Team 768's Scouting Beta

[tjcasser]

Actually, I don't feel bad at all - those are legitimate points. I'll try to address them.

* Export - I just, honestly, haven't had time yet to build a CSV exporter. (The import function was introduced literally on Tuesday, when my brother-in-law pointed out that it would be helpful.) In the interim, when you save, it puts the files into c:\FRC2007 (in separate subdirectories for matches, regionals and teams), so that could be copied to a thumb drive for backup as a poor-man's solution until export is finished.
* Merging - Again, it was brought up, but we haven't had time to get around to it. This would require a bit more work, but is something that is under development as a necessary item.
* Photos - I have that on my plate for Saturday, once I get back from Trenton. (We're taking our drive team up for just tomorrow, as our first regional is Finger Lakes in a week, but we wanted to see some game-play.) That's actually easy, and we just need to set up the GUI to accommodate it.
* Sliders - I'm not quite sure what you're meaning by this - if you could explain what you're imagining, we can see how it could be accommodated.
* Graphical Scoring - Actually, I thought that would have been neat to have. It was not implemented due to lack of time, but...

The Quality Points and Ranking Points are actually straight from the manual, believe it or not - they're how rankings are done for the seeding. Quality points are 2 points for a win, 1 for a tie. Ranking points are: Winning team gets the losing team's score (without penalties), losing team gets their score (with penalties assessed), and teams in a tie situation get their score (with penalties assessed).

Also, in case you did not realize, you can click on the table headers to resort the data based on the columns. (And yes, if you hold down the control key, you can sort based on multiple columns.) We've been using this to emulate the seeding due to our not having a 'standings' algorithm yet.

Plus, one other thing - I realize it could get 'messy' with multiple regionals in there. There is an option under the file menu (File -> Options) to filter based on a selection of regionals. The Quality Points and Ranking Points do update to reflect the matches for the selected regionals.

I hope that answers some of the questions.