Mostly Done With FRCdle

Devlog #5

I am nearly done with FRCdle (finally). While Statbotics was down (it’s finally back up!), I essentially had to create “pseudodata” in order to properly test adding teams to the table.

Issues

I had a lot of trouble with async function timings. The async function I had fetching the data for a random team tried running at the same time as the async function that fetched the data for teams in an area. This caused an error in the former function since it was trying to fetch a team before it even knew what area to fetch it from. The fix was really simple: I added another useEffect that ran whenever the area data was fully pushed to its useState or whenever the difficulty changed.

Accomplishments

The difficulty calculation works. It takes the EPA rank and area (points) rank for each team in an area, scales them in reverse order (in an area with 75 teams, 1st place gets 75 points all the way down to 75th place which gets 1 point), and averages the two new point values with a higher score making a team easier to guess. For example, if the user selects California in easy difficulty, the randomly selected team might be 4414 or 254 since their scores are much higher than most of the teams in their district.

Next Steps

I can finally get the actual guessing portion of FRCdle done (I know I’ve been saying this for several devlogs, but I will actually do it now).