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Tasty metrics!

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That looks great! Will you and your team be at BAE Granite State? If so, I'd love to see what you have developed and compare notes with what we have developed. What tool are you using to do the calculations and display the graphs?

Thanks!

Steve

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Thanks!

Thanks! Yup, we'll be there! Yeah, I'd be interested to see what you came up with too. The application was done in Flex [ sorry iOS :( ], It allows me to move all of my processing onto the client side which helps to cut down on server costs also it cuts development time in half, which helps me to deliver solutions faster. Also it lets me do some pretty complicated processing, a new picture will be posted here soon showcasing this. Where OPR is nice, I though it would be interesting to see a team's contribution match by match. So I created a little algorithm to do just this.

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We will probably, at BAE, still have our scouting done via web forms on smartphone/mobile devices, and then processing the data locally on my laptop. (darn job getting in the way of me spending the 100 hours or so I need to finish this the way I want!) Graphs and analysis will be displayed using DHTML- or Flash-based dashboards. My plan is, however, by the time we get to our week 3 regional, the database and all the calculations will be done on a Linux server and the dashboards will all be iOS based. We have 2 iPads now, and several people have iPhones and iTouchs as well.

I messed around with an algorithm to calculate a team's contribution by match during Lunacy, but could never get it to work consistently. I had a huge matrix to do the calculations, based on a modified BCS algorithm, but it would only give me good data when every team had been in the same number of matches - so I gave it up! Last year was a whole lot easier to calculate! I would love to see your approach to that calculation sometime.

See you at BAE!

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Basically I only look at qualification matches, and to account for teams playing in different # of matches, I take the number of matches of the team your looking at -1 and set that as the max # of matches. Then I go through all the teams you play with. and calculate their total score over those n matches. based on this I get a total score for the alliance at that event, and then based on each teams ratio of that total score I find their contribution to that match. Averaging a team's contribution to each match, I estimate their expected contribution to the next match.

I also do the same for the opposite alliance, to calculate the teams expected spread and points allowed

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Looks good! I'll take a look at this. Thanks!