[MrForbes]

As an aside, you might also make sure your team scouts your own team's performance as objectively as you scout the other teams...then you'll see where you fit in, and you'll get a better idea of how other teams see you (assuming they are doing performance based scouting).

I talked with the scouting people on a couple of the higher seeded teams, they definitely were looking at the field performance of the other teams, and basing their alliance selection largely on that.