BBQ FIRST Website Reveal

[MARS_James]

Ok i know BBQ and SAUCE but what is BBQ PDQ, BRIQUETTE and RIBS?

[Navid Shafa]

Any chance we can get a team rankings section for overall BBQ and overall BBQ by year?

[MrForbes]

842 has zero blue banners? I think there might be a few issues with BBQ....

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

842 has zero blue banners? I think there might be a few issues with BBQ....

This is actually the same thing that wilful pointed out earlier. I am actively working on this issue and have found the solution. The website will be updated to fix this very soon.

Thank you for pointing this out. I hate inaccurate data.

[OZ_341]

Very fun to see this data for each team. Must have been a lot of work.

Two banners are missing for 341. We won Philly Chairman's in 2003 and Chesapeake Chairman's in 2005, for a total of 20 banners.

Thanks!

[AdamHeard]

The 2005 FMS had issues and many results are missing.

Not the fault of the site maker...

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

Very fun to see this data for each team. Must have been a lot of work.

Two banners are missing for 341. We won Philly Chairman's in 2003 and Chesapeake Chairman's in 2005, for a total of 20 banners.

Thanks!

Thanks, it was quite the project.

After manually entering the data for that 2005 Florida Regional alliance, it seems like it will be quite another to keep manually entering data, however I will take note of yours and Libby's requests and when I find a more feasible method to do manual input, your data will be entered.

Also:

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Any chance we can get a team rankings section for overall BBQ and overall BBQ by year?

If you mean a teams rankings section by banners, then yes it will happen. For now, there is a way to access an all teams ranking:

1. Go to the Manual Calculator
2. Type in 1 and press Tab
3. Type 9999 and press Tab

Of course there will be a more visible version eventually.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Beaker

If you mean a teams rankings section by banners, then yes it will happen. For now, there is a way to access an all teams ranking:

1. Go to the Manual Calculator
2. Type in 1 and press Tab
3. Type 9999 and press Tab

Of course there will be a more visible version eventually.

Being able to see the full banner count list is cool, where as TBA Insights only shows the top of the ladder (without the ability to expand to the full data set). I look forward to the future additions you have in mind. Thanks for sharing!

[Beaker]

BBQ FIRST was down for a couple of days recently due to an error with my account. It's resolved now, but I had to create a new url for the website.

Here is the updated link: http://bbqfrc.x10host.com/

There have been a few updates, since I last posted. Check those out and as always, suggestions are welcomed!

[Navid Shafa]

So far the database seems to have been staying up to date, but it is currently behind on some of this week's cooking.

How does the updating process work?

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

So far the database seems to have been staying up to date, but it is currently behind on some of this week's cooking.

How does the updating process work?

According to the help section on the website, here's how it works:

Originally Posted by BBQ FIRST

The website uses data that is pulled from The Blue Alliance. On an offline server the data is manipulated and is later uploaded to the live website. During these data uploads the website may be down for 10 minutes, but these uploads ensure that information is displayed faster than recalculating every time a page is requested.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen

According to the help section on the website, here's how it works:

Then the real question is, how often?

[Jack S.]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Ok i know BBQ and SAUCE but what is BBQ PDQ, BRIQUETTE and RIBS?

In the top right hand corner there is a button labeled help. This button takes you to a page with information regarding the website, including the definitions of the various edible banner statistics. This button will be made more visible.

Here's the link:
http://bbqfirst.x10host.com/help.php

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by Jack S.

In the top right hand corner there is a button labeled help. This button takes you to a page with information regarding the website, including the definitions of the various edible banner statistics. This button will be made more visible.

Here's the link:
http://bbqfirst.x10host.com/help.php

This is very helpful. One suggestion to assist in gauging a team's on field robot performance would be to net out blue banners associated with Chairman's awards earned. You could label this measure "Hot Sauce" in keeping with your food-centric nomenclature...

[JesseK]

These stats ... make no sense. The ranking of the results attempts to find a level of comparative competitiveness based upon 10 seasons of data in a competition where the only thing which is guaranteed to last 10 seasons are the bigger investments a team has made in tooling, infrastructure or facilities.

The stats don't even take into account groups of teams which keep winning the same Regional, thereby inflating that event's BBQ-ness.

It seems to me like we'd get a more realistic picture by using the trailing 2-4 years of event data for a given event and year, rather than "for all time".