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Yet another scouting app

I whipped up a scouting data collection app for team 2512 (The Daredevils) that they used with some success at the Northern Lights regional. I think you'll find this one to be a bit different than some other scouting apps released heretofore.

It's a Windows 8.1 app, that's probably different enough. You can get it here: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en...0-e07b769422f1

It records different information than other apps I've seen. During build season, the strategy/scouting group got together and decided that traditional measures like recording 10 point goals, 1 point goals etc. was going to be nearly useless. After all, only one robot in an alliance needs to score a 10 point goal and the number of 10 point goals is meaningless in and of itself.

In addition to recording that specific events happen, the app can differentiate between attempts and successes. If your 5 10 point goals came on 27 shots and took a total of 107 seconds to accomplish you may not actually be a powerhouse. On the other hand, if your robot can manage a floor pickup in 3 seconds with 95% success rate and can perform a robot to robot contact pass in 4 seconds with a 90% success rate you may have an awesome robot for playing a specific role in an alliance.

After you've used the app to record a robot's performance, you end up with about 90 columns of data that the Daredevils imported into tableau for analysis. There's also a second file that much more detailed information but not in an easy to export format feel free to make of it what you will.

I'm attaching the scouting data from the week 2 Northern Lights regional. There were some bugs (since fixed) in the app that caused bogus timing events in some cases, so where you see robots taking negative 5 seconds on average to throw a ball over the truss for example, you can ignore that in the sample data and you shouldn't see it in any new data.

Yeah, I realize the season is half over, but what the heck, I can share.
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File Type: xlsx MNDU2-summary.xlsx (166.8 KB, 64 views)