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Originally Posted by artK
I'm not suggesting looking at the pits at all.
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"Why not just not get data points that you can't verify in the pit?" Guess you're a stereotypical English-challenged engineer; that's a multi-negative and an unclear prepositional reference in the same sentence. What I initially read was something more like: "Why not just get data points in the pit that you can verify?" If I could rewrite the initial statement to what you meant: "Why not only get data when you're pit scouting that you can't verify on the field?"
And if that is what you meant, then my response is: What data do you mean?
Just about any key data point that you could pick up in the pit--like the ones you mentioned--can also be picked up on the field, given time. The biggest difference is that if you get it in the pit area, you might get it faster (given that teams don't always play all their cards on the field at any one time).
That being said, I'm sure there are exceptions to that: inter-team dynamics, and what improvements they're planning on (or can be persuaded to adopt), are two of the ones that come to mind. Oh, and the all-important one for a top seed: What the odds of them accepting your selection are...
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