Human Players - Analyst

[Bill_B]

I have not made an actual count of this situation, but I have seen quite a few pictures from the early competition like this. they show the drive team and coach all looking up, presumably at an attempt to hang a tube. This is a waste of eye-power. There must be something else important going on on the field. At the very least the coach should be watching traffic or scouting for the next tube.

I mention this here in analyst discussion to offer something else they could do - remind players and coaches to play, not watch, the game.

[Koko Ed]

I have seen many teams don't understand the role of the analyst at all and have even sent the extra human player away or just let them wander around aimless around the field. If nothing else teams should be making sure they stay in the driver station area and staying out of the way. They may not have any assignment to help but teams should at least be making sure that unassigned human players are not doing anything to hurt teams chances of winning either.

[MaxMax161]

I've seen a lot of analysts doing a whole lot of nothing, there has to be a way to make use of this extra set of eyes, legs, ears and mouth. I think the team that can train an analyst to fulfill this unknown role of sorts is going to benefit from better robot to robot communication and is going to step up the alliance's game play.