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Re: Best Fender shooters
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The goal of defense would optimally be to completely prevent scoring. However, as most people know this simply isn't usually possible. The way to determine if defense is successful you have to figure out if that robot is making a positive point contriution to its alliance. This means that if the defending robot prevents more points on defense than it would have make on offense it has given it's team a positive contriution by lowering both alliances' scores respectively but the opponent's more. When a team tries to play fender defense on teams that can back up and score effectively from the key they are not preventing very many points from being scored. Instead, they might be better off taking the opponents balls each of which is worth a potential 6 point swing. So if that robot spends the first minute of the match picking up and shooting 3 balls to the other side of the field (potential 18 point swing) that would be the equivelent of preventing 6 balls from being scoring in the high basket. So again, to reitterate, sometimes fender defense is absolutely to correct thing for the defender to do, however, sometimes there is more valuable things they could be doing, especially if the offense dosn't shoot from the fender.
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Last edited by BJC : 11-04-2012 at 08:53.
Reason: nevermind
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