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Unread 17-04-2002, 13:35
Andy A. Andy A. is offline
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Human players are normaly important, but not always.

For our team, we didn't bother with the player station balls 90% of the time. It just wasn't worth it. If we could pick up 40 balls and score them reliably why waste our time cluttering up the field for maybe an extra 8 points? Our human players time was better spent keeping an eye on the clock, the other bots and our score. This freed up our other coach to just focus on telling the drivers what to be doing and the other team what was going on. Being that extra brain keeping track of things and relaying that info is something I suspect all human players do to some degree. Ours just had that as his first job and ball play as his second. It takes some of the pressure off the coach and drivers, which is _always_ a good thing.

Now, if your in a match with no ball handlers, then yes, your human player is as critical as your drivers. I saw plenty of matchs won by the player balls. But, if you have a good ball 'bot on your team, consider putting your human player to work as an extra coach and see how things work out.

-Andy A.
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