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Re: Best way to estimate the best defense bot

It's probably not the best method, but I had our scouts watching for collisions between robots. Give a point for a collision won, take a point away for a collision lost. Find the ratio between the two.

While this has it's imperfections, it gave us a pretty good idea of which robots had the ability to play valuable enough defense and which would just get pushed out of the way.

It's not easy to quantify defense and this year it's really just best to figure out who has a defensive strategy, then watch to see if they are actually any good at it. IMO, picking a robot to play defense in elims over one that can score is a bad strategy unless it is clearly a strong defender (strong enough where you don't need numbers to realize it can play defense).
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