A statistical analysis of the "autonomous advantadge"

[Martinez]

Definately have to agree with everything Joel said. Its very difficult to say wether winning the match due autonomus mode is due to being a strong team, being on defense first or the 10 point bonus. I feel its a mix of all three, but there is definately a strong coelation. I kept track of stats of the semis at VCU and here is what I saw.

Matches in the semi both went to 3 while the finals went to 2. 5 out of 8 matches, the team that won auto also won the match. Of the other three, the winning auto team "lost" with one being a tie, one being a DQ, and one for the 10 point bonus on the ramp.

About the game, scores were rather low compaired to past years. I did not compute an average, but it would likely be around 30 with 50 being the high end and 70 being amazing. Most teams seemed to ether miss all their shots (in auto as well), hit a few while being marked, or scoring many quickly. Often the announcer went: Score.. score.. score, score. I would like to say that was very very helpful cause the camera was not always in a good angle to see what was happening.

edit: also, most teams missed the majority of their shots in automode. Teams take note... 1 point can often make all the difference wether it was 2 to 3 or 10 to 12!

There was very little scoring in the low corner goals, outside of auto. At VCU at least, a strong focus was on shooting and "jocking for position." Several times the corners were not well guarded, and I think a quick dump would have proved better both in terms of score and time off the clock.