I dont wanna ruin your hopes or anything, but what you are suggesting is nothing more that collecting numbers. Writing a chart of kill % of various attacks, the Aura boost equation, pikmin pluck % etc is a very simple task requiring only time, not much thought involved and anyone can do it. You would have to try things which actually involve research, not just a pen + paper writing down numbers. Things like the DDD grab losing 1 frame as it becomes stale, proving frame advantages and various follow ups against the cast is what research is all about.
And the importance of spacing vs marth tipper fsmash only applies to marth anyway. plenty of characters like DK, wolf work on a whole different type of spacing that doesnt involve standing in place, with bairs apporaches etc
Well then what do you suggest?
I was very prepared for not only a list of kill percentages, but also places where Marth's FSmash is easy to tip, the difference between tip kills and not-tip kills, how to best set up for a tip, and possibly pictures to accompany this.
Your argument that it "only applies to Marth" is flawed. Dedede's grab only applies to him and 3 other characters (the ones who are infinited), yet that was the very first thing we ever tried to research. The things you learn with Marth can also be applied to other characters.
A large part of what the smash lab is is gathering and analyzing data.
Knockback and kill percentages are just as important as frame counting, so what if they don't require video capture and de-interlacing equipment?
I read somewhere that one of the lab projects is getting the base knockback and growth rate for all the moves in the game. (In addition to frame data, frame advantages and stale move decay)
Quoted for truth. Unfortunately, not all of the people who long to be in the Smash Lab are also the owners of video capture equipment. Therefore, we do our best to help in the other aspects of the Lab, including kill percentages.
If there is someone like me in the Smash Lab, the people who DO have access to the video-capture, de-interlacing, and hacking equipment don't need to be bothered with collecting the data themselves for THEIR part of the research.