Twitter data anomalies

[Ed Law]

Ether,

Thank you for your effort to get the scores right. For people like me who lives on data, it is very important that the data is accurate. Otherwise, garbage in, garbage out.

The unreliable nature of twitter feed is one reason why I hesitate to use it. From what I understand, once the twitter is send out, it is out. You cannot retract it or update it. And we all know that many times scores are adjusted afterwards. That is why I only use the official data in my scouting database.

Now that FIRST is publishing the accumulated hybrid, bridge, teleop and coopertition points for each team in the Standing page, we have everything we need to calculate the OPR for each of them and the difference between overall OPR and OPR for hybrid, bridge and telelp is the foul for OPR. That is why I am not going to use twitter feed data this year.

However for future years, it is a good thing to work and improve the process so the data is more reliable. Again thank you for your effort.