Scoring spreadsheet

[Raymond Sheh]

Hi All!


I'm looking forward to seeing all of your scores from today's runs!


I've received a question regarding the normalization process. In short:

- Each setting of an apparatus is considered a separate test. For
example, the labyrinth flat is a separate test from the labyrinth with
K-rails.

- In each test, each team (well, configuration) receives 100*(their max
score in that test)/(max score out of all teams in that test) points.
This means the team with the highest score in that test receives 100
points.

- The points are added up across all of the tests and then multiplied by
your normalized Updated TDM score to yield your total preliminary score,
which is used to decide who goes to the finals.

- For best-in-class autonomy we repeat this but only with scores
received autonomously. Note that we recompute your max score for a given
test for this so if you expect to score very differently autonomously vs
teleop, you're welcome to run the same test twice, once in teleop for
the championship and again autonomously for best-in-class autonomy.


(This is one of the reasons why we've been a bit careful with
combinatoric blowup off the different settings/tests and tried to make
sure we have an even distribution of tests across the different
challenges areas - terrain mobility, obstacles, dexterity, sensing -
because we're adding up points, having too many settings for the one
apparatus will mean that apparatus gets emphasized.)


To make life easier, I've created a spreadsheet that does all this
calculation for you - see
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZmTPSzMHSCByCcaazHcEpEYlAFAdWzFIdZGLvCMtc7k/edit?usp=sharing
. It's world-commentable but only your competition leads (Amy/Erick/Kam)
can edit it, to avoid too much confusion.

Of course you should also have access to the raw scores and can recreate
these calculations yourself. I encourage you to do so and check our math!

(And if you find something in the spreadsheet you don't think is right,
please also tell us - it means we either made a mistake we need to fix,
or we need to clarify something!)


Cheers!

- Raymond

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