What happened in Curie???

[Mr. Lim]

Team 188 had one of our most concerted scouting efforts in our team's history this year. We individually tracked every ball shot and missed/scored by every team, separated by both their robot and human players. Here are a few interesting numbers they found on Friday night. These are stats up to Friday night only, and reflects what teams use to construct their preliminary pick lists. Of course things often change Saturday morning, but here goes:

Actual Team Points Scored per Match (Robot and HP Combined)
(teams in bold were involved in the eliminations)

175	45.8
1622	42.8
1771	39.9
188	39.4
79	37.1
254	37
341	36.4
217	35.6
1806	33.2
27	33.2
816	32.5
287	32
329	31.6
399	31.55
141	31.4
68	31.2
190	31
346	31
245	30.8
1	30.4
2039	29.6
271	29
75	28.8
70	27.4

19/24 is by no means cause for panic...

Here are the robots that were selected outside of the top 24 and some notes as to why I would have put them into the eliminations:

1747 - last pick made during alliance selections, shot and scored 10 balls in last match on Friday showing big improvement, exceptional drive team, strategy, and scouting - I asked our own scouts to make note of this team - an absolute pleasure to work with - demonstrated excellent teamwork and communication in our match with them

375 - ranked 5th in standings at end of qualifications

668 - robot scored 27 balls in their first qualifier match, heavy defense played on them the rest of the qualifiers

247 - stats couldn't capture the effectiveness with which 247 pinned other teams and allowed alliance partners to score while pinning the opponent, deadly effective alliance partner

2185 - never shot a single time and never preloaded once and that was a GOOD thing, human player shot 55%, played some of the most impressive defense I've personally come across this year, stopped us from winning GTR a few weeks ago, pinned us for 1:50 during our 2nd qualification match, shut down several of the biggest gunners in Curie during the eliminations, won two regionals this year doing exactly the above

If you want my personal opinion, I thought the teams that participated in the eliminations were top notch. I could make an argument for any of the teams that were not bolded and left out in my list above, but the reasons why the robots below them were chosen are compelling enough. Unfortunately, some of the top scorers will get left out. It's happened to us plenty of times in the past, but you play the game as hard as you can, and hope that the teams in picking positions do their scouting, and if you're doing something that won't show up on the stats, make sure you let the decision-maker on the top teams know exactly what you're doing.