[FRC Blog] Audience Displays and a Favor

[TJP123]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Here's another observation, and this might just be me.



As I'm watching the Palmetto webcast, I'm inclined to read the blue bars (and the blue tower #) as "This is what the blue alliance has accomplished so far", since it's on the same side of the screen as the blue team numbers.

However, now that I've watched matches for a bit, I understand that the blue bars mean "strength of blue Outer Works, as done by the red alliance" - same with the tower.

Did anyone else get the same confusion at first, or am I just really bad at reading the display?

Now it makes sense. I was wondering how Blue had so few points after crossing so many defenses, and red had so many after just one. I thought they were just putting up dummy scores and graphics.

I can read it now, but the other way is more intuitive to me.

[Drakxii]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Here's another observation, and this might just be me.



As I'm watching the Palmetto webcast, I'm inclined to read the blue bars (and the blue tower #) as "This is what the blue alliance has accomplished so far", since it's on the same side of the screen as the blue team numbers.

However, now that I've watched matches for a bit, I understand that the blue bars mean "strength of blue Outer Works, as done by the red alliance" - same with the tower.

Did anyone else get the same confusion at first, or am I just really bad at reading the display?

I just wished the team numbers and scores were flipped. I keep getting confused why the blue side defenses are so low but the score is so low.

Also dashes in the defense bars to divide them in to two.

Oh and I think there could be room for team names or at least short versions of them.

Finally just personally I wished the tower power was shown more graphically instead of just a number. Like an 8 dashed circle around the icon or the icon empties as it's damaged.

[sdangelo]

I'd also like to point out that the little arrows indicating whether a team has moved up or down in the rankings are almost irrelevant this year. The rankings this year are based on metrics that can only go up, rather than averages that can rise and fall. That means that the only way a robot can possibly move down in ranking during a match this year is if a robot on their opposing alliance overtakes them. This seems to be pretty rare, and most (if not all?) matches that I've seen have ended with all the robots on both alliances rising in ranking.