Soccer AI

• He puts in variables to say who is receiving, closest, controlling and supporting. Is that good?
• Calculating the best support spot. He uses an evaluation function based on the position of other entities.
• Team States: attacking or defending
• Player States: wait, receiveBall, kickBall, dribble, chaseBall, returnHome, supportAttacker
• Other than that it's just an FSA.
• Goalie states: tendGoal, returnHome, putBallInPlay, InterceptBall
• It's also an FSA.
• A lot of the smarts come from smart low level behaviour.
• Methods like isPassSafe, canShoot, and findPass can really change the behaviour of the system.
• A poor canShoot function will either shoot all the time or never.
• Also note that super-human behaviour here (like perfect gun shooting or knowing things a player couldn't know via the team class) can make the AI seem unrealistic.
• Do you want to look through the math for isPassSafe(pg 177)?