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Re: Best way to estimate the best defense bot

To keep track of defensive bots this year, we used both pit scouting and match scouting. We rated the drive train's speed, pushing power (torque), and manueverability on a 1 to 5 scale. Then we also kept track of the number of times the robot pushed another robot, blocked another robot, pushed a robot while it was shooting, and blocked shots to see what kind of defense it played.

While we didn't get to pick partners at any regionals this year, but it seemed to work fairly well. Except for two easily fixable major problems (the 1 to 5 scale's default was 1, making many average robots look bad and in pushing matches back and forth it was hard to decide the number of pushes to award the robot), the system could tell us how good a robot was at blocking full court shooters, or if it tried to push robots frequently, but was just too slow to catch them, etc.

I wouldn't recommend using a system exactly like ours was this year, but hopefully an idea or two from it would be helpful to you.