[Kevin Leonard]

Strategy is interesting, because I've seen so many teams run a "Strategy team" successfully in dozens of different ways.
The commonalities are:

• A well-trained scouting team that takes quantitative and qualitative data and puts the data in a format that is easy to interpret.
  
• A smart, strategic drive coach who knows how to make smart, split-second decisions on the field.
  
• An understanding of different factors contributing to alliance make-up and picklisting (consistency, standard deviation, scarcity, differences between quals, quarters, semis, finals, etc.)
  
• An understanding of the different ways to maximize an alliance's potential, or to consistently score at some threshhold.
  
• A team that understands what it takes to win and is willing to take whatever steps it takes (making robot modifications, playing the back-up robot and having your own team sit out, etc.)
  
• And perhaps most importantly, Gracious Professionalism at all times! No alliance can succeed without this, even if they have the best strategy and robots to back it up.