[XaulZan11]

I would actually do something a little different than some of the suggestions already posted. If I only had only around three scouts, I wouldn't focus too much gathering data. I think scouting an entire alliance will lead to missing too much data (bad/incomplete data isn't very helpful) and scouting one robot per match will lead to extremely small sample sizes. I would rather have subjective data from several matches than knowing a team stacked 5 totes in the one match and no idea what they did in the other five.

Instead, I would focus on making sure watch your upcoming alliance partners (and opponents in other year) in their couple of matches before you are with/against them. Try to become experts on these teams first. Still be aware of what some of the other teams are doing, but your main goal in qualifications should be to win every match (or have the highest average). Then, if it is looking like you may finish the in top 8 (or be picked early), then start really scouting teams that compliment your strategy.

On the whole, I think too many FIRST teams put too much focus on gathering, organizing and displaying data and not as much as actually using the data and learning how robot gets those stats. Way too often I talk with other scouts that can read a report about a robots average in ten different stats, but can't tell you one thing about the actual robot. It is pretty amazing how much credibility you gain in pre-match strategy if you come up to a team and say "I like what you did your last match doing xyz. You scored x points, right?". So, in this respect, not having a huge scouting team is not as detrimental as it may seem.