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Re: Wheel Spacing Ratios

I don't think it's accurate to assume that the center wheels in a 6wd center drop are equally loaded. The center of mass is usually much closer to the center than either side of the robot and usually the center wheels take substantially more load (tread wear makes this very apparent). This means that teams can run quite substantially longer than the optimal ratio would suggest on a 6wd drop (see 2056 in 2013).

Aside from that nitpick this is a well done analysis. Please label your graphs better though. It's hard to interpret a graph and spreadsheet of two unitless values where one of which isn't properly labeled.
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