FRC Spyder 2014?

[peetam22]

Hey I was looking at spyder and match 78 scores from the Orlando Regional are in but none of the teams from either alliances have been updated. All matches after that one have been fine though. If this could please get fixed, we'd all greatly appreciate it

[peetam22]

Never mind, it fixed itself

[OWilliamson]

So I was playing around with this app today, specifically with adding favorite teams. I went to check out the favorites tab, and what did I find but "Teh Chezy Pofs"

I'm not sure if it was intentional somehow or not, but I was only able to get it to show once. Regardless, it definitely put a smile on my face today

[pyroslev]

Used it at our event.

The prediction system needs, shall we say, A LOT of work. If you can figure out a way to tap into NI Parkway and watch that for team requests that would help. In one match, the winning alliance predicted all had serious issues that were in the Parkway system.

Other than that, great as usual.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by pyroslev

The prediction system needs, shall we say, A LOT of work. If you can figure out a way to tap into NI Parkway and watch that for team requests that would help. In one match, the winning alliance predicted all had serious issues that were in the Parkway system.

The prediction tab is purely a mathematical model; it sums up the OPRs of each team and uses that as a match score. It's far from perfect and may even be useless, but we're just presenting the data and leaving it up to the user to decide what to do with it.

I have no idea what NI Parkway is, it sounds like a local way to keep track of teams that are having robot issues. Tying into that is far from Spyder's realm, we deal with published match data from FIRST.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by OWilliamson

So I was playing around with this app today, specifically with adding favorite teams. I went to check out the favorites tab, and what did I find but "Teh Chezy Pofs"

I'm not sure if it was intentional somehow or not, but I was only able to get it to show once. Regardless, it definitely put a smile on my face today

EJ must have hacked your phone. Actually, it was probably that Pat Fairbanks guy.

[Joe Ross]

Is anyone having issues with Spyder on Newton? Not all teams are showing up. It was working earlier today.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Is anyone having issues with Spyder on Newton? Not all teams are showing up. It was working earlier today.

Yeah, me too. But the field isnt showing rankings either on matches. I think they had to reset everything and when a team plays now, they are being re-added into the rankings. Just give it a few more matches and everyone should be back.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by dodar

Yeah, me too. But the field isnt showing rankings either on matches. I think they had to reset everything and when a team plays now, they are being re-added into the rankings. Just give it a few more matches and everyone should be back.

It's fixed now. They updated it during lunch. FMS wasn't updating properly.

[Dave Flowerday]

As a preemptive warning, FIRST's data feeds are broken and this is why FRC Spyder isn't updating. Someone at FIRST appears to be editing their result HTML pages using Microsoft Word (!) and this produces a different HTML structure than their normal pages. Since FIRST does not provide the data in a clean API format, we're forced to scrape the data from their result pages and parse it. When they publish data using Microsoft Word, Word changes the layout of the HTML which makes it incompatible with our data parsers.

Unfortunately we are extremely busy supporting the VEX Robotics World Championship and don't have time to tweak our data parsers to deal with the changes FIRST has made.

Maybe someday FIRST will get this right and provide the data in a way more suited for app consumption.

[blockhead]

I second the post above. It is very frustrating that FIRST doesn't provide better tools for these third party sites like The Blue Alliance and At The Control. Obviously they want these sites to exist!