Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Greg, I think you guys need a ticker up at the top. Hours of video served (maybe displayed in days). Hours of video hosted. Calls made to FIRST website. And most importantly, hours of development (Maybe include a rough estimate of the cost if you were to charge for your services. I guess I would call that "useful" information.

I think this is valuable feedback. We don't do a good job logging right now in a way that gives us deep insight to people's interaction patterns. We should do a better job and make a public dashboard.

Originally Posted by Nevets Amstier

1) I think it'd be useful to have a simple page associated with each year that archives the game intro video, with a simple description of the game (scoring methods, penalties, etc..) as well as the teams/people who won NATIONAL recognition (nat'l chairmans, nat'l woodie flowers, Overall Winners, Overall Runner-ups, nat'l autodesk, nat'l safety vid, etc...)

I like this idea for each year's page. I think a "Welcome to Breakaway" page would be valuable throughout the whole season. Want to know about the 2011 FIRST game? Go to The Blue Alliance.

Originally Posted by GGCO

I don't care about The Blue Alliance. In fact, I don't even know what team/who runs it. I only use it to acquire data, so how about replacing the right sidebar full of links with that team's twitter feed, or other useful information.

I'd also LOVE to see a public api so I could write my own scripts to automate some of my team's scouting.

You are right that the right hand sidebar isn't very useful. It does link to the Developer API.

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Since you automatically get the information up on the page anyway, it would be neat if you could implement OPR for each year. That OPR could update as the new scores came in.

Likewise, it would be cool if people were able to post webcast links on TBA for given events.

If someone can write a Python library to calculate OPR scores, it would be much easier for us to implement. How long does running OPR math take? If it's very long, we'll have to think about it harder, but if we can get it to run in under 30 seconds, we can drop it straight in.

Webcast links is an awesome idea that we'll be sure to do.

Originally Posted by ProgramLuke

Any idea when this new TBA will be operational?

I think we'll have something people can play with by the end of October. In an ideal world, we'd have the basic site good to go by 2011 and mobile apps good to go by ship day. Unfortunately, we're dramatically understaffed.

Thanks for all your thoughts and ideas!
-Greg