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FRC #0830 (The RatPack)
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Re: Advantages between scouting apps vs. sheets

Our team switched from paper to electronic over the last couple years, and the electronic system is far easier for everyone involved. Making the scouting form is now a fun side-project for programming (see this year's at https://github.com/FRC830/rr_scouting). The form is run on a laptop or tablet, and the results of each match are compiled into a .csv (comma separated value) file. That project also includes an excel spreadsheet with macros to import the .csv files and to compile them into a list of average values for each team. There are many other similar programs that teams have made publically available, some probably much more professional than ours.

I remember doing paper scouting, and it wasn't fun. Our team will probably be using electronic scouting for a long time to come.
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