Team Update: Drive Team Placement in Playoffs

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Here is a thought: if you are an alliance captain, how much stock are you putting into HP placement? Do you want the 2 HP to be next to 2 station, 3 HP next to 3 station, and your HP running some tactical function like the 2011 HP not at the slots? You could even say there might be an opportunity if the 2 and 3 HPs are similar enough to the 1 HP that your 1 HP could be coached up on helping to coordinate 1 Drive Team while 1 Coach operates as a field marshal of sorts, understanding and accepting some obvious tradeoffs with this move.

It depends on the alliance captains robot. If they are a slot feeder, they will have their trained HP at the slot. It's like 2013, you don't want just anybody feeding your robot.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

It depends on the alliance captains robot. If they are a slot feeder, they will have their trained HP at the slot. It's like 2013, you don't want just anybody feeding your robot.

I mean, teams that made their robots almost idiot proof w/ regards to catching a pass from an HP (from literal targets to software compensation to "just throw it in this large hole, you can't miss it) in 2014 were fine. You want someone who can tell your robot is properly aligned or within an acceptable range of degrees of the slot before they start opening the chute door, but the chute this year is so much slower than the 2013 chutes having a fast HP is almost not even a real thing.

You are making a tradeoff if you pull a familiar HP for the purposes of better coordination between teams, and I don't even know if it could be worth it yet. It's just something I'm going to simmer over for a bit.