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Re: iPhone App Released - FRC Tracker

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Originally Posted by Fletch1373 View Post
thanks for this tom... it fixed the issue I was having... A couple questions though... Have you thought about a way to calculate the BGP value if the alliance had more penalties than goals(it would normally result in a negative BGP value according to your equation)... also, has FIRST mentioned if they will be fixing this issue for this weekend's regionals?

thanks a ton!
--Fletch

I'd just like to add that I'm using your app on my iPhone also
Yeah, that equation doesn't tell the whole story since the score isn't allowed to go negative. In that case, you could just assume the BGP was zero, as it wouldn't change the seeding calculations. As it happens though, I don't think that occurred with any of the 43 tweets I couldn't fix, all of which had positive scores. There were some tweets that showed negative goals or a negative penalty, which the FIRST folks suggested was likely a field hardware error that was fixed manually by the refs and scorekeeper.

I believe FIRST will fix the tweets for week two, but the update to FRC Tracker that hit the store a few hours ago will automatically detect tweets that look like they're in the broken format and fix them.
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