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Originally Posted by magnets

I don't want to get into the disaster that is scouting on our team, but trust me, pure objective data isn't what we want.

There is usually only one student who cares enough to go through the objective data (the drive coach), and he is mostly ignored. If we aren't going to do anything with the data, why bother? The subjective stuff can be helpful to the drive coach for planning match strategy, but the objective stuff is usually inaccurate when we have the same two students scouting all matches of the competition.

Our (terrible) strategy for when we seed in the top 8 is to pick our first team based on what the team's (or team next to us) general opinion for the best team is, then ask our first pick who to pick next.

Sounds like the first thing you should work on is not ignoring your drive coach. I mean this with the utmost sincerity, since the drive coach is one of the most important people on your team. Help the drive team be more prepared (they will know what information they want), and this will pay off much more than spending all of your scouting efforts getting subjective views on the robots.

I know it's hard with only two people, but this is my best advice.