Shooting accurately is going to be a challenge that almost every team faces this season. 4607 wanted to be able to characterize the accuracy of our shooter in as scientific of a way as possible. We came up with the solution shown in the images below.
Basically the setup is comprised of $75 worth of golf tees, particle board with holes at 1" intervals, 1" thick foam board, a plywood backing and some brackets to hold everything together. The tees are pushed through the particle board into the foam.
The idea is that the board will start with all the tees “out”, and as we shoot at the board, the balls will push the tees into the foam. After shooting many shots from a static shooter setup, we’ll have a way to quantify our shooter accuracy for our shooter configuration.
This setup will allow us to try different shooter configurations that we can compare against each other in order to minimize the variation, and maximize the accuracy of our shots.
The particle board and foam slide on the churro that you can see in the 2nd picture. So basically when we want to reset we push the whole thing back and the tees reset by running into the plywood backing.
I’m sorry for the dumb question but could you explain this more? I’m confused as to how you record the shots and how the mechanism works in general.
Not if our shooter is working the way we want it to!
The goal of this is to give us a range of where our shots go! So while you can’t see exactly where the 2nd/3rd shot go, you can see the distribution of many shots which is valuable information.
Give me a few weeks and hopefully I’ll have something presentable
