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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
I like your method for match prediction, but fail to see the use. Could you enlighten me as to how and why 20 uses this data and match prediction to gain an advantage? Or is it all for fun statistics?
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I'm not going to speak for team 20 as to why they do it, but I shall tell you why my team does.
We scout the same way team 20 does, with 6 scouters each scouting a different robot each match. You never want to biased when scouting as it can throw off the data. They then turn in the standard scouting sheets to our person inputting the data into our Excel scouting program. It takes the data we collect and produces ranks and the like depending on how much a certain aspect (i.e. scoring ability, defense ability, etc.) is "weighted". The program is able to be easily customized each season to function according to the game making it great for each season with some tweaking.
Anyways, it is very sophisticated (sheets for separate teams, matches, etc.) and we use it to predict the upcoming matches and also for potential alliance members. Kinda for fun, but also to see which robots are the "game changers" in a match. If you know the game changers in a match, you know if you have to defend them, stay away from them, or ask your teammates to try a different strategy if you believe it will help the alliance win.
It is a very reliable system and I believe it was 95% accurate this season in predicting the matches very good at ranking the teams once tweaked right. Thank you scouters! A good scouting system can win you the regional! (It also gave some of our team members something to do if the were not cheering or working on the robot.)
By the way, I can't really explain the specifics as to what it does because I did not make it and do not have access to it right now. I believe it uses the macros feature utilizing some 1500+ lines of code or something like that...