FMS final scoreboard design

[Caleb Sykes]

I'm trying to understand why the scoreboard does not differentiate disc points scored in TELEOP and disc points scored in AUTO.

To the best of my knowledge, the AUTO discs and TELEOP discs are counted separately by the field crew after each match in order to determine final scores. Moreover, the FMS apparently already records each alliances AUTO points for every match because each team has their cumulative AUTO points as a tiebreaker for seeding.
There is clearly enough space to include 2 (or even 3) additional scoring partitions if FIRST so chose to do so.

The only reason that I can think of is that FIRST does not believe that people are interested enough in the AUTO score. The simplification of scoring to 3 categories (DISC POINTS, CLIMB POINTS, FOUL POINTS) keeps the scoreboard looking clean-cut.

For me, I would love to see more information after each match. Also, seeding is dependent on the team's cumulative AUTO score as the second sort, so this information can be the difference between a team being seeded 3rd or 10th. I don't think that this is too much information, especially since penalties did not occur in most (I think) matches.

just for fun, here is a final scoreboard from this year and a paint version of the added division.