Favorite 2014 Robots?

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

973 read the game very well, better than almost anyone, and fielded a robot that could play any role but particularly excelled at the backcourt. They seemed to be the only team that really figured out how to use a goalie pole effectively, at least in the first weeks of competition. I think they built the perfect utility robot.

973 is one of my favorites too this year. 67 and 2481 were very good, but in some ways 973 was the key to that alliance winning their division. Their goalie blocker led to the opposing alliance making only 1.56 autonomous shots against them. In all other matches, the same alliances made 2.87 shots per match. That 1.31 difference was significantly greater than 1114's and 469's (the two other teams with a large enough sample size).