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Originally Posted by DMetalKong
Do you have an aggregate average for all matches? (a histogram showing the distribution would be really cool as well) It would be interesting to compare against the predictions from this thread.
Also, I agree very much with the point about balancing. Despite the fact that most teams could not score enough points to make up for a balance, balancing seemed to be a complete afterthought in most of the matches that I watched (the matches involving 148 in the elims being a spectacular exception). |
Working on it, I have a paper due tomorrow too.
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To exemplify how much teams are struggling, notice that every regional, with the exception of San Diego, has an average alliance score under 20.
If you aren't sinking in any balls, JUST GO FOR THE BRIDGES. PLEASE.
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Interesting this year is the huge gap between the 'deep' regionals, and the 'shallow' ones. Last year there was a gap... but IIRC the shallow ones were not as far off the deep ones.
While I agree that an average match score of around 15 points is not great, I don't think it is a sign of teams doing worse than is typical. My rule of thumb from the last 9 years of FIRST has been the mean robot can score it's starting load in the middle task. Otherwise, it can do the main scoring task once give of take a half. For example, this year that would be 2 balls in the middle goal. times 3 and you've got 12 points. Last year, 1.5 tubes scored per robot (although the Minibot kind of messed that one up). In 2010, 1.5 soccer balls per robot per match.