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Re: A statistical analysis of the "autonomous advantadge"

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I dont see an automatic clincher if your side gets the high score in auton mode?

If you know your bot cant score well in auton mode you can set it to get into field position and score immediately after. Your opponent, if they have fired all their shots off cannot reload and play defense at the same time. In fact, if you have fired nothing into their goals they have nothing to reload their robot with!

You one the other hand, can fire your shots into the goal, retreat to your side, reload and play defense while your opponents are busy getting the balls you just fired to reload their bot.

Nothing is cut & dry about this game.
huh?

There isn't an automatic clincher, from the looks of it, but it is almost clear that recovering from an autonomous loss is not easy.

The stats will probably confirm that defense first is advantageous (from those matches when the score was 0-0 after autonomous). We shall see.

The human players have ten additional balls to play with, if they load the other 30 into each robot.

If the robots fired ALL there balls into the goals to win autonomous, then that's 100 points.. which is a HUGE defecit for the loser to overcome. If the winner of autonomous missed some, then they are on the floor waiting to be picked up.

If the winner of autonomous is playing defense against the losers, and the losers save their balls, and don't score, because they don't have a good shot, then the winner has zero reason to go and load up. If the winner of auton plays defense and the losers fire (and misses because of defense) all their balls, then they HAVE to go and reload, otherwise they have nothing to score. When they are on their side reloading, the autonomous winner is doing the same.

Ok, ok.. I'll stop and wait for the stats as well, but I see a correlation.
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