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View Poll Results: Will you use paper/whiteboard, a palm-pilot, or something else?
Paper/whiteboard 15 19.23%
Palm-pilot/laptop 25 32.05%
Don't know. 38 48.72%
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Re: POLL: Will you be using a scoring aid?

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Originally Posted by Ogre View Post
Why would the coach look away less?
If anything they'll look away more, inputting information. If the coach has no strategy aid then they don't have to look away, ever.


The coach would have to look away less for a palm device than for the paper/pencil route. Lets face it... Scoring in this years game is not going to be very fast paced, to pick up a tube, go to the proper place on the rack, and score the tube, you will take *at very least* 15 seconds. With the coach having to look away for maybe 2 seconds, not much will happen when they do. The machine would obviously be more accurate at tabulating score than a human, and that will be very important to this years game. With all of the rows/columns, any human, even a "real coach", who is supposed to be counting rows and columns will miss things that will lose their team the match.

Think of it simply:
All that guy with palm-pilot has to do is tell the computer where the tubes are being placed, the computer does ALL the tabulating. The coach then relays the information to the drivers.

Guy with paper has to mark down tube locations, try to identify all rows and columns, count the number of tubes in each row and column, and multiply in their head to find the score. At the same time he has to try to predict the highest possible scoring next move. Once he *thinks* he has the correct move, he has to relay it to the drivers.

Guy will no scoring aid has to do EVERYTHING in his own head.



EDIT: The chances of a palm OS crash while running as simple a program as this are about the same as the coach having a seizure in the middle of the match.
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