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Originally Posted by MARS_James
I would love an explanation on something that happened during Alliance Selections, Karthik said that Code Orange had Velcro on their scouting sheet can either he or someone from the team elaborate/show a picture of what he saw. The idea intrigues me but sound like a practicality nightmare and would love to know how they did it.
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Yes, as others have stated, Code Orange adapted this system from Gary Hedge and team #980.
For those wanting a more in-depth explanation, 3476's velcro board consists of several lines of velcro ("loop" side) on the inside of our Scouting Binder. Each team's number is printed out and glued to smaller pieces of velcro ("hook" side). The pieces are color-coded to provide another visual cue. For each year, we assign other visual markings to indicate "classes" or capabilities of robots. For example, we might have marked a 2013 5+ disk autonomous robot with a green "5" or a full-court shooter with a purple dot.
Teams are generally arranged "top to bottom, left to right" style. Sometimes teams possessing a certain attribute (say, goalie pole or exceptional defense) will be ranked in a separate column of their own.
The nice thing about this system is that it is extremely liquid. It adds a qualitative level to our quantitative data (and yes, before anyone asks, Code Orange does take qualitative data as well). For example, say that the head scout notices team #XXXX is scoring 50 points per match, but falters under defense. Meanwhile, team #YYYY is scoring 45 points per match, but consistently plays through defense. The velcro board allows the scouts to reflect observations that might not be quite as visible in the "hard data."
Since teams are removed after they are selected, it is also very handy to take a look at the board during Alliance Selections and see teams that might be slipping through the cracks. Yes, we have our "hard data" that we bring on the field for Alliance Selections too, to compare findings with our alliance partner and to make last-minute references.
It has worked very well for us the past three years.