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Unread 11-02-2014, 20:55
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Re: Web-Based Crowdsourced Scouting App for 2014

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Originally Posted by GarrettF2395 View Post
A few ideas come to mind for this.

1) an "Only plays defense" button on the last scouting page.
Yes this could be done in the comments, but as a drive coach, I'd like to be able to easily sort the teams that are only defensive to help with alliance selection.

2) include a "Shots stopped" button to count how many times they directly caused an opponent to miss a shot.

3) a defensive rating scale that would allow the scout to rank them between 1 and 5 on how good their defense was. Their average rating would be displayed on their profile page.


Now for other suggestions.
1) Aiding drive teams in determining their strategy would be a big help.
If each teams profile page could have their percentage of made shots, trusses, catches, etc... That would make it easier to determine what your partners and opponents are capable of.

2) Knowing what zone each robot usually stays in during a match could be beneficial information for determining strategy.

3) A sorting system that would allow someone picking an alliance to easily select traits they want in a partner and then ranks all robots at that regional in a list which is based on those traits. (This would be amazing!)

4) A pick list page where teams can store their list of teams they want for alliance selection. This would need the ability to cross off teams that have been picked by someone else.

I would love for our team to use your web page during our regional! I'm just worried that due to a potential lack of internet access, the system won't work as well as intended. Some way of having this run off-line for short time periods would be amazing.

Keep up the good work, we're very appreciative of teams that make stuff like this available to teams who don't have the resources.
Thank you for the response and the suggestions! We are on a bit of a time crunch but I will take as many into consideration as possible.

For ideas:
1, 2, and 3 would all be fairly easy to implement, I can definitely do that

Other suggestions:
1. percentages of made shots and other similar statistics are going to be on the team profile pages eventually, I will be sure to add those specifically

2. Do you think comments are sufficient here? I could add a text field or something.

3. That's a bit more complicated - but we're trying to implement such a system. Stay tuned

4. perhaps... unfortunately there are other things that we have to prioritize more for the time being...but we'll see.

The offline thing would be amazing, and there's now an android API that I believe lets you embed webpage-like objects and basically make an app off them. The only missing piece is a local database that pushes when desired. I will look into it.