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Originally Posted by squirrel
Team 25 had a pretty nifty shooter in 2006.
I seem to recall that teams that shot the ball with a single wheel that gave it a lot of backspin, did really well.
Of course the backboard messes up that idea a little bit, you have to aim for the sweet spot, a certain height above the basket.
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I hope teams, when designing, think of how humans throw a basketball. They don't launch it at the square of the backboard, they try to arc their shot.
Think of how your rotational velocity of your pitchers, pitch of the launcher, and distance from the hoop go into arcing the ball instead of launching it.