Scouting 1251 style

[sebas2mil]

Hey everybody im part of the scouting team on 1251 the TechTigers

as one of the creators of the scouting software we have i have to say that i'm very proud of it because it really helped us come up with strategies and also we helped other teams look at their alience partners and also who they were playing against

the system works with a database that constantly gets updated with information about other teams

if anybody has any questions about scouting im glad to help or if you want to give me ur bots info i can add your team to the list of 1251

good luck
go TechTigers
team 1251

Sebas

[techtiger1]

Sebas did a great job on that at Ucf it worked very well. It uses a power ranking system to tell us which bots are the strongest and it very accurate. It predicted with all the input that swampthing and pink were the strongest robots there and it was right. Also ranked us third since we were the finalist allience captian. If anyone is interested in seeing it please ask.

[Jverdon]

I would like to see it, I am the scouting Captain for Team Fusion 364. Maybe you guys could post it so that other teams could use it also. Lookin gforward to seeing it.

[Shu Song]

I'm writing a database/scouting program for our team as well. Can you give me some pointers as to what language you used, what data structures and had functions your program had. Thanks!

[sebas2mil]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

I'm writing a database/scouting program for our team as well. Can you give me some pointers as to what language you used, what data structures and had functions your program had. Thanks!

well i did it with a teacher and he did most of the programming on it but the basic idea and some other things were mine
now he programmed it in Pearl which uses a lot of languages and combines them together

sebas

[sebas2mil]

just a little thing

the only way you can actually seeit now is if you send me your e-mail address and i can send you some of the print screens i have because the program is way too big to put online and theres also a database behind it helping it run it

sebas

[thoughtful]

I know this year our team will be using a more "Sophisticated" scouting program. My Scout team has produced a beta version. As far as i understand the trick behind this is to use a database such as mySQL, Acces.

Last year we used FileMakerPro, but this year we are going with PHP and mySQL, it is really powerful and much easier to program. mySQL has many built in functions such as average, sorting, ranking e.t.c so it makes it very easy. My Scout Leader and another Scouting member are really good designers and the whole layout looks very nice. It works like a charm too. we are currently beta testing it.

I also know that 491 and 492 have implemented some great scouting programs. However, if you are new to databases use something like FileMaker pro, or even excel. Start low and then take you skills higher with time. Any questions are welcomed.

[trdragons204]

Does anyone have a microsoft word scouting form?
Our team would like to use it to help with strategy.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by trdragons204

Does anyone have a microsoft word scouting form?
Our team would like to use it to help with strategy.

Try Excel. If used properly, Excel can give you a table to enter data into and a way to figure out which team is best for you. We have one, but it is not in its final form yet.