FRC Wordle Clone Almost Complete

Devlog #3

I am (finally) almost done with the data fetching portion of “FRCdle.” I’ve been fetching data from both the Blue Alliance API and Statbotics API.

Annoying Issues (and Odd Solution)

I had to figure out how to fetch data for teams in the regional system from the Statbotics API. This API, unlike the Blue Alliance API, doesn’t have a designated method for fetching teams in this system (as compared to the district system which it does let you directly fetch data for). To circumvent this, I used the same endpoint the API uses to send district data. However, I kept the district parameter empty, thereby (mostly) forcing the API to return regional teams. Since this particular API request can only return 1000 teams at once, I had to fetch several times, increasing the offset by 1000 each time until the length of the returned data was less than 1000. This may not be the best development practice, but it is one of, if not the only way to get regional data from Statbotics (luckily it is much easier to get regional data from the Blue Alliance API).

Next Steps

I have to finish the API request for fetching all FRC teams. Next, I have to finish my difficulty calculations by taking in a team’s EPA rank within the user-chosen area and their area rank (points rank), scaling them from 1-10 (the higher the rank, the higher the number from 1-10), and then taking the average of the two new values. Lastly, I have to implement the wordle part of this game (guessing teams along with color indicators for how close a player is to the correct team).