Quote:
Originally Posted by Solidstate89
Our scouting system is capable of that.
|
You're right, it is possible to construct a scouting system with the capabilities you described, and really good scouts can come close to perfect data. However, even the best scouts will sometimes disagree about exactly what happened -- especially with assist (possession) scoring and fouls this year. And of course what the scouts see often differs from what the referees see, so in many cases good scouting data is more valuable (for selecting alliance partners) than official scoring results. Scouts also have the advantage that they can review video, while referees are not allowed to do that.
My only point is that perfection in scouting will always be a goal beyond our reach, and that is especially true this year.
__________________
Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)