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Re: Autonomous Strategy?

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Originally Posted by Abwehr View Post
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.
The more I play with your program the more I agree with you. I doesn't really matter where you place the spoiler in a row. It seems that any place you put the spoiler takes an equal amount of points away from the opposing team. The keeper now seems to have less value then we would have thought.


And yes knocking over the keepers may be ineffective however, when faced with a team which can only pick up ringers from an upright posistion this strategy may yet be effective.
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