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Originally Posted by MrBasse
I don't how how this might work, I typically am pretty focused on my teams robot and the areas directly around our robot.
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Fair enough.
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It has been shown multiple times that six refs with tablets can't accurately keep track of which balls are auto balls, fouls, or assists. Nothing against them, this is an impressively difficult game to referee. But if they can't do it consistently as a team, how is a coach going to manage it while coaching too?
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The refs aren't actually keeping track of all this. Not directly, anyhow. A lot of it is built into the ref tablets and the field management system. For auto balls vs. balls in the cycle, the tablets switch modes when the last auto ball is scored. The refs don't actually track assists directly - they just punch in possessions as they happen and the FMS does the computation to figure out how many assists those possessions work out to.
But you do raise a good point: the refs have the benefit of a screen in front of them showing how many auto balls are remaining on the field for whichever alliance they're tracking. Without that, I can understand how someone could lose track of whether they're on their last ball from auto or their first cycle, especially if they're focused on just one robot. Judging by the number of teams I've seen try to score truss points with an auto ball, I guess that sort of confusion happens a lot.
