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Originally Posted by P.J.
Just for a talking point, taking all Week 6 Regionals and District Events (with the exception of DCMPs), the capture rate in Qualifications was about 10%. Now only counting matches where the alliance captured AND scored 10+ boulders the capture rate drops to about 4%.
In Eliminations the capture rate drops from about 31% to about 15%.
Granted some of these alliances could have probably scored 10 if they knew they had to, I just really like numbers so I did some quick comparisons.
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I guess I'm a little biased to low goal, fast cyclers (our robot) and comparing to PNW DCMPs. In that event, capture rate was 48% in quals and from that, the top 1/3 of teams make it to CMPs for even better capture rates. Once we weakened the tower, we went back to finish off the 5th defense and did not further weaken the tower.
I expect capture rates to be higher and will push the advantage to high goal robots. That leaves the low goal robots with a somewhat ambiguous strategy - do we focus on scoring many low goals to capture the tower in quals or do we play defense to help secure the win? In most situations, we can probably prevent more high goal points than we can score low goal points. But where does that leave us for alliance selection? There are many robots in this predicament and we will have to see what capture rates are.