[Coach Norm]

Originally Posted by Christian2443

Hi my name is Christian, and I am from team 2443. I was wondering if anyone in the curie division would like to team up for scouting. Being from Hawaii, it is very expensive to travel to attend the championships. The group attending championships is much smaller then the group that attended Hawaii Regional.

Our scouting system involves 3 sections.

1. Pre-scouting is where the team currently has a spreadsheet where we are inputting information about all the teams based on information we can find from robot reveals, blue alliance, and from match videos.

2. Pit scouting where we go to each pit to talk to the teams in person. In the conversation, we would talk with the teams to find out information that is still not clear or missing from our pre-scouting. (e.g # of Drive Motors). At the championships it will be very difficult with such a short time on wednesday to pit scout, so by pre-scouting we reduce the time we spend talking with each team.

3. Match scouting we have 7-8 members in the stands where 6 of them watch one robot each. While a member is watching a robot, they must keep track of the goals the robot scored, shots missed, driver/defensive rating, assist, fouls, comments, etc.. They keep track using the match scouting packet meant for that team. Once the match is over, these members pass it to 1-2 members on the labtops where they input the data into our database. Once, it is on the database we use Tableau to analyze the data.

We have used this scouting system at both the Central Valley and Hawaii Regional this season. The data we have collected has helped our team in matches, and also when deciding who to select during alliance selection.

If anyone is interested in working together to scout, then please PM me.

We are using the FRC Scout app with our team. If you would like partner or set with us, we might be able to work something out.