Re: The 2056 Streak has ended!
 

Are we only counting the teams that won with 2056 during the streak? I don't see 910 and 4920 on here, even though they won this year's Windsor Essex Great Lakes Regional with 2056. Should 2056's future winning alliance partners (of which there will be many :D) get to have an OP Number of 1?

EDIT: Also, if we are counting division wins, we have to take into account 1625, 3138, 330, 492, and 3944.

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Let's count any event where the TBA API says "official: true". This includes Regionals, District, District CMP, and CMP Divisions. Sound good, Richard?

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And 1114 and 4334. Some of us like to forget that 2012 Einstein actually happened, but they were there.

Re: The 2056 Streak has ended!
 

Yes-- every team that had won with 2056 has OP Number = 1, or a fraction if they have multiple wins.

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D'oh!! Can't believe I forgot that! Those Archimedes finals still count as the most intense matches I've ever seen in person!

Just for fun, I did an OP Number analysis of the teams I've been on. This is manual; I can't wait to write an algorithm myself to calculate OP Numbers, or wait for some awesome student to do it.

Team 67 has an OP Number of 2:

1.) 67 won the 2009 Cass Tech District Event with 217.
2.) 217 won the 2011 Finger Lakes Regional with 2056.

Team 3322 has an OP Number of 4:

1.) 3322 won the 2012 Livonia District Event with 1023.
2.) 1023 won the 2015 Bedford District Event with 548.
3.) 548 won the 2012 Newton Division with 118.
4.) 118 won the 2016 Greater Toronto East Regional with 2056.

Team 2930 has an OP Number of 3:

1.) 2930 won the 2015 Pacific Northwest District Championship with 1983.
2.) 1983 won the 2007 Las Vegas Regional with 254.
3.) 254 won the 2014 Waterloo Regional with 2056.

Someone get that algorithm going! First thing I would try is a breadth-first search starting at 2056 and first enumerating all the teams that have an OP Number of 1. Then capture all the teams that have an OP Number of 2, and increase the search depth again, repeating the process until all teams with finite OP Numbers have been enumerated. Then cache all the numbers somewhere. With only ~3000 teams to work with, the cache size won't be very large.

I would be interested to know how many "islands" there are - that is, groups of teams that have won events but don't connect to the "main" graph of teams that have won events together.

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Thanks for the literal LOL :)

Re: The 2056 Streak has ended!
 

If you seeded higher than them and picked them do you get greater than 1? How often does that even happen?

:D

They were truly great to play with! What a pleasure!

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Late to the party on this, but I want to congratulate 2056 for the streak.
This is an impressive feat and I think your team should be proud.

You graduated 9 Classes of students that never knew what it was like to lose a regional. That is astounding.

The good news is that the extra pressure is off and you can go back to being a normal team and not have the pressure of the streak weighing on you, trust me you'll appreciate it.

To my recollection we only ever met once on the field, opposite sides of Einstein Semi's 2010, and I remember nothing but class & excitement from your team.

Be proud of a streak that will likely never be broken.

Pete from 177

Re: The 2056 Streak has ended!
 

I suppose it's fitting that the team that really introduced me to the world of statistics within FRC would lead me to spend several hours on figuring out this problem. Two years ago, we were playing the Waterloo 2014 webcast in our lab, and it was the first regional I really remember watching. It was an event that not not just totally amazed me and got me really obsessed with watching other teams, but also introduced me to OPR, BBQ, and OP's streak. Thank you 2056 (among many other teams) for changing the way I saw FRC.

I'm definitely going to try and get one of these.

I used a rather convoluted combination of the TBA API, notepad/excel formatting and extracting, and c++ to figure this out. It's definitely not a particularly elegant solution, but I'm also still confused about how the API works (my dad helped me with the get requests but he just sent the entire string to a text file (it was literally 25 years worth of award data in a single line)) so I figured I'd just stick to what I know.

I checked a couple of random teams, but I couldn't find an easy way to verify everything so I'm not sure if they're all correct.

General steps:
1. Get event lists per year from 1992 to 2016
2. Use excel to extract the list of event codes, and keep the list of all of all the official events
3. Use the event code list to get awards list for each of those events (FIRST/TBA is missing quite a lot of award data, so any alliances at those events were not counted)
4. Use excel to extract the winning teams from those events and create a table of alliances, save as a text file
5. Copy a list of all teams from TBA, save as a text file
6. Use these two lists and the program at the bottom to compute OP numbers (below)


OP numbers:




My code:
(I didn't clean it up because I figured I should be getting back to homework, so it's definitely messy; sorry about that)