The Plus-Minus stat in Lunacy

[JackG]

Indeed, one would be hard pressed to find a better practicable method of grading the Lunacy bots. OPR-type methods may or may not be as useful this year. Personally, I like the +/- method myself.

Originally Posted by Abwehr

Is this stat perfect? Of course not. <G14> will affect the stat, to be sure. And teamwork is not fully acknowledged (e.g. I push this bot into the corner so you can dump into it, but I have scored no points myself). But I think it might be the best - if not simplest - representation (along with Win/Loss records) to score the robots of Lunacy.

Notice the last sentence. Robots of Lunacy is the operative term there. This method would seemingly take no measure of scoring done by humans players. In this year's game, the scoring/shooting capabilities of a team's HP may turn out to almost as important as those of the robot.

One possible way to account for this is to have the scouts track one trailer per person. Then, they could count the number of balls/points scored by each source. Putting the six sheets together should give plenty of data on which to base any metrics.