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to quote @jasonrohrer No. ▶ Their Full Post (It is really great)

I found it interesting how he treated the green bumpers as obstacles and not opportunities.

They cast shadows that are hard to get the pucks into

Yes, I read his post. My statement still stands.

Following up, since there’s interest. My initial calculation of the non-shadow direct-shot area in the 4-point zone did not account for the area consumed by one of the green discs that protrudes into the 4-point zone (boundary disc straddling into the 1-point zone). I also made a mistake when acco…

But you can move side-to-side; you don’t have to shoot from the center.

Might be, but even without an h-drive, you just drive not quite into the center and all of a sudden his lines aren’t accurate any more.

Yes, and it turns out that the center doesn’t even offer you the largest non-shadow direct shot (no bounce) area in the 4-point zone. This drawing shows another angle, which lets you reach 419 square inches. [Screenshot - 05132022 - 02:26:27 PM] And yes, you can move around to reach even more are…

I graphed out a bunch of possible shot spreads under the assumption that collisions are going to put some amount of discs in the adjacent zones. So, the assumption is that if you’re targeting the 3-pt, about half of the misses go into the 4-pt and half go into the 2-pt. If you’re targeting the 2-pt,…

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