Statistics on missing practice matches?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

While we all have nice anecdotes about how our team or various powerhouses like 233 and 469 spend all practice day rebuilding their machines, nobody has really answered the first of the OP's questions. Does anyone have statistics that correlate missing practice matches with performance? My only guess is that this would come from teams who scout matches on Thursday, which not many do. I'd be willing to wager that the correlation would be fairly negative, overall.

Agreed.

At almost every event I've been to, there are usually a handful of teams that miss all and/or most of their practice matches due to some sort of robot issue or modifications. Usually, the only teams that are noticed as missing are those who are doing something 'major' or high profile to their machine - but I'd imagine there are just as many 'normal' teams missing matches to 'finish' their machine and/or to solve some problem.

I wouldn't write off a team just for missing their practice matches, but I would say it's safe to assume that they're not going to come out swinging in their first qualification match or two... I know we've had issues getting up to speed after missing our practice matches, either due to comms issues, or a lack of overall machine testing.