{"id":278,"date":"2009-03-21T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-03-21T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T14:26:43","slug":"buggy-times-32109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/03\/buggy-times-32109\/","title":{"rendered":"Buggy Times, 3\/21\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the Rolls Report, here at Buggy Alumni HQ we&#8217;re coming up with ways to feed your inner gambler. One way we&#8217;re doing this is by taking times at various spots on the course to give a cross section of team performance. Today we give you times from down in the chute: transistion to chute flag, chute flag to window 0, and a ratio of the first time over the second time. We recorded as many times as our crude stopwatches would let us. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=pfvAQrQOSG5eVJAFT5jWEZg\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s sampling<\/a>. It was a pretty slow day overall, with SDC and PiKA well off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>The ratio is a number we&#8217;re throwing out there to give some idea of how well the buggy maintains its speed in the turn. For example, Mirage came into the chute flag nearly 0.8 s faster than Psychosis, yet Mirage had only a 0.3 s advantage after the chute. Where&#8217;d the half second go?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll be looking at a different part of the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the Rolls Report, here at Buggy Alumni HQ we&#8217;re coming up with ways to feed your inner gambler. One way we&#8217;re doing this is by taking times at various spots on the course to give a cross section of team performance. Today we give you times from down in the chute: transistion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buggy-alumni-association","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}