Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

For all of you scouting guys, the GDC just made your job a little bit easier. The field will track the implications <G14>and display it to the audience.

So now everyone will know which teams won their previous match by a large margin when they're up on the playing field.

If the number of teams affected by this rule is over 16.67% (1/6), then the odds are that each match played this year will be affected by this rule in some form.

And after quickly looking over scores from last year from a few random events, it looks like this rule will affect about 35-50% of all matches. Now while these numbers were based upon the post-penalty scores, it's quite possible that we'd see similar rates on pre-penalty scores.

These values were a bit shocking at first, but the more I look into it, the more I agree with basically "ignoring" G14 strategy-wise, and then just treating the extra balls you would have lost as "bonus" balls going into a match if you hadn't won by a 2x or 3x margin. Especially since you can only use them in the last 20 seconds, this essentially means they're human scored only (it will be rare that a robot will be able to get and score one of these in 20 seconds).

If the robots won't have much of a chance of scoring them in time, and if there isn't a good shot for the human player, the ball is worthless. Just a distraction. And if you're already ahead by a [significant] margin, then scoring these balls would only put you further into the hole for future matches.