[EricH]

Originally Posted by page2067

My comment was assuming practice matches on practice robot - not same as comp robot - practice matches on comp post season could be considered - in any event like all scouting to each their own, to judge of what a valuable metric is.

It may be interesting if others shared how many matches it took to find wear out modes? After early failure modes identified.

Practice matches on the practice robot, right, those shouldn't count.

But the 3-6 practice matches per official event that teams get--with their competition robot--probably should be counted, if there is any way to determine those (and whether the robot showed up, or went in via filler line). Probably the easiest way is to add 3 matches per event that has practice matches (or whatever the proper number is for districts/CMP)--anything more doesn't count, anything less we'll assume you spent on the practice field or testing in the pit.