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Originally Posted by Abwehr
The more I do the math, the less autonomous mode seems to matter.
I made a scoring program that computer spoiler value ( http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1918) and if you play with it for awhile, you'll see that only VERY rarely does a single location have a significantly higher scoring value than any other on the rack. Usually, there are 3-4 other locations that result in the same spoiled point value...you'd just go for one of those instead. |
Good program. I tend to agree with you on the importance of a keeper.
But if your robot can do 5-10 rings and your auto mode can add one more to that, that increases your chances for a better ring score 10-20%. That may make the difference on many games, if all other things are equal.
We plan to do auto mode and well. Last year we usually got half the points in auto mode, this year nothing like that.
But there will also be a pride in doing it well and having the robot score during that time instead of sitting there.
What will be our secret to scoring in auto mode? Hardware guys delivering a robot at end of week 5 and giving us a week to prefect it!!!!!