Dr. Joe's 3
"Don't Bother Unless..."
Rules For High Efficiency Goal Shooting:
- Fast off the floor and into your hopper
- Fast out of hopper and into the shooter
- Accurrate shooting into the High Efficiency Goal
Seriously, it is going to be very hard to make the numbers work our from a cost/benefit point of view.
You have to excel at all 3 aspects of this process or your team probably would have been better off making simpler/smaller robot that you finished earlier and got more driver practice and had more time to make those 100s of refinements that add up to huge benefits to your overall performance.
I am quite serious. I would bet that for 90% of teams that are going to try to do high efficiency goal shots, they literally could have increased their average scores significantly more by just organizing their pits better and/or focusing on battery management and putting in place preflight check lists/diagnostic software features (e.g. checking for PWM wires that are unplugged).
Bottom line, High Efficiency Goal Shooting is going to be a boneyard of time suck for so so many teams.
Sorry for the downer post.
Dr. Joe J.
P.S. Our team was high fiving ourselves when a prototype "Fuel Tank" was able to spit out 2.5 balls per second during a test run. It seemed like a crazy fast stream of balls exiting our test hopper. Then I realized it would take 20 seconds of shooting non stop to empty a single hopper's worth of balls into the High Efficiency Goal. And that it would take 3 such hoppers worth to earn that tantalizing extra RP. How many teams are going to actually pull that off. Many will try. Few will succeed...