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Originally Posted by Jeremiah H
We didn't have a shooter, nor did we prototype one, but judging from the things related here and what I observed and learned from talking to people, the vertical-wheel shooters had a flatter trajectory due to backspin, but also were less "reliable" if the shooter wheel did not have time to build back up to its original speed, because the ball would inherently not have the same amount of backspin.
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This was actually one of our main concerns, but we fooled around with the programming for the paddles for our shooter so that even if you held the trigger down, the paddles would be slow enough for the shooter wheel to get back up to speed. We also wrote this into our autonomous code.
The vertical wheel also allowed us to shoot from far out without going over the limit.