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Re: KISS
It looks to me like 4454 built the right robot for this game - particularly for early in the season. You don't need to score all the points to get a high OPR. You just need to be around when the higher scores are achieved. A team like 4454 could easily score 10 in auto, cross 3 of the 5 defense groups, score boulders in the low goal every cycle, and get 5 points on the batter at the end. More importantly, they could influence match planning and strategy to make sure that every alliance member stayed on task and made the "whole" better than the "sum of the parts".
At Standish-Sterling district this week, our first pick (4377) looked a lot like a tank-tread version of 4454 and had a well deserved OPR 35.33. They only did low goals, but they did them reliably and were difficult to defend against. We thought this made them the best partner candidate for capturing the tower.
For this game, KISS has the added benefit of fewer potential failure modes. Crossing the defenses can be quite brutal, and as the game develops I expect the robot-to-robot interactions to take that to another level.
OPR is what it is. If you like your rating, you tend to think it is very accurate. If you don't then its not. At the moment (ours was 45 this weekend), I would have to say it is "very accurate" (haha).
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NC Gears (Newaygo County Geeks Engineering Awesome Robotic Solutions)
FRC 1918 (Competing at Standish and West MI in 2016)
FTC 6043 & 7911 (Competing at West MI and Allendale in 2015)
Last edited by Wayne TenBrink : 06-03-2016 at 07:26.
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