Role of Analyst for Einstein Teams

[ATH1RSTYM00SE]

Ok so the whole season everybody has been searching for a role for the analyst and there have been a few good ideas here and there. However my coach has been saying for a long time now that by the time you reach higher levels of play, teams will have an extremely effective use for the analyst that could potentially turn the tides of a match. It is by this statement that i am wondering what exactly did teams on einstein or even eliminations use their analysts for?

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by ATH1RSTYM00SE

Ok so the whole season everybody has been searching for a role for the analyst and there have been a few good ideas here and there. However my coach has been saying for a long time now that by the time you reach higher levels of play, teams will have an extremely effective use for the analyst that could potentially turn the tides of a match. It is by this statement that i am wondering what exactly did teams on einstein or even eliminations use their analysts for?

We didn't really use our third human player, to my knowledge.

-Nick

[AdamHeard]

For us, champ elims was his first time being Analyst versus human player.

He had a great seat for finals.

[Mr. Lim]

Periodically yell time remaining during a match, whether if any robot malfunctions, especially if minibots fall off robots.

[ATH1RSTYM00SE]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Periodically yell time remaining during a match, whether if any robot malfunctions, especially if minibots fall off robots.

before one match i told the kid who was going to be analyst to do that...
He ended up talking on his cell phone through the whole match

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Periodically yell time remaining during a match, whether if any robot malfunctions, especially if minibots fall off robots.

We weren't an Einstein team, but it seemed like this was the most useful role for the analyst. I never realized how much time I had spent watching the clock until someone else was doing it for me.

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by ATH1RSTYM00SE

before one match i told the kid who was going to be analyst to do that...
He ended up talking on his cell phone through the whole match

Good thing the refs weren't paying attention...

[jvriezen]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Good thing the refs weren't paying attention...

Depends upon whose side you are on... could be a bad thing the refs weren't paying attention...

[Jeffy]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

Depends upon whose side you are on... could be a bad thing the refs weren't paying attention...

No one likes red cards.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by ATH1RSTYM00SE

before one match i told the kid who was going to be analyst to do that...
He ended up talking on his cell phone through the whole match

If I was the coach I would have confiscated the phone til the end of the event.
He could have cost the alliance dearly doing that.

[Dylan Gramlich]

What we had are analyst do this year is keep track of time by yelling them out at certain points (which was already mentioned) as well as calling out the score difference between alliances, they would say "+10" if we were up by 10. That way our coach would be better informed when it came to different decisions on the field. The Robocoach that was used in 2008 performed similar tasks after their main duty.

[Chris is me]

Not an Einstein team by a long shot, but we had our analyst read the clock off and coach our alliance partners while our drive coach focused more on our own drive team.

I imagine for eliminations they would probably not coach our alliance partners.

[GCentola]

Originally Posted by Dylan Gramlich

What we had are analyst do this year is keep track of time by yelling them out at certain points (which was already mentioned) as well as calling out the score difference between alliances, they would say "+10" if we were up by 10. That way our coach would be better informed when it came to different decisions on the field.

I found that very helpful! Also, our analyst was a big help in off-field strategy meetings with other teams and such.