Question: Leaderboards/Team Rankings

[cjlane1138]

Originally Posted by BigJ

The ranking system during qualifications usually changes yearly -- even if win-loss-tie are weighted the same, often tiebreakers are completely different. Make sure to check the Tournament or Game sections (forget which off-hand) in the manual tomorrow for your answer.

Thank you! I was looking for more of a function to plug into but I guess they won't just "give" us that, I have to do some searching!

Originally Posted by Mason987

I have no idea on the algorithm and all of that stuff (pretty sure it changes game to game?), but I do know they post the standings on the USFIRST website under that particular event.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events

go to that link, pick an event, and there should be a row with a link to the standings. They update just like the ones in the pit, but no more running back and forth.

Thank you! We will do that this year

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

The algorithm is described in the tournament section of the manual. However, often the data to reproduce the results is not always available.

Most of that data isn't available except via the FMS twitter feed which isn't always reliable. If your scouting team has internet access to get the FMS twitter feed, you might as well look up the standings on the FIRST website, which are updated after every match.

Thank you for the information! This helps a lot! We are mainly just creating our own version of the rankings based on what we like the most, I was just curious for how they determine them!