foul free club

[pandamonium]

After 45 matches of the 2014 game team 1511 rolling thunder never received a single foul. This seems quite rare this year. Did any other teams escape 2014 clean?

[JB987]

Being foul free as a team is meaningless in terms of match outcome when another team on your alliance gets game changing fouls...;)

[Christopher149]

Well, our human player never incurred G40, does that almost count?

Because, we did manage some G28s, and we accidentally caught a truss shot for a G12.

[Keegbot]

We never had any fouls against us but we had one alliance partner who had a G28 called against them

[Andy A.]

I dunno, are we counting week one events?

[M. Lillis]

I dunno, are we counting week one events?

Week one should probably be excluded, simply because of insane everything was at the begninning of the season.

[Max Boord]

We had 2 drivers (myself and BEN35678) who would hand off between the 2 regionals as 1st and 2nd driver. Ben was completely clean except for a ball that bounced off the wall and into our robot (technical foul), while I did not receive any penalties. Our human player was also 100% foul free.

[ThunderousPrime]

Being foul free as a team is meaningless in terms of match outcome when another team on your alliance gets game changing fouls...;)


I understand this. We lost 2 matches and tied 1 match this year because our partners committed fouls. You can only control your own team/destiny in regards to getting fouls though.

[pabeekm]

We managed to get away with no fouls through two regionals and champs despite the fact that our strategy relied entirely on our human player. Shout out to Tucker - best human player ever. :)

[Andrew Schreiber]

Being foul free as a team is meaningless in terms of match outcome when another team on your alliance gets game changing fouls...;)

Or when you are playing the game and get fouls called on you when a poorly built robot hits you and breaks. Or when there's a completely subjective definition of trapping...

Can you tell I'm still mad at how bad the rules for this game were?

[pandamonium]

^^ I did not intend for this to become another post about rules.

[JesseK]

Got 2 'bot over the edge' fouls in DC since we were pushed
Got 1 'opponent ball possession' foul in Chesapeake due to a freak landing of a truss shot + bounce
Got 0 fouls at champs.

So no fouls that we had any control over.

[Lil' Lavery]

1712 played 39 matches before incurring our first foul, including 14 matches during week 1. Unfortunately, between match 40 and 46 we accumulated 180 foul points.

[Matt17]

Team 3044 was able to it through 36 matches (two regionals) with no fouls

[Anthony Galea]

3175 was foul free at *gasp* Centerline, and we were foul free until Q48 at Bedford, where we caught an opposing truss shot, SF 2-3 (bad pinning call), and Q127 at MSC, where we once again caught a ball, but it was due to us jarring a shot loose. So, we were close, I'd say.

No G40s
No G27/28 (although we played heavy defense)
2 G12 (20 pt)
1 Pinning (can't remember the g number)

[Joe Ross]

Being foul free as a team is meaningless in terms of match outcome when another team on your alliance gets game changing fouls...;)

The following teams' alliances played foul free through the whole season (per twitter data, the usual twitter caveats apply).

121 136 335 486 498 877 896 1212 1474 1492 1512 1590 1633 1745 1769 1896 2021 2370 2434 2441 2449 2457 2584 2621 2634 2723 2769 2890 2895 2912 3080 3133 3181 3276 3315 3321 3330 3472 3526 3527 3541 3560 3639 3719 3780 3796 3853 3868 3872 3885 3941 3944 4089 4099 4111 4114 4154 4156 4250 4262 4311 4371 4378 4403 4496 4506 4526 4565 4629 4632 4635 4673 4685 4716 4731 4746 4816 4841 4939 5043 5091 5094 5189 5218 5271 5342

[who716]

Team 716 played in 48 matches and accrued two fouls against us. One was our driver station computer died prior to a match and when we got up to the station we plugged it in and turned it in but the joysticks were all messed up
Making the driver drive the left side and the operator operate the other side before we could fix it we ended up driving on top of another robot. The other was a ramming penalty trying to last minute stop the team from scoring as we were ahead by 15

[Koko Ed]

Fouls were so easy to get this year it almost seemed like it was a complimentary gift for showing up for the match.

[Gregor]

Our only foul was a week 1 G40, and (robot) extending outside the safety zone from getting pushed.

[Ether]

The following teams' alliances played foul free through the whole season (per twitter data, the usual twitter caveats apply).

121 136 335 486 498 877 896 1212 1474 1492 1512 1590 1633 1745 1769 1896 2021 2370 2434 2441 2449 2457 2584 2621 2634 2723 2769 2890 2895 2912 3080 3133 3181 3276 3315 3321 3330 3472 3526 3527 3541 3560 3639 3719 3780 3796 3853 3868 3872 3885 3941 3944 4089 4099 4111 4114 4154 4156 4250 4262 4311 4371 4378 4403 4496 4506 4526 4565 4629 4632 4635 4673 4685 4716 4731 4746 4816 4841 4939 5043 5091 5094 5189 5218 5271 5342

Does that list include Practice matches ?

[Joe Ross]

Does that list include Practice matches ?

yes

[DevBal5012]

Our Human Players are both completely clean! (:

[asid61]

The following teams' alliances played foul free through the whole season (per twitter data, the usual twitter caveats apply).

121 136 335 486 498 877 896 1212 1474 1492 1512 1590 1633 1745 1769 1896 2021 2370 2434 2441 2449 2457 2584 2621 2634 2723 2769 2890 2895 2912 3080 3133 3181 3276 3315 3321 3330 3472 3526 3527 3541 3560 3639 3719 3780 3796 3853 3868 3872 3885 3941 3944 4089 4099 4111 4114 4154 4156 4250 4262 4311 4371 4378 4403 4496 4506 4526 4565 4629 4632 4635 4673 4685 4716 4731 4746 4816 4841 4939 5043 5091 5094 5189 5218 5271 5342

Not a lot of <#1000 teams on that list, funnily enough.

[Canon reeves]

we would have been on that list, I was the driver and I drove heavy defense and never got a foul. Our operator who wouldn't have been that if we had more team members than we did positions to fill, had one job, to operate the catcher. His only big instructions were to not open both sides of the catcher if we were near the edge because we would get a penalty for going over the edge. He went over the edge. I was crushed.

[Ether]

Not a lot of <#1000 teams on that list, funnily enough.

Percentage of teams on the list compared to teams in the database, for each range1:

0001-0999 1.64%
1000-1999 3.62%
2000-2999 3.07%
3000-3999 5.27%
4000-4999 4.64%
5000-5350 3.20%


1with practice matches excluded

[Kingland093]

4215 had 1 foul (possessing opponents' ball) and pur human player had no fouls.

[BBray_T1296]

We accidentally pushed team 148 into their own ball for a truss catch.

Does that count as a 10 point foul?