[mightywombat]

With the season quickly approaching I was just thinking of the best ways to analyze the game and pick the best strategy. Do teams go by the numbers and design a bot that will achieve the task that gets the most points? If so, how do you figure which task is most important? Or do teams analyze the game, try to figure out (using numbers and some intuition) which tasks will be most important for a winning bot to achieve?

Last year my team convinced ourselves that being able to stack would be the most important task, followed by going under the bar and being on the ramp at the end. While being able to stack was important it was also near impossible and in the end the mechanism was replaced with a box pushing arm. Is there any way to avoid making strategical mistakes like this?