2015 Arkansas Rock City Regional

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by Bochek

Just got the email that we're making the 16+hr drive. Can't wait!

My family has made the trip to your place. It's not terrible. Excited to see teams from Canada in Arkansas!

[ElvisMom]

Winnovation FRC 1625 is heading to Arkansas this year. Looking forward to seeing some old friends and making a lot of new friends!

[pwnageNick]

2015 Rock City Regional: Pre-Season Scouting Sheet

Over the past few weeks I've been slowly chipping away at making a pre-season scouting sheet for each event our team is attending. I've finally finished it up and figured I'd share it so others can use it as well.

Included in the sheet is basic team information (Team #, Name, Location, Years Experience), Attending Midwest (our other regional), 2014 Performance (Each regional seed and elimination finish, Championship seed and elimination finish with what division), and finally 4-Year Performance Statistics.

That last section is something I kind of created on my own. I know a lot of people have been using "BBQ" to look at a teams recent performance over a few years, but I didn't think that was a great way to look at it as that only accounts for regional championships and it also includes major awards, which don't always translate to performance on the field.

For these reasons I tried to make my own basic statistic. What I did was assigned point values for each finish in eliminations a team can have. They are as follows:

Regional Champion: 1.0
Regional Finalist: .75
Regional SF: .50
Regional QF: .25

Einstein Champion: 4.0
Einstein Finalist: 3.0
Einstein SF: 2.0 (also Division Champion)

Division Finalist: 1.5
Division SF: 1.0
Division QF: .50

Then, once you have a total for a season, you take the last four seasons and add them together. However, I gave multipliers for more recent seasons. This equation ends up looking as follows:

=(4*[2014 Total])+(3*[2013 Total])+(2*[2012 Total])+(1*[2011 Total])

I did this because I thought that recent performance is more important and pertinent to the current/coming season than say 3 years ago. However I still wanted to account for and look at long-term performance. I thought this provided a good balance.

Of course, this is not perfect, and it does not account for strength of event, where a team was picked (captain, 1st pick, 2nd pick, 3rd pick). I just wanted to be able to have a basic statistic that gave me a rough but reasonably accurate idea of how good a team has been over the past 4 years, and based on the trends of the past few years where they might be this year.

Let me know what everyone thinks of this. Also if you see anything that is wrong, let me know and I'll update the information. All of the data was pulled from TBA. Finally, if you think a piece of information should be added to the sheet that is easily and readily available, then let me know and I'll look into adding it.

Note: I thought about taking out the "Attending Midwest" section on this public version, but decided to leave it. I figured anyone who downloads it could change it and update the info for whatever their 2nd event is (and add more columns if they attend more than 2).

-Nick

[pwnageNick]

Here are the rankings I discussed above. Figured I'd post them here if people wanted to see them without opening the whole spreadsheet.

Originally Posted by 2015 Rock City Regional: Pre-Season Scouting Sheet

RANK____TOTAL ELIM CALC____TEAM #
1_____________32.5 __________1986
2_____________31.25_________16
3_____________20____________2481
4_____________18.75_________1625
5_____________18____________3284
6_____________17.75_________1732
7_____________16.25_________2451
8_____________12.5 __________935
9_____________11____________3847
10____________10.25_________1208
11____________10____________3937
12____________9_____________4522
18____________8.25 __________931
____________________________1939
15____________8_____________2352
____________________________2386
____________________________4500
18____________7.75 __________1706
____________________________2200
20____________6.75__________401
____________________________3061
22____________6.5___________4256
23____________6_____________3612
____________________________2616
25____________5.75 __________1108
26____________5.5___________4330
27____________5_____________4090
28____________4.5___________2424
29____________4.25 __________418
____________________________3160
31____________4_____________2395
32____________3.75 __________3931
33____________3_____________2773
34____________2.5___________3179
____________________________3337
36____________2_____________5153
37____________1.75 __________2040
____________________________2359
39____________1.5___________4329
40____________1_____________4490
41____________0_____________1209
____________________________1785
____________________________4745
____________________________4849
____________________________5006
____________________________5040
____________________________5178
____________________________5195
____________________________5259
____________________________5409
____________________________5437
____________________________5454
____________________________5551
____________________________5568
____________________________5656
____________________________5721
____________________________5729
____________________________5743

[TeamMagicSmoke]

We will absolutely be attending as well! We wouldn't miss it for the world!

[lanna.stars]

Teams 2386 along with 2200 and a new rookie team 5409 are excited to be making the 16+ drive from Ontario, Canada to Little Rock!

[vhcook]

I have a venue question that I hope is easy to answer. What size doors (standard building doors, big loading dock doors, etc) are we going to need to move our robot through for load-in or between the pits and the field?

Our robot's fairly tall, so we're trying to plan ahead to make sure the robot's transport-configuration height plus the cart height don't add up to trouble. There's nothing like having to pause for couch-maneuvering to make sure you don't clothesline the robot on the top of the door frame .

[Jefferson]

Originally Posted by pwnageNick

Here are the rankings I discussed above. Figured I'd post them here if people wanted to see them without opening the whole spreadsheet.

Thanks for putting this together. With all the great teams in this event, I had totally missed that Hilltoppers (1732) is coming down and Scream (4522) is coming back. Super excited!

This should be a really competitive event.

Also, that also attending Midwest column is pretty handy.

[Ryan Dognaux]

This event is going to absolutely stacked and awesome. We can't wait to play with so many great teams!

[Arpan]

FRC 3061 can't wait to attend arkansas this year! Driving 9 hours south is preferable to driving 9 hours north to Duluth. Brr.

Looking forward to competing with some of the best teams in FIRST. Man, is this regional stacked.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by vhcook

I have a venue question that I hope is easy to answer. What size doors (standard building doors, big loading dock doors, etc) are we going to need to move our robot through for load-in or between the pits and the field?

Our robot's fairly tall, so we're trying to plan ahead to make sure the robot's transport-configuration height plus the cart height don't add up to trouble. There's nothing like having to pause for couch-maneuvering to make sure you don't clothesline the robot on the top of the door frame .

Hey Victoria,

We are going to be driving the semi trucks right in the doors for set-up, so you will probably be fine.

Here is a photo gallery of the venue: Barton Coliseum

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

Hey Victoria,

We are going to be driving the semi trucks right in the doors for set-up, so you will probably be fine.

Here is a photo gallery of the venue: Barton Coliseum

Excellent. I was pretty sure we'd be ok, but it never hurts to ask. Sometimes the pits end up somewhere unexpected in a new venue.

I'm definitely looking forward to coming down this year. Looks like it'll be an interesting group of teams.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by vhcook

Excellent. I was pretty sure we'd be ok, but it never hurts to ask. Sometimes the pits end up somewhere unexpected in a new venue.

I'm definitely looking forward to coming down this year. Looks like it'll be an interesting group of teams.

Great group of teams! The pits and field are all together. It is a cavernous space. And over 7,000 very comfortable seats - not that most of us get to sit much!

[JDNovak]

Team load in will be through a dock door directly to the arena floor so there should be at least 10' of headroom.

[lanna.stars]

Hi all attending Arkansas Rock City Regional,

Our Canadian teams have secured a screening of Spare Parts locally and would like to extend the invite to other teams. We ask that they RSVP to Team 2386 (trojansfirstrobotics2386@gmail.com) by Friday February 27th with the approximate number of people as there is a limited number of seats available. All other information is attached in the poster.

We are looking forward to warmer weather in Arkansas next week!


Elana