[TBA] 2016 Season Recap

[Eugene Fang]

That’s another season in the books!

2016 was a huge season for The Blue Alliance. Our volunteer contributors built some really awesome features this season, including:

• Complete rework of the Android app for faster loading
• Direct robot photo uploads from the Android app
• Detailed 2016-specific event statistics and match breakdowns
• The myTBA dashboard to easily follow your favorite teams
• Match and ranking predictions

If you enjoyed the Android app, be sure to leave a review!

Thanks to everyone’s contributions we reached a record number of people! Here are some numbers comparing Feb. 21 - May 1, 2016 to Feb. 20 - April 26, 2015:

• 1.97M total sessions comprising of 612K desktop, 584K mobile web, and 776K Android vs. 2015’s 983K total (417K desktop, 276K mobile web, 290K Android)
• 336K unique users (321K web, 15K Android) vs. 2015’s 228K (221K web, 7K android)
• 7.7M web pageviews vs. 2015’s 4.7M
• 4.6M Android screen views vs. 2015’s 1.3M
• 4608 peak concurrent viewers on GameDay vs. 2015’s 3039
• 7643 new user accounts created vs. 2015’s 3564
• 13,440 total accounts at the end of the season vs. 2015’s 5066
• 696K push notifications sent vs. 2015’s 320K
• 11.2M API hits vs. 2015’s 7.1M
• 8.8K new Android app installs vs. 2015’s 6K
• 17.5K total Android app installs vs. 2015’s 7.6K

Remember, The Blue Alliance is completely powered by volunteers. If you have new features you want to build or just want to get involved to learn and get experience with software development, we’ll be happy to have you and assist you along the way! The Blue Alliance is fully open-source, so join the mailing list and check out our GitHub, which has getting started guides for both the website and Android app. If you’re not sure where to start contributing, take a look at the hackathon ideas list for the website and for the app, or get involved with the first version of our iOS app which is coming soon. We have a lot of exciting ideas for the next year and will be posting details about a global hackathon later in the summer, which is a great way to start getting involved. You can also get involved by helping out with our crowd-sourcing data efforts which are coordinated via our Facebook group.

We’d like to thank FIRST’s API team who has made it so much easier for us to get official event results, as well as our sponsors VEXpro and Firebase who make the site financially possible.

Finally, thanks again to everyone who submitted videos and pictures, our data admins, and our Twitch mods.

Web contributors:

• Phil Lopreiato (phil-lopreiato)
• Greg Marra (gregmarra)
• Kunal Mehta (legoktm)
• David Thomas (synth3tk)
• Kevin Ji (mc10)
• Christopher Licata (cmlicata)
• Bryce Matsuda (brycematsuda)
• Nathan Walters (nwalters512)
• Ben Visness (bvisness)
• Christian Steward (csteward24)
• Nightpool
• Tyler Carter (chacha)
• DNGros
• Rselwyn

Android contributors:

• Phil Lopreiato (phil-lopreiato)
• Nathan Walters (nwalters512)
• Jerry Morrison (1fish2)
• SunnyRaj
• David Thomas (synth3tk)
• Michael Chinn (Mechinn)

iOS contributors:

• Zach Orr (ZachOrr)
• Brandon Dean (brandondean)