Floor pickup Vs. feeder station

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by BJC

This is an interesting discussion; Let's add some math.

Assumptions:

[i]-the “floor pickup” robot is a robot that can score 42 points in auto (under pyramid) or 30 points (from midfield) and can hang in 5 sec for 10 points.

-the “30 point hanger” is a robot that scores 18 points in auto and can hang in 15sec for 30 points.

That's assuming those are the only types of robots.
Obviously those are going to be common and effective, but you also have teams like 1986 with Pickup+Climb 30
I also think that your ground pickup bot could score even more if they got fed a couple discs fed across the field to them by either the third bot or the 30 Point Hanger.
It'll be interesting to see what other combinations teams come up with as we go into week 3 and beyond.
Some teams are looking at a full court shooter- usually a feeder station bot- with a bot playing counter-defense which could be a powerful strategy as well.
I think 2168 King-Tec did that, but I only heard that through word-of-mouth as I wasn't watching their webcast.
Anyway- cheers to strategy!