Electronic Scores

[DawgPhan]

Interesting. I'd not heard of this "contract to analyze". Can you share more information thereon?

As for scraping results off the KCBS site, that doesn't help, because again there is no Team ID number shown. Having that unique identifier is of paramount importance; without that you have to do so much manual work matching team names that any gains from importing data are completely lost. Same thing for OCR - if you can't trust the data accuracy, it's no good.

Thanks for your comments Jorge. It's helpful to have an inkling of what's going on behind the scenes at KCBS.

just think of all the awesome dashboards that will be built @ $250/hour that no one will look at more than a handful of times.

 

[Smoke'n Ice]

If you look at the results for pork, ribs, and chicken, you will find that the same five tables had 'double' entries: 10-12 per table. Clearly not a data entry error, but either something in the renumbering code or 5 original table numbers were repeated.

At a huge contest like the open, some tables getting four entries will happen. You don't know how many entries will be turned in, so it is impossible to distribute 5 or 6 entries to each table unless you hold a good number of trays until the end.

So what you are saying is either the software has bugs in it that prevent it from functioning properly creating minimal trust in any results from any contest or some of the judges at the royal got more than their fair share of cooler goodies

and also had full bellies from 12 small bites per category

 

[Gowan]

just think of all the awesome dashboards that will be built @ $250/hour that no one will look at more than a handful of times.

Hey, my rate is $90/hour for ASP.NET programming. I can save KCBS a bunch o' money!

 

[DawgPhan]

Hey, my rate is $90/hour for ASP.NET programming. I can save KCBS a bunch o' money!

You are worth more than that, but I am sure you could save them a ton of money.