The Life of a 2-Point Scorer

     Early on in the 2012 build season, our team decided our strategy would be to dominate the mid-level basket. My time in FRC has taught me that the strategy you choose is not nearly as important as it's execution. We decided this would be our strategy, and we would be the best at it. Were we the best? I'm not sure. But regardless of that, I decided to review our season from a numbers stand point and see what I could learn. The purpose of this post is merely to point out what strengths and some weaknesses that this strategy gave us. The best way to convey this is through the use of numbers. I watched closely all 44 matches that Team 340 played in. I focused on the number of baskets we scored. I didn't factor in any time dedicated to balancing or the point awarded from them. These numbers only discuss basket points.

Autonomous
In 44 matches we scored in autonomous 43 times. The one match ( Our 2nd match @ FLR) where our arm failed to go up remains a mystery. We had a perfect (10pt) auto mode 39 times. The other 4 matches we missed 1 ball. Our auto accuracy was 92%

TeleOp
In TeleOp, We scored 0 points 6 times due to various failures. Our top points output was 18 (Twice) while averaging 8 points (or 4 balls). This number was much lower then I expected, though mostly because we stressed the importance of balancing, especially the CoOp bridge. Our average accuracy in TeleOp was 95% This was almost exactly the number we said we had to achieve if this was going to be our strategy.

Alliance Contribution
After each match, I had our Auto score and our TeleOp score. Its not hard to use that information to gauge the contribution to our alliance. In our matches, Our alliances averaged 29 points. Our top contribution was 100% (4 times) and our lowest was 33%. Our average contribution was 64%.

Final Analysis
This was the first time since my involvement with Team 340 that our strategy was not the "obvious" or "ideal" strategy. Though we did not get picked at Championship, we had a successful season where we saw only 12 match losses.

If you have any questions, follow me @jmontois340 and ask away.

Build season is only 36 days away!

-Justin