A statistical analysis of the "autonomous advantadge"

[Ken Streeter]

Winning the autonomous mode was a huge factor at the BAE Granite State Regional. In matches where our alliance won autonomous, we never lost the match. We also never came back to win a match where we lost autonomous.

However, we did have two matches which ended in a tie. (In one of the ties, we had lost autonomous and in the other there was no autonomous winner.)

It also became clear that a real key to winning the autonomous period would be using automatic camera-based targeting in order to be able to make high goal shots despite encountering defense in autonomous. After we finally got our automatic camera-based targeting working (not until the last qualification round match on Saturday morning) we didn't lose any more autonomous periods.