Looking for suggestions!

[timothyb89]

Originally Posted by Siri

Again, I'm not a programmer, but in a way it is. In the elimination match results section of each FIRST event page, the quarter-finalists are the teams that play in the QFs but nots the SFs, and the semifinalists are those that play in the SFs but not the finals. Of course, this gets complicated if there's a replacement bot. (I guess you'd need to look for alliance sets that share teams, rather than that are exactly the same. I have no idea how to do that.) Back before I discovered the wonder was is 1114's scouting, I used to to this by hand. It might be an interesting project if you're up for it, but I have no idea what it entails technically. Good work, regardless!

Figuring that out should be an interesting project! I've heard 1114 does it by hand, but hopefully we won't have to resort to that (I'm no fan of manual data entry!). At the very least I'll make sure to add in a "farthest point" stat for teams (ie, "this team finished at the qualifications/quarterfinals/etc").

Originally Posted by EricH

Final standings are typically available. However, you can't go to the team's page for it--go to the event pages and hit the "standings" link for the event you want.

For example, the San Diego standings are at http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/eve.../rankings.html

Also note that there are links on that page to match results, match schedules, and awards. These links just might become your new best friend... TBA scrapes these pages for their data, I believe.

I just added that in last night- we have a clone of FIRST's pages with that data up now (such as this one). Now we're just looking for something interesting to do with that new data!
(Those pages are actually where we collect all of our data- a great resource put up by FIRST!)

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I don't know what you do differently than TBA other than give me OPR averages, which aren't very accurate anyway. If you're going to do that, at least also list Highest OPR and Last Event OPR too.

Just added in highest OPR. Not sure what you mean by 'Last Event OPR', though... could you clarify that?

We've got some things TBA doesn't have yet (mostly OPR/other stats and standings at this point), although admittedly not too much. But over the summer we'll be adding lots of new features to help justify the db's existence .