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Re: How to use FRC Events data to determine gear ability

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Originally Posted by ngreen View Post
This is just an idea between solely using API data and counting gears with scouts. I wonder a little if the FMS system could provide timestamps with rotors scored to facilitate a gear rate calculation.
I had this same idea a few weeks back, and sent a request to FIRST HQ. I was told the request was forwarded to the Engineering department, but haven't heard anything else.

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First Name: Caleb
Last Name: Sykes
Email Address: calebsyk@gmail.com
Area of Interest: FIRST Robotics Competition Questions / Comments:
To whom it may concern,
My name is Caleb Sykes, I am a mentor for FRC team 4536. I am planning to use data provided by the FRC Events API (http://docs.frcevents2.apiary.io/#) to create team performance statistics and match predictions this year. This API is an excellent resource, and I really appreciate having it available.

One of the issues I expect to run into this year is accurately determining how many gears are scored in each match. I anticipate that the number of placed gears will not be recorded each match, and hence will not be available from the API, although I would love it if I were wrong. I expect the API to record the number of rotors which are spinning at the end of each match, and this will indirectly provide me some information on the number of gears that were placed. I was wondering if it would be possible for the API to, in addition to providing the number of scored rotors, provide timestamps of when each rotor begins spinning. I think it is possible the FMS already records this information, in which case exposing it to the API would be very plausible. These timestamps could be used in many different interesting ways to determine how good teams are at scoring gears, and would hopefully not require much effort on your part to implement.

I would really appreciate it if the API exposed this information, or something like it, in order that better statistics could be generated.

Thank you for your time,
Caleb
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