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Re: Drive Team Configuration

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
we switched our drivers almost every round.
Not good. Not Not Not Not Not good.

The more a driver drives, the more practice they get. Our current driver and operator (Matt and Kitty) have driven in aprox. 150 matches, 130 of them together. They still have one FRC season left before graduating. They are very very good at operating the machine, and know how to communicate with each other. If your drive team changes in every match, they will not have the experience of a drive team of another team who doesn't change every match, so even with a better machine, the other team will still win.

There is a universal trend that shows that teams get better as they play at more events. While they make changes to the robots, most of this is because of driver practice.

Have you ever been to an off-season with mentor matches? Teams tend to perform worse when the mentors drive. At the MARC, we had an alumni driver (and he drove for two years in FRC), and our coach (Jim) as our driver and operator. They lost early on. With our regular operator and coach (and a different driver, who had about 2 hours of practice time) we won the event.
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