Thread: Advantages between scouting apps vs. sheets
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Re: Advantages between scouting apps vs. sheets
An easy, reliable system is just tracking the basics of quantitative data on paper, then inputting the data into an excel spreadsheet.

We were shortstaffed for scouting at IRI 2014, so all we tracked was successful high goals/attempted high Goals and successful trusses/attempted trusses.
That's all the information we really needed.

Lastly, while a fancy tablet system is cool to show off and uses less paper, if something goes wrong with programming or anything, the data is lost. Pen and paper scouting systems are infallible, even if your excel database explodes.
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