Gearhead Crossing: 2008 For realistic team data!
-Options- Home Sort View Teams View Matchs FAQs Login -Quick Jump- Select a Team: 27 33 47 48 63 65 66 67 68 70 107 117 120 123 128 201 217 222 226 240 245 279 280 291 306 308 313 322 326 337 357 375 379 406 451 461 469 470 494 503 522 548 573 830 862 894 910 1015 1023 1189 1216 1249 1308 1322 1549 1596 1646 1701 1708 1718 1732 1743 1747 1941 1990 1998 2050 2051 2079 2137 2163 2224 2237 2252 2279 2280 2407 2428 2544 2576 2591 2608 2612 2614 2618 2620 2627 2641 2644 2656 2673 2676 -Google Search-	FAQs: Why? Scouting, a lot have tried it, and many have succeeded in making systems that work for just their teams. GHX is different than most of what's out there because it allows the user to customize the sorting function to get only what their team needs based on the results collected by participating scouts. How This Works Every year a 'Game Year' is made within our MySQL database. This game year defines the Match and Robot variables that we are going to be tracking along with any notes we want to keep about the Game Year in general. Such as a synopsis of the game rules. Within each game year Venues are added, which in themselves, contain Matches. Each of these inharate the variables from the 'Game Year'. Scouts can then edit any information about the matchs and the Venues based on what they find out through scouting. Teams also have robots every year and to compensate for ever-changing requirements of the robots, a Robot is made every year within the database for each team present, and the scouts can record this information as well. Once all of this information is recorded, the real point of GHX becomes apperent. Any team that can access the internet can access the information and sort the data based on the variables set up at the begining of the year. Each team can also 'weight' these variables based on the needs of the team. And these needs become even more appearent once the finals come around and the leaders have to choose teams whose strengths would best work with the strengths of their own team. Sort Help How do I search for my team? Under the 'Team #' column you should see a pulldown menu. if your team has compeated within a Venue that has been selected you name should be within the pulldown. Once selected the page will auto-reload showing just the results of your team. How do I do this weighting thing? Above each of the variables you should see a textbox with the number 100 in it: The equation for finding the score at the end of each row is score=     (input1*(theValueInBox_forInput1)     +input2*(theValueInBox_forInput2)     + ... ) This allows you to do several things: You could do a percentage system (This is the default). What I mean by this is you can set a variable to 'half importantance' by setting the box to 50% or '50'. Then if it has no importance for your team, set it to 0% or '0'. Another way is to do a simple rating system. Set the most important variable to n, where n is the number of variables. Then the next most important is n-1, then n-2, etc. You could also have it count the number of times a team preformed a certain option by zeroing out everything else and setting the needed column to 1. For example, Say I want to find out how many laps each team did. I would put a 1 above the column, and set all others to 0. Another option is to find each team's accumulated scored points. This is done by placing the point value for each given value above each column. How do I make a Pick-List? Well, another word for pick-list is a team-rating. To see this team rating, go to the pulldown menu directly underneath the pulldown for selecting the venue. There are two Options: Match Ratings: This is the actual sort function, it is what you see when you first go to the sort page. From here, set your weighing system, before continuing onto the next view. Team Ratings: This is the 'Pick-List'. It is found by suming all of the scores for each team for every match based on the weights you put on each variable, then they are ranked. I want to find out who was the best at {insert variable here}, how do i do that? This is very easy. Go to the column in which the variable in question is, and open the pulldown menu. Select 'Decend.', this will sort the rows in decending order based on that variable. What Can You Do? We would always like to have more information avalible for everyone. If ever you have a great idea, or merely want to provide us with content, here are some pre-guide-lines that must be followed. Video Content: we can't accept it, although it would be nice, we just do not have enough space on our servers to allow for excessive video collections. Pictures: they can either be team Logos, or team pictures of their robots. In fact at every regional we go to, we (after getting permission) take pictures of everyone's robot and provide it for everyone to view. Data: This is the most vital part of the whole system and of course we can't provide everyone with the privliges to upload information. So we provide you with this: The 2008 GHX Spreadsheet    This does exactly what the GHX website provides. Also included is some printouts that will provide your Team with the nessessary materials to set up your own GHX. Then Once your done, you can email our Administrator the finished files and we can upload the information. Please include team numbers and contact information for validation purposes.
Gearhead Crossing has not been sanctioned by FIRST This Data is not official and metrics generated by Gearhead Crossing are as accurate and complete as collected and provided by Scouts