Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

Either 6 (one per team) or 7 (one per team plus one compiling data).

I hate to link you elsewhere, but I have a pretty good description of what our team scouts for, with examples, on our team forums. It took a while to type up, so you can find it here. There's also a bit of discussion about a weighted ranking system below the main post on what to scout for and how to record it.

Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

I want to have 12 people scouting from our team, but we're too few (20 members overall, 4 of them Drive Team, 6 Pit members, which leaves us with 10 people to scout).

Our mentors want us to be 6 people, saying scouting the PS isn't important since teams can change their PSs (which is true) and there's not too much strategy to think or counter when it comes to the PS. I say other.

They say we don't have the members, and I agree, and I sugested to have some help from another team by having a collaberated scouting system and work together.

It has some of its disatvantages (They know what we know) and advantages (you can have enough people to do rotations between the people responsible for scouting so people don't get tired watching games for 6 hours straight) and my team seems to be too suspicious.

So for now, we're 6. Hope we'll be able to get a good enough strategy from robot info only. :(

Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

I'm incharge of scouting this year, so i want 12 people to scout, but mostlikely i'll only get like 4... Tryed for 6 people in TC
got 2.

Hopefully a new scouting system, and more laptops involved will get us more accurate scouting info.

Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

At Buckeye, we had a scouting collaboration between four teams (461, 829, 1646, 1747). One person printed projected match sheets for all the teams from a database laptop, and twelve other people worked with six laptops (half scouting human players, half scouting robots). The laptops each scouted using a 21 Kb Excel sheet, and these were transferred via Filezilla to a folder on the database computer. For Boilermaker, we are adding several more teams to the scouting collaboration, so we're probably going to add an extra person to each laptop (scouting the trailer).

Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

But what about the teams (such as ourselves) who have a specialized human player (high shooting percentage) and a strategy based around getting our HP super cells. I think finding a consistently good HP could be vital to strategy in elimination matches. Even more so if they are paired up with a robot that can deliver them 2 empty cells.

Re: How many people are scouting each match on your team?
 

What I have found helpful for this year is to have my whole team minus the drivers and pit crew scouting (so about 27 students). We have 6+ (1 or more per team per match) people scouting each match, with me (the scouting head) overseeing the match as a whole. My scouters give me the match data on little sheets that I input into a VB scouting programming on my laptop (you may remember me from Traverse as the alliance captain with the laptop).

Also if I find that a team is of interest I put two or more people on that team and have them gather super data!