How far are people shooting?
 

I don't know if their is a thread for this already but I was wondering if we are shooting to short, when our shooter is flat it is shooting around 12-14 feet we are just trying to experiment with angles we did 10 and got to 15 feet. How far is the typical first team shooting if they are doing a shooter?

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10 feet 8 3/4 inches give or take 1000th of an inch. Boy I hope the feild is build to spec?

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We were able to get 48feet or so with a relatively good accuracy (for a prototype). I'm holding onto hope for a full court shot, but it's still a stretch.

For the sake of sharing, we have a curved shooter wall with a ~7" wheel in the middle, and ~10.5" between the wheel tread and the curved wall, wired directly to a cim motor

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We were hitting the 3pt shot from 25ft, and I'm sure we could do 30-35ft.

Inline shooter - with 8.5" wheels.

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FRC2168 is designing to shoot a few different distances less then 122".
FRC558 is going for a lot less distance than that right now.

Our question during prototyping: Why shoot farther then you need to?

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Our prototype got around 10-15 ft as well, but we're waiting on some parts that should hopefully let us shoot from a lot farther.

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So you don't have to drive as far to get discs from the feeder station, which will save time which will allow you to shoot more discs...

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This!

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Even more importantly, how accurate are people from various distances. I humanly can easily throw a frisbee 50 maybe 100 feet. I also might kneecap a referee with it.

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Hahahhaa.


We're shooting from three hundred feet. Maybe they'll let us shoot from the queuing line?

-Nick

Re: How far are people shooting?
 

during our prototyping, when we tested just to see how far we could shoot it at the one (not adjustable) our shooter is set at, we shot about 40-45 feet

EDIT: and at a glance, the shooter angle seems to be about 35 or 40 degrees

Re: How far are people shooting?
 

Assuming no one's in your way or bumping you to throw off your aim, of course.

We're figuring we'll save more time and be more accurate if we back into the pyramid to set our range and aim, then fire from there. And pop forward to tag an opponent and draw a foul if they're trying to block us, of course.

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You will have to shoot over the net, would be pretty impressive:p

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Agreed, we have a similar plan, just at a different location on the pyramid.

Our shot is farther away from the goal so there is definitely the added variance in that, but I like our chances to be able to shoot more by not having to drive as far.

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If you pop forward solely to draw a foul, does 18-1 come into play here and negate the foul on the blocker?


Rule 18-1:
Strategies aimed solely at forcing the opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule are not in the spirit of FRC and are not allowed. Rule violations forced in this manner will not result in assessment of a penalty on the target ALLIANCE .