[AcesJames]

On 176, we do the following -

We have 1 student per robot, and 1 student per HP, in the years that they have a hand in scoring.

On Friday, 12 students fill out sheets for 6 robots and 6 HPs, each match.
Friday night, the scouts organize the sheets by team. We usually have about 7 sheets per team, 1 for each round they were in.
We look at the top 24 teams in rank on the FIRST site, and we disregard ourselves.
We re-rank the teams based on how good they are, according to our scouters.
We then have a list of 24 top teams, in order from best to worst.
We then try to run through mock alliance picks, and form alliances from the 24 teams we've selected.
We then finally look at where our team sits between that, and whether or not it's likely we'll be picking.
If we find it's likely we'll be picking, we look for robots around us according to our rank list, and then form an alliance.
We create a list of a few possible first picks, and a few possible second picks.
The robots we choose are custom-fit to the strategy we have established, and they are listed best to worst in order of how well they play/compliment us.