paper: 2010 Team 1114 Championship Scouting Database

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Hmmmm... 1712 ranked 3rd in the C_DefC in Philadelphia. Interesting, very interesting.
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However, as awesome as they might be, they still aren't telling the full story and should be taken with a grain of salt. 1712 never once played defense in our qualification matches in Philadelphia (though we did in the eliminations, but those aren't factored in to 1114's CC). It's still quite possible that perhaps some of our strategies were more defensive oriented than other alliances' (though there were at least three matches where our alliance decided to forgo any defensive efforts). These calculated contributions are still subject to hiccups like this and biasing based on strategies.

Sean,

"Average Defensive Score" is actually not one of our advanced metrics. It's simply the average score of all the alliances a team faced in qualifying matches. So, a high Average Defensive Score means that the alliances you faced scored a lot of points. This year we ranked that stat in descending order on the theory that in a game with scoring that doesn't reward defense in the qualifying round, a team with a high defensive score was either consistently playing stronger alliances or consistently scoring for their opponent. Regardless, Average Defensive Score has no link to Calculated Contribution or OPR in anyway.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I do have one request, though. Is there any chance you guys can add in the Dean's list to a teams' profile? You list if a team won a WFFA award, so why not Dean's list as well?

We wanted to do this, unfortunately there were far too many gaps on the FIRST website. Most events displayed the winner of the award, but did not have team associated with the winner. We decided that it we couldn't list all the winners accurately, it would be better to leave the award out. (There were gaps with the WFFA's as well, but not as many and we were able to fill those with some Googling)