OFFICIAL IRI RULE CHANGES

[martin417]

Originally Posted by Jon Jack

I don't think the G14 removal will have much effect until the elimination matches. There are still going to be many teams mindful of ranking points and won't go out and slaughter opposing alliances.

However, once we hit eliminations, I expect this is make quite an impact and we'll probably see at least a match or two break 151 (the high score which has stood since Week 1).

While some teams may elect to score on themselves, I expect that the inaccuracy of the real time score will keep that practice to a minimum (remember, we saw as much as 70 point swings from real-time to final score).

And most people seem to misunderstand the ranking system. Point differential has no bearing on ranking score, only the losing alliance's score. IE: if your alliance wins 200 to 35, it is no different than winning 36 to 35 from a RS standpoint. In either case, you will receive 35 ranking points for the match, but if you are leading by 100 points, you will feel much more confident as the clock winds down that it might be OK to score on your own trailer.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by martin417

While some teams may elect to score on themselves, I expect that the inaccuracy of the real time score will keep that practice to a minimum (remember, we saw as much as 70 point swings from real-time to final score).

Do you have a match in particular with that swing? 70 points seems really unlikely unless someone missed an entire trailer of balls, or 3 Supercells.

[sdcantrell56]

The 70 point swing match was one that occurred at Palmetto during qualifications. We were only officially winning by 10 points or so and when the final score was put up we were up by ~70 points. The real time scoring is definitely unreliable, particularly to have a rule based on not outscoring your opponent by too much.

[Jon Jack]

RTS isn't the only way to tell how you're doing. You can tell my how full your trailers are vs. your opponents trailers.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Jon Jack

RTS isn't the only way to tell how you're doing. You can tell my how full your trailers are vs. your opponents trailers.

But its harder to look at all 6 in this game w/o losing focus on the match itself. =/ Coach's responsibility or the drivers'?

[Jon Jack]

That would be the coach's job...

It's not like you're trying to take accurate ball counts, you just use the fill level of the trailers as a visual cue.

Ex: If I have one full trailer and two empty trailers and my opponent has two 1/4 full trailers and one empty trailer then I'm probably losing the match...