Best way to estimate the best defense bot

[EricH]

You guys are almost all overlooking one thing (I've seen one mention so far). And this one thing could lose you the event.

Penalties.

Does the potential defense robot in question (whichever robot it happens to be) rack up their opponents' points from fouls or their alliances' points from fouls? If you have a potential defender that is constantly getting penalties, particularly "stupid" penalties, then they should probably not be very high on your list. Back when I was scouting, penalty points were given a weighting of -1 in our metrics to deduct "score" from that robot.

Now, if the robot takes a smart penalty, then you also want to note that. It means that they know that a 20-point foul is better than letting their opponent potentially get 50 points, for example.