Real vs. Theory, Week 0.5

[philso]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Fact: High Goals are hard.

We knew they would be. Small goal, big ball. Pretty simple math. A large majority of teams shouldn't do high goal ever. A missed shot is a capture killer in many cases.

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Yes.

Of 84 shots on the HIGH GOAL, only 47 (56%) went in.

I logged hits and misses that I could see on the screen or I could hear the announcer commenting on beginning at about the first match in the second round of the QF's. I am sure there are some that the announcer or I missed.

Of the misses, most were high/low or off to the side. One went in one side and out the other (a heartbreaker, I am sure).

My impression is that 20% of the misses, or less, were due to defensive action. I did not notice any that were outright blocked by a defender. For at least half of the shots, the robot was unhindered by defense and in some cases could be seen taking a few seconds to adjust its aim from side to side.

My guess is that at least half of the shots that I logged were taken by teams with cameras and LED rings installed. I do not know if they used vision tracking or were viewing the image on their driver stations.

There did not appear to be any robot that was able to score in the High Goal over 80% of the time. I noticed several instances where 3824 or 179 would score in the HIGH GOAL 2 or 3 time in a row then miss about as many. This is not to criticize these two teams performance, they were probably two of the best at scoring in the HIGH GOAL at this even.


It was a bit heartbreaking to see robots slide off the BATTER after power to their robot was cut at the end of the match.

It was also sad to see robots slowly descending below the top of the LOW GOAL after the end of the match or to see the robot stop with the front bumper above the top of the LOW GOAL but the rear appear to be a few inches below.

When I had the LiveStream on in a corner at work on Friday, I recall quite a few matches where YELLOW CARDS were handed out to teams for stepping over the DEFENSES. I did not track these to see if any became RED CARDS and what the consequences were. Since this does not occur during a match, does the team lose the points from the match that just ended?