The Great Database

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Spatel7793

I mean, its not all about statistics, sometimes its about how you can cooperate and how you improvise.

Right, and as I said above, I don't wish this to replace actual experience. There's a movie that comes to mind called "Left of the Curve" that deals with this same concept. The baseball scouts all were riled up about one prospect because of his numbers, but one of the old men scouts who didn't just use a computer knew from observation that he couldn't hit a curveball.

I'm in no way in support of numerical data replacing actual experience or observations, I just feel like having such a resource could be beneficial as a secondary resource to go back and look at, with the primary being upfront observations. This list will likely only be the most useful during the first round, not the 2nd round.

The purpose of this is to have a compiled list of statistics to help as a secondary source for scouting and primarily to be used before a match to look at whether your alliance is more offensive, defensive, and which robots to aim for when defending.

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

This is a very interesting idea. A few details we should hash out first:

1. How are we going to submit/store the data?
2. Who will be in charge of maintaining the data?

If we make a few gross estimations (and correct me if these are too gross):

• 78 regionals & districts
• 75 matches per event
• 6 teams per match

Then we can estimate that we'll have something on the order of 35,000 total entries.

We definitely can start with a shared google doc (though overtime that would definitely be much too short. We can compile on event per spreadsheet and keep all of the event spreadsheets in the same folder.