[robocup-small] Comments & Suggestions from B-Smart

[James Bruce]

Beng Kiat Ng wrote:
>>4) Penalty Kick:
>>For the goalie, a PK is nearly impossible to save. We would recommend
>>the following change (inspired by ice-hockey and other leagues
>>rules):
>>The ball should be placed on the center mark, the attacking robot should
>>be behind the center line and the goalie inside the defense
>>area. When the PK starts, both robots can move the way they want, but
>>the goalie may not touch the ball unless the attacker touched it
>>first. The robots have 30 seconds to either score a goal (attacker only)
>>or shoot the ball out of the field. Other robots have to stay
>>outside of the field, or in the other half, during the penalty kick.
> 
> Penalty should result in a high scoring chance! That's also the case in
> human football. Moving the penalty spot to the centre mark would encourage
> teams to have very powerful kicker.

Well right now the goalie has no time at all to react to a fast kicker. 
  In human soccer the goalie has something like a 1/3 chance of a block, 
but against a good RoboCup team its essentially zero.  It would be nice 
if the spot came out at least a little bit.

Jim Bruce
CMDragons/CMRoboDragons