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Originally Posted by jblay
I'm a big fan of team 125 especially their robot last year and really their robot almost every year (including the fender bot they had this year), and I really hope this doesn't come off the wrong way because I have a lot of respect for the Nutrons, but I think their feeding strategy at IRI simply exploited flawed scouting. Most good human players could inbound a ball into the offensive zone at a rate above 90%. At IRI almost every alliance had a human player capable of inbounding the balls into their offensive zones at a rate around 95%. A strategy that takes a robot and removes it from other tasks in order to raise that rate to 100% make little sense in terms of winning a match or controlling the balls on the field. My view is that it makes more sense for a robot to pick up balls and put them into their offensive zone and let the inbounders do their job. Now if a team simply scouts how many balls a team puts into their offensive zone, this idea of how many more balls enter their zone as a result of what they are doing may not, and rarely will, be accounted for.
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But, as I said earlier,
where the balls go in the offensive zone is quite unappreciated--at least in my opinion. The tendency of inbounders is to put the balls in the opposite corner of the field, 1) in the corner, and 2) in your opponents' lane. Spending time to chase balls down, dig them out, and avoid the defense is time that could be spent shooting. By keeping the balls near the key (their accuracy in doing so was surprising), they are easier to retrieve and less enticing for opponent feeders to return. I'm not just saying this because we picked them, it actually is easier.
As for picking up off the floor, yes, it could have been more effective there.