Possible Lower Scores on Einstein?

[Grim Tuesday]

I would hope that the teams planning on being on Einstein will have some sort of setting on their calibrations for "Brand New Balls". But I think you're right, it will negatively impact scores.

[Chris Hibner]

If the balls are all brand new, the scores should be good.

Shot repeatability is typically not a concern as long as the balls are close to each other in stiffness. Where teams have problems is when they start introducing new balls at the end of a competition, so you have a mix of brand new balls and very old balls. If every ball on Einstein is brand new, I think teams will roll their shooter calibration back to the "brand new" setting and everything is fine.

[who716]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

I would hope that the teams planning on being on Einstein will have some sort of setting on their calibrations for "Brand New Balls". But I think you're right, it will negatively impact scores.

At the granite state regional they put new balls in during eliminations and it really messed us up as we would shoot high so to fix this for championship we programmed a button on the controls to lower the speeds for the shooter.