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Unread 11-01-2014, 21:47
Zmarken Zmarken is offline
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Re: In match Scouting ideation

This year, I think that measuring timing is going to be important.

Getting a high number of cycles is going to be important to get the most points, so you need to find out things such as how long it takes a robot to pass/receive, how long they take to position, and stuff of that sort.

If I had to make a scouting sheet right now, I'd have to go with...

Autonomous:
1) Position: Goalie zone/White Zone, as well as Left/Right/Center
(If in the White Zone)
2) Scoring: pretty basic, how many shots taken, how many points gained
3) HOT Tracking: can the robot track the HOT Goal?
4) Time to Shoot: How long the robot takes to shoot. Right away? The full 10 seconds?
5) Intake: Can the robot pick up balls if another alliance member is in the Goalie Zone?
6)
7) Mobility: Can the robot get the mobility bonus?
(If in the Goalie Zone)
8) Blocks: How many shots did it block?
9) Pathing: Does the robot just go back and forth, or does the robot track the other robots/balls?

Teleop
1) Shots on Goal: How many shots the robot had on the goal, and how many got in
2) Passes: How many passes did the robot do successfully?
3) Receptions: How many balls did the robot receive from its teammates?
4) (Combine with #3?) Catches: How many catches, either over the truss, or in general, did the robot have?
5) Zone: Is the robot a roamer, or does it stay in one zone? Also, which zone?
6) Cycles: How many cycles were completed? Also, how long did each cycle take? Number of assists per cycle?
7) Assists: How many assists did the robot have?
8) Time to Throw: How long did it take from receiving the ball, to pass it to another teammate? Also, were they waiting on the receiving robot?
9) Time to Receive: How long did it take the robot to get ready to catch? Also, were they waiting on the passing robot?
10) Time to Shoot: Same as in Autonomous, how long does it take to aim and shoot the ball?
11) Truss Throw: How many passes over the truss did they do?
12) Truss Catch (Combine with 3?) How many catches over the truss did the robot have?
(Now onto defense)
13) Time to Defense: How long does it take for the robot to switch to defense after passing the ball?
14) Passes defensed: Total passes blocked, deflected, etc...
15) Goalie Zone: Does the robot use the Goalie Zone, and if so, how do they block in it?
16) Disruption: How much does the robot disrupt cycle time of the other alliance? How much time can they drain by defending?
I tried to make it less subjective, and easier to just fill in without paying too much attention (I know the scouts on my team...) The hardest thing about this game, is that it's more about teamwork, so if you just go for points scored, you'll really only get good results from the one robot in the alliances scoring zone.

Again, I think that the time it takes to do a cycle is one of the more important things to check, especially breaking it down to how fast can you pass/get ready to receive/shoot.

Assists are also important, because even if you've got a slow cycle, if you're doing 3 assists and your opponent's only doing 2, they need to double your cycles to win.

Also, defense is probably one of the most important things in this game, because if your defense slows down your opponent's cycle time, that puts you at an advantage.

That's it for me so far.