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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Do you remember which match that was? 
I was at the event and watched almost all of our matches from about twenty feet away from our robot on the sidelines, and we never had the opposing human player sink every shot in autonomous. Granted this could have been one of the matches I missed, but the average human player accuracy I witnessed with throwing balls into our full-speed spinning trailer was about 30-50%, whereas on stationary or linear moving targets this number often approached 70-90%. |
I would tend to agree with your numbers Art. The spinning auto mode
GREATLY reduced the risk of being scored on, as I was watching your robot compared to others in pretty much every match yesterday.
Then I noticed another team was spinning so I compared them to everyone else, & their bot did much better at defense as well during auto mode.
Spinning code = works well!!
If your programming team can't program anything else this year, you may want to start with this to be defensive, or something completely different. Just program something though or when you're sitting there motionless you're going to get about 10 balls scored on your at least.
Also, there WERE some exceptional Payload Specialists who made good decisions on who to score on (what one of 3 goals to score on) & scored nearly 100% in all matches.
I'm not saying they used & scored 20+ balls every match, but the ones who scored consistently were often seen as "good PS's" & commended by their team mates at the ends of the match at numerous times that I saw.
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Originally Posted by Mike Betts
5. Unless penalties were being discussed, field reset occurred immediately after a match was over. I never saw an official count the cells in any trailer. As such, I did wonder about the accuracy of the scores in many matches.
Regards,
Mike
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Originally Posted by Fred Agnir
Did they have manual scorers in the end?
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The scorekeepers who were operating the hand-held devices during the match for the scoring came out after every single match & verified the count in their own trailer they were scoring by hand-held BEFORE the field reset crew could take ANY Orbit balls off the field just to ease your mind.
(The scorekeepers had a yellow arm band on which wasn't always visible & I actually told a girl not to take balls out if a trailer at one point because i didn't see her arm band, but she had it. Oops. lol)
Accuracy of the "real time" scores is definitely a question with the scoring hand-helds in speaking to some of the scorers who couldn't necessarily see the trailer the whole match due to blind spots of it being behind a robot, so they were told to, & happy to verify the scores manually, so this will not be an issue if they continue this practice.