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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation here, and mecanum robots aren't considered by us to have poor manipulators *because* of their wheel choice. I'm trying to say that many teams that have mecanum wheels didn't get picked for other reasons as well, not just their wheel choice.
As for data, the robots that are near the bottom of our pick lists or on our DNP lists are more likely to have mecanum wheels than the robots near the middle or top of our pick lists. I could publish our Finger Lakes pick list from this year if you really want hard numbers, but it's just a trend I've noticed. There are exceptions, and I'm reasonably sure that 1523 would be one.
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Maybe it is a region thing, for the most part in Florida the mecanum bots do not have poor manipulators, though a lot do follow your statement about drivers not being as well versed with driving as their traditional drive counterparts. Like you said their are exceptions to every rule though your offer of data does bring up something, if possible I think it would be interesting for someone to compile data from events and see if there is a correlation between drivetrains and their ranking, and elimination selection/performance.