pic: Scouting Teaser

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by lineskier

Thanks! Yup, we'll be there! Yeah, I'd be interested to see what you came up with too. The application was done in Flex [ sorry iOS ], It allows me to move all of my processing onto the client side which helps to cut down on server costs also it cuts development time in half, which helps me to deliver solutions faster. Also it lets me do some pretty complicated processing, a new picture will be posted here soon showcasing this. Where OPR is nice, I though it would be interesting to see a team's contribution match by match. So I created a little algorithm to do just this.

We will probably, at BAE, still have our scouting done via web forms on smartphone/mobile devices, and then processing the data locally on my laptop. (darn job getting in the way of me spending the 100 hours or so I need to finish this the way I want!) Graphs and analysis will be displayed using DHTML- or Flash-based dashboards. My plan is, however, by the time we get to our week 3 regional, the database and all the calculations will be done on a Linux server and the dashboards will all be iOS based. We have 2 iPads now, and several people have iPhones and iTouchs as well.

I messed around with an algorithm to calculate a team's contribution by match during Lunacy, but could never get it to work consistently. I had a huge matrix to do the calculations, based on a modified BCS algorithm, but it would only give me good data when every team had been in the same number of matches - so I gave it up! Last year was a whole lot easier to calculate! I would love to see your approach to that calculation sometime.

See you at BAE!