[Phyrxes]

One of the nice things about FRC is that there several "famous" teams who tend to use the same drivebase year to year, and the rest of us can look at pictures and other materials and benefit from their research. Personally I find it amusing when a student is looking at another team's drivebase and says "oh that looks like a hybrid of team xx and team yy drivebase."

While these teams do have a benefit of potentially making a decision on kick off Saturday "of yeah just built the usual drive" and then go work on game object manipulation, it is not guaranteed just like Lunacy throwing a curveball to a good number of teams that usually use mecanum wheels.

In reality "maximum efficiency" is a relative term that is directly related to an individual team's resources. For example my team presently doesn't have the ability to weld, waterjet, or laser cut so I wouldn't expect our robot to look like team that can do all those things in house.