[New Lightning]

First to cover a few things on this thread. Using Google spreadsheets while not at an event could be a useful tool; however, since most events will not allow you to run your own WIFI, using Google spreadsheets is not a viable option while in the stands. Secondly for the person that asked, yes Scouting apps, many teams develop their own or use ones published by other teams. There is a whole thread on this topic Scouting the Scouting apps.

Secondly what has been mostly ignored is that in order to get the best data possible there needs to be a mix of both qualitative and quantitative data. Having one or the other is a very limiting factor and you may miss a key aspect of a certain robot that makes it either a great choice, or a horrible choice. That being said if your understaffed and you have to pick one over the other go with the quantitative. Quantitative data is unbiased and irrefutable. What did a team actually did, not what can the robot potentially do, not what the team said there robot can do, quantitative data tells you exactly how the robot performed. While qualitative data/ gut scouting is by no means bad there will always be some elements of human bias in this thinking and that can lead to problems when making a pit list and selecting people on the filed.