DEWBOT VI Scouting
From DEW Robotics
Head Mentor(s):
- Foster Shucker
Student Administrators:
- Kenneth Au
- DJ Raman
- Ben Warner
- Douglas Moyer
Mentor Moderators:
- Foster Shucker
- Clem McKown
- Faith McKown
Contents
Introduction
For 2010 competitions, we wish to introduce novel scouting strategies and organization for better scouting and data collection.
Project Goals
- Touch up ActiveCollab
- Finish Camera System
- Create an Access database after kick off
- Develop new innovations for usage.
ActiveCollab
Camera System
Access Database
Twitter System
Old School
Helpful Resources
- Information: Team number, official name/sponsors, nickname, location, rookie year, motto, website, and all official events and awards since 2001.
- Details: Check "FIRST Robotics Competition" and select "2010 Breakaway". Un-check "Events" and "List Length (Max)" as desired. Hit "Show Results" and click "Team Number" to organize by team number. Alternatively, frclinks.com/t/
- Information: Team standings (rank, qualification matches played for seeding, seeding score, coopertition bonus, hanging points), match-by-match results, and awards sorted by event for most official events since 2005 and the Championship since 2003. Helpful for getting perennial success information, especially with Week 1 Regionals.
- Details: Scroll to bottom of page and select desired year and regionals and/or championship. Select regional or division's standings, match results, or awards. Alternatively, frclinks.com/e/[r for regional or c for championship]/[optional year] or frclinks.com/e/[optional matchresults, rankings, or awards]/[eventcode]/[optional year].
The Blue Alliance (TBA) Team Info
- Information: Team number, official name/sponsors, nickname, location, rookie year, some robot photos, and match-by-match results and total W-L-T from most official events since 2003.
- Details: Enter team number in box. From a team page, change the URL to next desired number.
The Blue Alliance Match Archives
- Information: Location, week number, and number of attending teams for official events back to 2003 the and 2002 Championship. Many match videos, though less in 2010 than other recent years.
- Details: Select year and scroll to week and regional (check videos column for archive availability). Select regional and scroll to match; select film strip to view on page (YouTube style) or arrow to download into QuickTime (temperamental).
Chief Delphi (CD) Team Photo Search
- Information: Provides team (robot, mechanism, anything uploaded to CD) photos and papers from all uploaded seasons. Also links to contibuter's usernames for further CD info.
- Details: Select "photos" or "papers" and enter team number(s) or "frc[team number]", booleans accepted. Alternatively, frclinks.com/cdm/[team number]
"FRC Links" Navigating USFIRST.org
- Information: Links directly to US FIRST, TBA, CD Media, pages (also Q&A and FIRST Forums) allowing for easy URL changing navigation.
- Details: Follow usage instructions on home page
Team 1114's Pre-Championship Scouting Database (link is to CD white paper page for .xls file)
- Information: Events attended; elimination finish, seeding score, qualification W-L-T, seed, percentile, draft position, and awards for each. Also event-by-event average offensive, defensive, seeding and contribution score values, ranks, and percentiles relative to event and world (and rank among champions for winners).
FIRST Chat Scouting
Note: This site is not as thoroughly updated as FIRST and TBA.
- Information: Team number, official name/sponsors, nickname, location, website, official events attending that season.
- In "Robot Information": Drive type, steering, transmission, chassis orientation, manipulator type and capabilities, autonomous capabilities, and photo. Note that this is team-provided and open to public editing. The default in 2010 is 2wd, tank, 1-speed, long, with autonomous disabled.
- In "Team Stats": qualification W-L-T, seeding score, coopertition bonus, hanging bonus and match-by-match results for covered events. Balls scored, final position, OPR, CCWM, penalties, DQs, and disablings for scouted events.
- Details:
- Sorted by Team: Select team number range and then team number or enter number in the "jump to team" box. Select "Robot Information" or "Team Stats".
- Sorted by Event: Select "Scouting" on the right-hand panel. Click the Regional or District drop down, type name or scroll to week and event as necessary. Click "Show Teams", click team number for team main page or "Stats" for team's stats that season.
- Information: Official events attended this season, total matches, total W-L-T, average win/loss average (#Wins/#Matches), average winning and losing scores, overall average score, biggest win and loss margins, and highest-ranked alliance partners. Event analysis (total matches, highest score and alliance, average winning and losing scores) in beta.
- Details: Enter team number or select event from menu and click "Analysis".
DEWBOT VI Databases
Pre-Competition Philadelphia Regional Database: The database used at the Philadelphia Regional on March 25-27 2010, including prior regional results and team information for attending teams, by Siri Maley. Does not include 1114's stats. Built from the US FIRST Team list, TBA team database, various CD forum post assessments, and previous 1640 competition experience.
