Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4

[MarkoRamius1086]

That and off-season events from this past year. From what I can tell IRI has been in the books for awhile, but not this past year.

$0.02

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by OverdriveAdge

Would it be possible to add FTC and maybe even FLL teams to the database?

FTC seems reasonable, but FLL teams change every year which would make the upkeep harder.

[MarkoRamius1086]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

FTC seems reasonable, but FLL teams change every year which would make the upkeep harder.

Very good point, considering theres upward of 17,000 FLL teams in the world, and they re-register every year. I can only name two or three teams in Virginia that have kept their names over a number of years, two out of approximately 500 (VA/DC FLL is the largest FLL Region in the world, with the State Tournament hosting 97 Teams! ). This plus the fact that coaches and members cycle dynamically over the years.

[mwtidd]

Team Heatmap in the continental US:

Generated using TBA API and Google Maps.

Unfortunately takes about 5 minutes to load all the lat/long's from google....

I am going to store all of them for my own use, but i think others may find this useful from the API stand point.

also throwing up a crossdomain.xml file so as3 applications can utilize the api.
(right now I'm using a java backend to make calls to the api, I would much rather do this client side)

[goffchris]

How about a system of user ratings? Kind of like the stars on Amazon. Perhaps there could be a rating system for things that are not reflected in the official stats. For example, Teamwork, Robot reliability, Gracious Professionalism, etc.