paper: Aluminum Falcons (FRC2168) 2011 Scouting System Ver 1.1

[jwfoss]

Alright Everyone, Hot off The Keyboard... Just in Time for Week 5 Regionals

Update Ver 1.6
- Fixed Scoring Error
- Added Comments Section Into Data
- Fixed Minibot Plot
- Made Data Input Easier

Thanks for all the input we've got on over the last four weeks. A special thanks to Matt Ellis for taking the time to begin implementing some new ideas.

While I was at SBPLI I was thrilled to find out that the #1 seed, 1626 was using our system, and went on to win the event. Any other success stories out there? Thanks again, and as always please let us know what you think.

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

Alright Everyone, Hot of The Keyboard... Just in Time for Week 5 Regionals

Update Ver 1.6
- Fixed Scoring Error

I like the new data entry. I noticed a bug with the new version scoring. It doesn't award logo bonuses for rows including Ubertubes. Also, the U and UB are formatted red instead of yellow an blue. Again I dont think anyone would miss the logo bonuses if you took them out

[jwfoss]

With all updates things get mixed up. Thanks for the quick check, we are correcting this right now, will post up a 1.6.2 when we get it working properly.

1.6.2 Up and Running, sorry about that!

[rocpe]

Guys,

Falcon Robotics FIRST Team 1626 did use the software at SBPLI. We ended up the top seed and the software showed our top pick as the 21 seed Team 229. We went with it and couldn't be happier. You guys rock along with 229 and 375!

See ya in St. Louis!

[avanboekel]

Great data input updates! There are still a few things that I think should be changed for later versions...

1) In the data analysis tab, it would be great if we could sort by minibot rank. As is, sorting by minibot average doesn't give us a good idea of how good the minibot actually is. Weighting a 'did not make it' or 'no attempt' as a 5 should make it easier to sort the good minibots from the bad.

2) For data input, it would be faster to type 1, 2, 3, or 4 instead of 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th for the minibot place. It would also be nice to see some sort of change in the input for 'did not make it' and 'no attempt'. Maybe changing them to 'dnf' (did not finish), and 'na'.

Again, thanks for all of the effort put forth towards this scouting program!

[jwfoss]

Hello all, even though The Aluminum Falcons are not going to Championships we have worked out a special edition of our scouting system.

Championship Edition
- Now Contains selectable team lists from Championships
- Only able to enter real teams in your division
- OPR from Ed Law's System from previous regionals included
- Added some metrics: Manuverability and Minibot Time
- Made some edits to make the overall system better
- Posted a Fully Unprotected Sheet, we suggest not changing anything!

I will personally be in St. Louis and would love to stop by and talk about the system, it would be great if there was at least one team in every division using the system. Please let me know if you are planning to use it, your team number, and the field you are on and I will stop by to talk!

Thanks and good Luck at Championships!

[avanboekel]

2338 will be using this system at nationals. We are in Newton. Hope to see you there!

[MysterE]

3337 is going to be using it in Archimedes. Already have the 1000 copies of the sheets for our scouts to use :-p

-D

[ahollenbach]

Great stuff!
Is there any way that VBcode could be unlocked as well?

[Debbie]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

Any other success stories out there? Thanks again, and as always please let us know what you think.

We have been using your system at all of our competitions. It has gotten us through 2 districts and MSC! We love it. Teams we shared info with loved it! Your updates are great! Thanks for posting this and sharing your hard work. We used it to select picks in both of our districts and to watch our performance at states compared to others since our match schedule was very tough and it was helpful to see that our bot was still performing well!!! We plan to use it on Archimedes . If any other teams on that field are using it, maybe we can combine efforts.. 3 scouts from each and share the data... or compare our scouters accuracy...

Thanks again and please pass our thanks on to your team!