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Re: alliances selection

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Originally Posted by Spartan710 View Post
I was wondering what teams would rather choose a team that puts up two six stacks and bin 75% of the time or a team the puts up three stacks of five with two bins third if it is available 97% of the time. The reason I am asking this is we are thinking about changing our robot and wondering if it is worth losing our consistency . Thanks for the help.
Consistency is generally more important. Plus your third uncapped stack might be capped by an alliance partner. Dropping one of your 6 stacks is a risk that is unattractive. We made the early decision to focus on 5-stacks for strategic reasons for which you can work out the math.