pic: 254 Presents: Cheesy Scout

[NickE]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

I'm going to be annoying and ask more questions , but how does the system deal with inconsistencies in data? For example, if 30 people made data about team XXXX in match Z public, but some people say that they scored 6 triangle tubes and some people count 7. Is it some sort of average? Likewise, this scenario can be applied to some of the more qualitative responses. Do it take the most popular response?

Qualitative: It takes the most popular response.

Quantitative: It breaks down the data scouted into matches. For each match, it averages the data to get a score for that match. This score gets averaged with the scores for all the other matches to get an overall score.

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Could I have my team (Mechanical Mayhem, #1519) added to the team list? I signed up, but currently have "No Team" association.

You can sign up your team here.

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

To give you video, should we just separate the video into individual matches? I wish tba would allow users to upload video (or link to youtube)... will you be doing that or having people send video to you? If people do it by themselves there is a concern with uploading spam or linking to random youtube videos... although with an account "misconduct" could be tracked and removed with relative ease

Yes, it would need to be split up into matches. If you are serious about uploading video to the system, PM or email me.

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Could I have my team (Mechanical Mayhem, #1519) added to the team list? I signed up, but currently have "No Team" association... Thanks a bunch!

We really love our own team's scouting database, but this system provides interesting opportunities... It certainly is high-quality and tracks most of the same data we do!

I like the idea to store video most! I will do my best to take video of all the matches of Granite State this weekend - the only good video in my opinion is full-field high-quality video! Do you think I should try to get the drivers' station (HP, more importantly) in view too? To give you video, should we just separate the video into individual matches? I wish tba would allow users to upload video (or link to youtube)... will you be doing that or having people send video to you? If people do it by themselves there is a concern with uploading spam or linking to random youtube videos... although with an account "misconduct" could be tracked and removed with relative ease.

Great job, 254! I'm sure this will help dozens of team have a good scouting system and likely be as valuable a repository as tba for all teams!

Nathan

Personally I'd like to see you upload them to youtube.
It would help to make the videos more universally available.


Also on another note, the FMS posts to the FRCFMS twitter feed. This may be easier to parse than the first website. Also the data is more current.... a friendly tip from a competitor

[Lil' Lavery]

Anyone know if Sovereign Bank Arena has added wifi? Last time I was attended the NJ regional, there weren't any internet options. I wanted to give this a brief test on Saturday, but don't have a smartphone to tether my laptop.

[MathFreak]

But from here we can't get datas of the other teams which haven't competed yet...

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by MathFreak

But from here we can't get datas of the other teams which haven't competed yet...

If a team hasn't competed yet, data on them doesn't exist, so of course it isn't available through this system. Looking at some of the week 1 data, there isn't much available for team that have competed so far either. Maybe we'll see more teams using the system and making their data public in week 2.

[NickE]

CheesyScout is updated for Week 2 Regionals: San Diego, Florida, WPI, Lake Superior, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, New York City & Waterford District.

Team 254 will be running full scouting for San Diego.

[ttldomination]

Hm..I noticed that the Week 1 events, and Week 1 teams are not shown anymore. Does this also mean that all data for week 1 is gone?

[Bill_B]

Is anyone using this system this weekend? I'm seeing match results posted, which might be derived from FIRST site's data, but no scouting has been shared, I think. However, I'm still not sure I'm logged in properly, so, massive shrug from me. I was going to try entering scouting data based on live feed observations simply to see how it went.

[NickE]

254 is scouting San Diego

[acrease77]

could you have matches from previous years too? so next year have a year selection if people wanted to watch 2011 matches kind of like bluealliance

[GarrettF2395]

Will Cheesy Scout be receiving a re-hash for the 2013 season?

[NickE]

Originally Posted by GarrettF2395

Will Cheesy Scout be receiving a re-hash for the 2013 season?

There are no plans to run Cheesy Scout this year. Although we had quite a bit of use in the initial pilot season, there was not enough use last year to justify keeping it up and running.

There are some very similar programs which came out more recently than Cheesy Scout including 1538's Cow Scout which might be worth looking into. If anything changes, we'll be sure to let you know.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by NickE

There are no plans to run Cheesy Scout this year. Although we had quite a bit of use in the initial pilot season, there was not enough use last year to justify keeping it up and running.

To provide more context, we've moved on to using a lower-tech scouting solution internally, which is why we haven't been updating Cheesy Scout.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

To provide more context, we've moved on to using a lower-tech scouting solution internally, which is why we haven't been updating Cheesy Scout.

I am curious, what 'lower-tech solution' have you guys settled on?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by dcarr

I am curious, what 'lower-tech solution' have you guys settled on?

Paper forms input by one person. Pat can elaborate more as it's his project, but this year he's created scantrons for the kids to fill out.