Match Score Model
What your robot is actually worth in a match, from your own cycle times and your own game manual. Ranks every action by points per second and spends the match on the best ones first.
Inputs
One row per thing you can do. Take the point values from your game manual and the cycle times from a stopwatch, not from a guess. A cycle is everything: drive there, acquire, drive back, score, and be ready to go again.
A V5RC match gives 105 seconds of driver control. Lower it if you plan to spend the end of the match on something this list does not cover.
Nobody scores uninterrupted for the whole match. Time lost to defense, traffic, dropped objects and mistakes comes off here. Time a scouting sheet against a real match rather than guessing.
Added straight to the total. The autonomous value calculator works out what a routine is really worth once its success rate is accounted for.
Results
Scoring values
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Everything here depends on these being your game's.
Projected match score
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From driver control
—pts
Best value per second
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The action worth defending your access to.
Scoring time used
—sec
What runs out first
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Time means build a faster cycle. Supply means find something else to do.
Points left on the field
—pts
Where the points come from
Ordered the way a driver should spend the match: best rate first, until either the clock or the supply runs out.
| Action | Points/sec | You complete | Points | Share |
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How this is calculated
Every scoring action is a rate. Points divided by the seconds it takes is the only figure that lets you compare two completely different jobs, and it is usually the number that settles an argument about what to build.
rate = points ÷ seconds per cycle scoring time = driver time × share you are free completed = min(how many exist, scoring time ÷ seconds)With your numbers
The match is then spent best-rate-first: take as many of the highest rate action as exist or as there is time for, then move down the list. That is what a driver does when the field is open, and it sets a ceiling nothing else beats.
A high points-per-second beats a high point value
An eight point action on a twenty second cycle is worth 0.4 points a second. A two point action on a four second cycle is worth 0.5. The small one wins, and it keeps winning for the whole match. Chasing the big number is the most common way a fast robot ends up losing to a boring one.
What the limit tells you
If the clock runs out with objects still on the field, a faster cycle turns directly into points and rebuilding for speed pays. If you run out of things to score with time to spare, speed is worth nothing to you and the next point has to come from somewhere else: defense, a second scoring route, or the endgame.
Where this is optimistic
It assumes you always get to do the best available thing, which is what the free-to-score share is for. Set that honestly. It also assumes cycles are independent, so it will not model a mechanism that gets slower as a hopper empties, or a route that gets shorter as the field clears.
Sources & assumptions
Match timing is published:15 seconds of autonomous and 105seconds of driver control.
Point values and cycle times are yours. This page ships no scoring data for any game, because a scoring table copied from a website goes stale the moment the manual is updated and there is no way for the page to know.
- V5RC Override Game Manual v1.1 (2026-27) — checked 2026-08-17
- Spartan Design — Override manual summary — checked 2026-08-17
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