The Plus-Minus stat in Lunacy

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

I like the idea...+/- in hockey is a VERY useful stat that tends to say a lot about the team play of an individual player.

Where this could get confusing in scouting is just the simple act of counting the balls that are being scored. Even with 1 person per robot/trailer, I could see numbers being miscounted. This doesn't mean this stat shouldn't be used (I'm sure most good scouting teams will do this exact thing, not all will call it "plus/minus") I think its just worth noting that the numbers you count for this may not be fully accurate on some occasions.

The way I would envision it is that a scout would look only at the points scored BY a robot during the round. Counting the points in its trailer is probably easiest after the round, when the field reset crew is removing the game pieces.

And yes - there would be some margin of error. The hope is that it will be fairly slim compared to the amount of "good" information.