How much do you design before kickoff?

[Allison K]

1) How much design work does your team do before kickoff?
2) How detailed are your designs (Sketches, Scaled Drawings, Completely CADed out, etc.)

I can think of plenty of advantages to working on designs in the off season, but it seems like some teams get rather attached to a design that they worked on in the off season, and are determined to use it even if there may be a better fit for the game. I know there must be teams that have overcome this obstacle. There's constantly amazing designs being posted here on CD, and when competition rolls around theres still something new and innovative out on the field.

If you're on a team that does do a lot of designing before kickoff how do you avoid getting attached to one. Do you just have a whole bunch of designs ready so that no matter what your particular strategy entails you have one that you can use?

Sometimes it seems almost advantageous to be a rookie team with no experience. We don't have any previous designs to be attached too.

~Allison