Looking for suggestions!

[timothyb89]

Hey everyone,

We've been hard at work figuring out what direction FRC-DB should go, and I was hoping some people interested in FRC scouting would be willing to take a new interface we've been working on for a spin.

FRC-DB is a big database of event, team, and match statistics from the 2010 FRC season. It was intended as a tool to help with scouting, but we're hoping to expand it to include a lot more specific team info and robot details, and over the summer hopefully we'll add in data from previous seasons as well. However, in order to make it the best possible resource for everyone, we need to know what info everyone would like to have!

For reference, here's the 'old' interface: http://frcdb.net/
And the new one: http://frcdb.net/?new

Essentially, it's supposed to (aside from looking better) be speedier and work better with mobile browsers (iPhone/iPod browsers in particular). So what we specifically need to know is...

• what's better than the old version
• what's worse than the old version
• new feature ideas
• any other comments and suggestions

One of the other (more specific) things we're in the market for is other statistics to use. We've already got the usual (OPR/DPR, etc) but we're always looking for interesting new ways to look at match data.

Anyway, if you're up to it, take frc-db for a spin and let us know what you think! We're in the process of figuring out a definitive roadmap for its future, and hopefully with everyone's help we can improve it a lot!

-Thanks!
(PS: you can see some of the current ideas floating around over here and hopefully as specific tickets when we get a bit better organized)