | 7 | 34 | 4-8-0 | 21 | 7 | 95.3 | 66 |  |
| Curie Division | 2026cur | 8 | 49 | 5-5-0 | 18 |  | 99.5 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Winner (2026mimid)
- District Event Finalist (2026miken)
- District Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026mimid)
- Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow (2026miken)
- Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow (2026cur)

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 11
- Awards: 41, over 12 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 1 (2025)

| Award | Won | Years |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finalist | 6 | 2026, 2025, 2019, 2017 |
| Winner | 6 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2016, 2014 |
| Impact | 5 | 2025, 2024, 2023 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 4 | 2026, 2025, 2023 |
| Team Sustainability | 3 | 2026, 2025 |
| Innovation in Control | 3 | 2024, 2022, 2020 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 3 | 2022, 2019 |
| Safety (no longer given) | 3 | 2019, 2017, 2015 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 2 | 2019, 2016 |
| Team Spirit | 2 | 2019, 2018 |
| Creativity | 2 | 2018, 2016 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2024 |
| Quality | 1 | 2019 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Imagery, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Judges', Leadership, Rising All-Star, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Aptiv Foundation Division | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2026 | FIM District Kentwood Event presented by Dematic | Alliance 5 · captain | Finalist |
| 2026 | FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2025 | Einstein Field | Alliance 6 · 3rd pick | Finalist |
| 2025 | Johnson Division | Alliance 1 · 3rd pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Consumers Energy Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Finalist |
| 2025 | FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | FIM District Woodhaven Event presented by Altair | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Aptiv Division | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2024 | FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2024 | FIM District Lake City Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | Galileo Division | Alliance 5 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship presented by DTE Foundation | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship presented by DTE Foundation - APTIV Division | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | Alliance 1 · captain | Top four |
| 2023 | FIM District Kettering University Event #2 presented by Ford | Alliance 2 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Consumers Energy Division | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIM District Midland Event presented by Dow | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIM District Kettering University Event #1 | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2020 | FIM District Kettering University Event #2 | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2019 | Michigan State Championship - Consumers Energy Division |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | FIM District Shepherd Event | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | FIM District Midland Event | Alliance 5 · captain | Finalist |
| 2019 | FIM District Kettering University Event #2 | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | FIM District Midland Event |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | FIM District Kettering University Event #1 | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2017 | Darwin Division |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | Michigan State Championship - DTE Energy Foundation Division |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | FIM District - Midland Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2017 | FIM District - Kettering University Event #2 | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2016 | Hopper Division |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | Michigan State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | FIM District - Midland Event | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2016 | FIM District - Standish-Sterling Event | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2015 | FIM District - Great Lakes Bay Region Event |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | FIM District - Standish Event | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | Great Lakes Bay Region FIRST Robotics District Competition |  | Won the event |
| 2014 | Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 99.5 | 614 / 3708 | 83.5 | 39-25-0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 68.8 | 264 / 3687 | 92.9 | 40-21-0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 33.2 | 270 / 3475 | 92.3 | 37-23-0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 59.0 | 109 / 3284 | 96.7 | 42-21-0 | 7 |
| 2022 | 33.9 | 285 / 3053 | 90.7 | 31-25-1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 54.6 | 175 / 2024 | 91.4 | 12-5-0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 27.1 | 297 / 3763 | 92.1 | 32-29-0 | 6 |
| 2018 | 69.0 | 2415 / 3617 | 33.2 | 8-20-0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 100.3 | 565 / 3331 | 83.1 | 35-24-2 | 5 |
| 2016 | 35.2 | 554 / 3114 | 82.2 | 30-29-1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 18.5 | 1398 / 2873 | 51.4 | Not applicable (qual average) | 3 |
| 2014 | 23.9 | 1401 / 2697 | 48.1 | 16-15-0 | 2 |

A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL.

The same page for a person: [https://www.match13.com/team/5166](https://www.match13.com/team/5166).

---

- Every URL on this site: [https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml](https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml)
- What this site is for: [https://www.match13.com/llms.txt](https://www.match13.com/llms.txt)
- Send `Accept: text/markdown` to any page here to read it as markdown.