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Re: Robot Status on Scoreboard

I think it would just make more audience members blame FMS for their robot problems, rather than fixing their robot.
You know what would be more useful for scouters, would be publishing the list many FTAA's keep that record what was found to be wrong with each robot. There are too many potential causes to give people even that FMS screen without knowledge of how it's to be interpreted as only one piece of the puzzle. Sometimes the root cause isn't confirmed until the wiring/code/mechanical systems are inspected after the match.

As it was, each of the events I worked had people coming out of the stands with "proof" that Blue station 2, or Red station 1 was obviously defective because they had a list of robots that had problems while they were in that station. Funny thing about bad statistics is they all thought a different station was at fault. I saw lots of posts here on CD using the same bad statistics to prove random theories.

At SBPLI our Lead Inspector got a copy of our robot failure list, so he could show people why their statistics were meaningless. They still didn't believe him, but they had no "proof" to fall back on.
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