iPhone App Released - FRC Tracker

[Tom Saxton]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Tom,
Thanks for writing this app. It was quite handy to check in on teams from other divisions to see how they were doing this weekend.

That's great to hear. Thanks for the feedback, and thanks to the other recent posters in this thread.

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

I did find one bug though: the way I was using it, I'd start at the "Teams" page, type in a team number in the search box, look at their match results, then back out a few screens and choose the "X" in the search box and replace it with another team # to look at it. After repeating this procedure for a few times, the search window would get messed up and would not revert back to the full team list after choosing the "X" in the search box. At that point, typing anything in the search box would not affect the results in the list below, which would still show the results from the previous query. The only way to fix this condition was to force-quit the app and restart it.

I have already fixed a bug that may have caused this behavior, but I'll try out that scenario to be sure.

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Other than that, it worked great. One feature request for future years that I have would be to include the rankings as well. That would be really handy, even if it was just a link that would open the rankings page from usfirst.org in the browser.

The issue with showing the rankings is that there isn't enough information available to compute the rankings correctly, and we really don't want to show inaccurate rankings.

In the version we are working on now, if no matches have been played by a given team since the last update for that event, then the ranking is shown. If the team has played matches, then FRC Tracker will update the win/loss/tie record, but not show a ranking. There's also a quick way to look at the teams for a given match (played or not) that shows all six teams' records and (if available) ranking.

Linking to FIRST's team standings page is a good idea. There are a bunch of links we want to put in, but we haven't started working on how to organize it.

If anyone has other ideas for how to improve FRC Tracker, we are open to suggestion. Feel free to post here or send us email directly at frctracker at idleloop dot you-know-what.