The Paradox of Cycling

[Justin Montois]

Driver rhythm is extremely important in my opinion. KISS absolutely applies to strategy.

I think at this point most teams understand the concept of strategy before building. Teams are getting better at building within their means and understanding different limitations.

However, I believe most teams don't take into account match play in their strategy. It's easy to write down on paper numbers that show how many points a particular strategy should yield. But so often teams take the bigger number and make that their strategy.

Considerable time should be spent taking into account how much "randomness" your strategy may incur. As a drive coach, I always tend to favor the strategy that will allow my drivers to go out and do the same thing every time. This way they can get really really good at it.

For example, if you had a ground pickup, but cycled 90% of the time, how good will your drivers be the one time the coach tells them to pick up the discs off the ground in front of the goal. For most teams that don't have practice bots and practice fields, they aren't going to be that good at it simply due to lack of experience doing that task.