Problem's with 2015…

[Loose Screw]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

While I agree with you in theory [1] in practice it doesn't quite work out. I watched a robot actively play defense on their partner in a few matches last weekend and it definitely hurt their average score. This robot was a toaster in the biggest sense of the word (incapable of scoring a point) and was simply getting in the way. It didn't help that they were ~4' long and had almost 0 control of their robot.

As for why my simulations didn't see it? Because I didn't want to deal with the flak for saying that, on average, probably 15-20% of teams are actually worth NEGATIVE points in that they do little more than get in the way of scoring robots.

[1] http://beyondinspection.org/post/108...-visualization

It's true that those teams exist, but they have always existed. Last year, for example, teams could slow down a match by holding onto the ball for a while, or dying. Those teams exist, and have about the same effect on both ranking systems (losing QP and lowering avg score), so we should not take them into account when comparing systems.