[EWCP] Presents TwentyFour -- An FRC Statistics Blog

[KrazyCarl92]

Floor pick up is an interesting debate this year. We decided that a reliable floor pickup would make a potential 24 point auto extremely easy, and still leave the possibility for improvement. So that's 6 points*robot accuracy advantage for floor pick up. We also estimated that in a match where the floor was littered with discs, we could expect to score an average of only 5 points*robot accuracy more in teleop with a floor pick up than without. As you get to eliminations or championship, you may expect to see less discs on the floor due to teams hitting their shots at a higher accuracy.

However, you could either send your robot or an alliance partner to the feeder station to send 12-20 discs down to your end at the beginning of the match so as to litter the floor with discs on purpose and very quickly. So if you have 2 otherwise equal robots: 1 with good floor pickup, 1 without, I expect to see a maximum score difference of 11 points, barring any crazy 5-7 disc autos (okay, 5 isn't that crazy). That makes a good floor pickup approximately equal to an additional climbing level, if used strategically.