[Alex Webber]

This year was our first year with our scouting program that our programmers created, that plugins in all of our stuff during a match, for each robot by pressing on an X-Box Controller!

Please note: This data is for each robot, not the alliance. We are ranking the best robots, soley by their robot, and not the chances of having a strong schedule or weak schedule. We can easily find the robots that stand out the best. For now, we call our measure JPR.

Step 1: Scouting in the Pits
We have a pre scouting program, go around in two groups of 2 people that know how to talk to other teams, and they fill in fields, and snap a picture of their robot. This sends it into a local MYSQL database, that is imported onto our scouting computer in our pit.

Step 2: Scouting the Matches
We have developed a match scouting program, primarily my responsibility and main contribution to the project. We have a rotation schedule of about 28 people, and break it up into groups of eight members. Each rotation is about five matches, and goes fairly quickly. Six of them press buttons on X-Box controllers, connected to a Winbook, with a master operator. At the end of each match, a SQL file is generated, and is exported to a flash drive. At this point, our 'runner' walks it down to the pit, and plugs it in to our scouting computer.

Step 3: Importing the Data
Next, our data is imported onto the MYSQL Databse on the computer, and our Leaderboard System, a fancy program to rank teams based off of our data refreshes with our newest data, into human readable forms.

Step 4: Alliance Selections
We can print off a human friendly charts and graphs and tables, visualizations with our data for our captain. We can find the best tote bot, the best ranked team that hasn't been picked. We are working on getting Tableau to import and visualize our data, immediatly. Tableau was included in our KoP this year.

Step 5: After Regionals
After regionals, we do some more analyzing of our data. We use the OPR's, CCWM's, Average Scores, DPR's, JPR's (our measure) and other measures to rank our teams. I hope to be releasing a cool visualization on my website for Greater Kansas City regional soon.

I will also be releasing a whitepaper + thread with my teams permission for more information about our scouting operations.