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Re: Strategy Sub-Team

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
That's kind of the point of the "detector". If you aren't at least looking in the pits, it's kind of odd... but it's not that hard to find a team that is using favorable numbers when you do.

My opinion on pit scouting is actually a bit different than most people's. My personal opinion is that it's NOT about the robot when you're scouting in the pit. The only thing you do with the robot is to take a picture (remind the field scouts what this robot looks like), and maybe note what work is being done. The TEAM is far more important, in terms of getting to know them. Let the match scouts collect the data on whether the team works on the field: if two teams work well together and are good friends, and both have decent robots, look out in eliminations if they're on the same alliance.
I'm not suggesting looking at the pits at all. My opinion about pit scouting is: get a good picture, get a look at the drivebase (just to get an idea of what there driving might look like), record important dimensions (can the robot fit under a pyramid, does it drive long or wide when balancing). It got all the information we could want that match scouts usually can't get by watching a match, without any risk of memory biases being introduced into your data, and was relatively simple (a championship divisions worth of pit scouting could be kept on like 4 sides of paper).
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