# Robolyst

> An archive of FIRST Tech Challenge competition results (every team, event, match, award and
> derived scouting metric on record), plus a free season toolkit teams use to run themselves.
> Operated by the Robotics Catalyst Foundation.

Data is computed from published FIRST results. Scoring records are penalty-free (an alliance's
penalties are awarded to its opponent, so raw finals overstate what a team earned), and OPR-style
metrics are fit per event over qualification matches only.

## URL patterns

- Team: /team/ftc/{team_number}, plus /matches, /stats, /awards. Past seasons at ?season={year}.
- Event: /event/{season}/ftc/{event_code}, plus /rankings, /matches, /teams, /awards.
- Location: /location/{state-or-region-slug}/ftc, plus /teams, /events.
- Season: /season/{year}/ftc
- Rankings: /rankings/ftc/{season}
- Records: /records/ftc/{season}
- Awards: /award/ftc/{award-slug} and /award/ftc/{award-slug}/{season}

Seasons are named by their starting year: the 2024–2025 "Into the Deep" season is 2024.

## Reference

- [Reference hub](/ftc): what the archive holds, and the URL shape of every page in it
- [Glossary](/ftc/glossary): one-line definitions of every FTC term this site reports
- [Scouting metrics](/ftc/scouting-metrics): what every computed number means and how it is derived
- [OPR](/ftc/opr): the least-squares estimate of a team's offensive contribution
- [OPRc](/ftc/oprc): the constrained, penalty-free, section-wise estimator Robolyst ranks on
- [Record book](/records/ftc): the highest alliance score of each season
- [World rankings](/rankings/ftc): teams ranked by average OPRc, season by season
- [Team directory](/team/ftc): every active team
- [Locations](/location): teams and events by region

## Live API for agents

Prefer these over crawling the HTML pages: they answer the same questions in one call, and the
tool descriptions state which arguments are event codes and which are team numbers.

- Documentation for both servers, including the tool list: https://robolyst.org/ftc/api
- MCP server, public, no account or token: https://robolyst.org/mcp/ftc: the whole archive.
  Teams, events, matches, rankings, awards, playoff brackets, advancement points, computed
  metrics, and an `explain_metric` tool that defines each one.
- MCP server, one team's own workspace, OAuth: https://robolyst.org/mcp: tasks, schedule,
  documentation, finance and announcements for the signed-in member's team, with the same
  permissions their account has in the UI.

## Toolkit

- [Features](/team-management/features): what the free team toolkit does
- [Guides](/guides): reading a game manual, strategy, build season, scouting, awards, sponsors, budgeting, running a team
- [Templates](/tools): sponsorship letters, budgets, pit checklists and an engineering portfolio outline

## Notes

- Remote-format events are excluded from every metric: they pit one team against an empty
  alliance, so contribution cannot be solved.
- Team pages exist for every number FIRST has issued; those without results in the last two
  seasons are marked noindex and are not in the sitemap.
- Sitemap index: /sitemap.xml
- Every guide and template as one plain-text file: /llms-full.txt